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Google’s Gigabit Broadband Creates Serious Waves

March 9, 2010

When Google announced their intentions to deploy a gigabit broadband service, the entire U.S. stood up and took notice, and for several good reasons. Gigabit connections would put the U.S. back in the driver’s seat, and there are countless applications that could benefit from incredibly fast broadband connectivity. Online backups, video on demand services, video [...]

Google Kansas in, Topeka Out: The Capital City of Fiber Optics?

March 5, 2010

When Google announced plans for a groundbreaking fiber optic network that would offer broadband speeds of up to 1 Gbps directly to consumers, it turned more than a few heads. Google did not announce exactly where this network would be, and they were rather vague as to how many customers it would serve only offering [...]

TiVo Premier: TiVo Takes Their Game to The Next Level

March 3, 2010

TiVo has long since been a mainstay in the home theater arena, but their new release looks to take things up a notch or ten. Dubbed TiVo premier, the new version of TiVo includes some serious software tweaks and even some new hardware such as an eSata port and large internal hard drives. And, yes, [...]

Is Internet Censorship Inevitable?

March 1, 2010

One of the best things about the Internet is that it allows virtually everyone with a connection to have a voice, or almost everyone. Anyone who happens to live in a country with very strict Internet censorship guidelines may find that their voice is not welcome and that they may be cut off from the [...]

100 Mbps Broadband For All by 2020?

February 26, 2010

Broadband services have a way of leapfrogging each other in small increments. One providers offers 10 Mbps downstream speeds and 2 Mbps upstream speeds, and another comes out with a 12 Mbps/3 Mbps plan. The recession seems to have slowed this trend, and some cities have not seem the fierce competition that parts of California [...]

Windows Phone Series 7 Coming Soon

February 24, 2010

At CES 2010 it was clear that the future of mobile devices is about to change course in a potentially game-changing way. What was missing, and on the lips of many was the follow-up to Windows Mobile 6.5. Unfortunately, no Windows Mobile update was unveiled at CES 2010, but you know what they say about [...]

Sprint Selling 4G Phones and Services Nationwide Before Summer?

February 19, 2010

While the 3G wireless price wars are still red-hot, only a few companies seem poised for the next pricing and performance battleground: 4G. Surprisingly, Sprint is one of those carriers and the company is looking to make a preemptive strike by selling 4G phones and services soon. This does leave a few questions, however, some [...]

Verizon FiOS Customers Get HBOGO

February 18, 2010

HBO has long since been acknowledged as one of the industry leaders in providing excellent television, even if they do cancel some of their best series right when they start getting interesting. Instead of offering a moratorium for great shows such as Deadwood and Rome, this post is dedicated to an interesting use of the [...]

Google vs. China: Everyone Caught Inbetween

February 15, 2010

Google’s public confrontation with the powers that be in the People’s Republic of China are slowly cooling down, though the current lull may be nothing short of the calm before the storm. While attempts to examine the situation from both the perspective of Google and China have been attempted, the truth is that the situation [...]

Google vs. China: Understanding China’s Position

February 11, 2010

The recent clash between Google and China is starting to cool down to a low-simmer, but the entire world could be affected by the eventual outcome. Will governments be able to dictate to search engines the same way that they do to ISPs regarding copyright violations and pornographic searches performed by pedophiles? The ramifications could [...]

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