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Amazon cuts Kindle Touch 3G browser access

Chris Davies, Oct 3rd 2011 Discuss [2]

Amazon has quietly removed support for general web browsing over 3G on the new Kindle Touch 3G, only allowing the ereader's experimental web browser to use the WiFi connection rather than the bundled cellular data access. "Our new Kindle Touch 3G enables you to connect to the Kindle Store, download books and periodicals, and access Wikipedia - all over 3G or Wi-Fi" an Amazon official confirmed over the weekend, however "experimental web browsing (outside of Wikipedia) on Kindle Touch 3G is only available over Wi-Fi." Read The Full Story

Amazon Silk browser could hit PC, Mac and mobile

Chris Davies, Sep 29th 2011 Discuss [3]

Amazon may well be planning a version of its Silk browser for PC, Mac and mobile platforms, rather than just the Kindle Fire tablet announced yesterday, if domain name registrations are anything to go by. The retailer has gone on a URL spree, buying over 500 domains, but it’s registrations for “amazonsilkforandroid.com”, “amazonsilkformac.com” and “amazonsilkforpc.com” that have particularly caught attention. Silk uses a combination of caching and on-the-fly server-side compression to boost browsing speed on the Kindle Fire.

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Firefox 7 released with improved memory usage

Rue Liu, Sep 27th 2011 Discuss [4]

Mozilla released Firefox 7 today that promises to deliver a faster web browsing experience largely thanks to a much improved memory management system. The browser has always been more of a hog in that aspect and slow to boot in comparison to rivals, but that's starting to change. This new release should be noticeably speedier in several areas, including startup time, tab opening, and HTML5 content. Read The Full Story

AT&T acquires hotel Internet provider Superclick for $15 million

Cory Gunther, Sep 26th 2011 Discuss [0]

AT&T is after another large company and today we are hearing that they've acquired Superclick, the popular and widely used internet provider for many hotel and hospitality industries, at an impressive cash sum of approximately $15 million. Read The Full Story

FCC’s net neutrality to take effect November 20

Rue Liu, Sep 22nd 2011 Discuss [2]

The Federal Communications Commission will be publishing the net neutrality rules tomorrow, which will take effect starting November 20. The new rules barely passed last December with a 3-2 party-line vote, but have not taken effect yet largely due to continued opposition and the FCC dragging its feet on publishing them to the Federal Register. Read The Full Story

Schmidt: Google is in monopoly “area” but no Microsoft

Chris Davies, Sep 22nd 2011 Discuss [23]

Google chairman Eric Schmidt admitted to a US Senate antitrust panel that the search giant is “in [the] area” of a monopoly at a hearing yesterday, saying it had learned from Microsoft’s antitrust mistakes and insisting that the two company’s situations were very different. “We get the lessons of our corporate predecessors” Schmidt told senators, referring to previous antitrust complaints against rivals like Microsoft, but maintained that “one company’s past need not be another company’s future.” His argument was in sharp contrast to claims by Yelp and others, who accuse Google of squeezing out competition by prioritizing its own services in search results.

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Google argues antitrust while Yelp spills on search-skip ultimatum

Chris Davies, Sep 21st 2011 Discuss [19]

Google chairman Eric Schmidt has blamed sour rivals for the search giant’s current antitrust investigation, arguing instead that the company not only prioritizes users needs but has “helped generate $64bn in economic activity” for small businesses. Writing as part of his testimony for the Senate Judiciary’s antitrust subcommittee, the NYTimes reports, Schmidt points to the “truly vast array of options” for surfers to choose from, and reminds the government agency that “the cost of going elsewhere is zero.” However, one of the companies Schmidt namechecks, Yelp, maintains that the search company is “misusing Yelp review content”, releasing its own testimony before appearing before the subcommittee.

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Comcast rolls out $10 internet for low-income families

Rue Liu, Sep 20th 2011 Discuss [9]

Comcast has rolled out its Internet Essentials program that provides entry-level internet service at only $9.95 a month for low-income families. The service offers up to 1.5Mbps downloads and up to 384Kbps uploads and even offers a Windows 7 Starter netbook with internet and PC training for $150. Read The Full Story

IDC: tablets, smartphones to surpass PCs in internet use by 2015

Rue Liu, Sep 12th 2011 Discuss [9]

According to a new report from market research firm IDC, mobile internet usage on smartphones and tablets will surpass internet usage on PCs by 2015. The firm predicts that devices like the iPad, iPhone, and Android phones and tablets would grow at an average of 16.6 percent annually, while PC use would eventually decline as the tablet market picks up. Read The Full Story

Google Voice Added to Takeout Service via Data Liberation Front

Chris Burns, Sep 6th 2011 Discuss [0]

Today marks the first time that Google Voice data is available for download by you via Google Takeout, this adding to the ever-expanding ranks of Google-run services whose data you the users have contributed to on Google Takeout, a service which allows you keep that data for your own. In an internet-only ad spot, a group of Data Liberation Front users sit in a group and cycle through several different physical carriers of data, these being symbolic of the data you're about to have access to on Google Takeout. Read The Full Story

Google TV Inevitable, Eric Schmidt Says Why [Video]

Chris Burns, Aug 29th 2011 Discuss [4]

While we’ve all heard whispers of the mysterious entity known as Google TV over the past year or so, but just this week we’ve heard the main man, Google chairman Eric Schmidt, speak what he believes the future of the platform will be. Mister Schmidt spoke the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, speaking broadly to broadcasters all over the land, warning them not to be left in the dust as internet connectivity becomes the must-have of any television-like entertainment system of the future. Watch his entire lecture on the subject below.