An ambitious program to install satellite broadband links into long-haul commercial jets is taking off. Read more…
Archive for April, 2009
We’ve been down this path countless times, but rumors are once again heating up that Apple and Verizon are actively discussing the possibility of creating an iPhone to work on Big Red’s airwaves, according to USA Today’s infamous “people familiar with the situation.” Could the iPhone come to Verizon Wireless next year?! Read more…
This is one of the default background images included in Windows 7. Some of the others [ http://windows7-wallpaper.com/windows-7-rc1-wallpaper.html ] are even more screwed up… Read more…
“Microsoft’s model is not working anymore,” thundered trade journal InformationWeek. “Netbooks hammer Windows revenues for second straight quarter,” declared Greg Keizer of ComputerWorld, another respected trade weekly. – Also, trying to vendor-lock users to the IE browser by making web-apps that only work well with it, is a “Losing Strategy”. Read more…
Communications firms are asked to record all internet contacts to modernise police surveillance tactics in the UK. Read more…
Visitors are being asked to rate online which places in England, Scotland and Wales are the most scenic. Read more…
Firm surveys 5,000 users and finds the top 10 technology terms people find hardest to understand. Read more…
The reviews are in, and the just-released Ubuntu 9.04, i.e. “Jaunty Jackalope,” rates as a slick, fully-formed Linux desktop. Looking to get started or upgrade your system? We’re recommending 10 downloads for everyone to try. Read more…
Time Warner Cable’s data cap plan might be history (for now), but unpublished data caps live on thanks to the “acceptable use policy.” ISPs that continue to rely on ambiguous metrics for abuse had best tread carefully, as Comcast was sued last year by the state of Florida over that very issue. Read more…
$62,000 to download a movie? That’s what happened to a caller named Alberto, who told his data roaming tale of woe on the air to HLN “money expert” Clark Howard on CNN. Alberto made the grave mistake of downloading Wall-E… Read more…