» Google Buzz: Another attempt to harness the content firehose
09/02/10 20:31 from BetaNews.Com
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Rather than create another new destination social network like Facebook, Twitter or Foursquare, Google today announced that it has added social networking and location-based features into Gmail, Google Profiles,..
» Nvidia debuts new dynamically-switched graphics card technology
09/02/10 16:56 from BetaNews.Com
By Tim Conneally , Betanews The idea behind notebooks with switchable graphics processors is that the most common tasks are handled by the lower power integrated GPU; but should the user need more complex graphics, a discrete graphics proc..
» Success: Google\'s Nexus One shipping support line takes tech support questions
09/02/10 16:06 from BetaNews.Com
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews 11:35 am EST Tuesday, February 9, 2010 · In a test of Google\'s willingness to take customer concerns this morning, Betanews Editor-in-Chief Nathan Mook -- a new Nexus One owner himself who has not ..
» Google lowers \'unusually high\' early termination fee on Nexus One
09/02/10 14:24 from BetaNews.Com
By Tim Conneally , Betanews At the end of January, the Federal Communications Commission\'s Consumer Task Force launched an inquiry into the Early Termination Fees (ETFs) of the major wireless providers with a special focus on the Google Ne..
» Netgear and Ericsson introduce a mobile broadband hotspot with a twist
09/02/10 06:20 from BetaNews.Com
By Tim Conneally , Betanews We have seen a couple of mobile broadband hotspots come to market in the last year, the Novatel MiFi on Sprint and Verizon, and the recent Sprint Overdrive from Sierra Wireless. They\'re pocket-sized, battery-pow..
» Goodnight, moon: What I learned from a space shuttle
08/02/10 22:19 from BetaNews.Com
By Carmi Levy , Betanews Like many nighthawks across the continent, I found myself glued to more than one screen...all right, three. Plus my BlackBerry...as I watched this morning\'s launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. I observed the spe..
» Netflix to FCC: NBCU + Comcast could bypass net neutrality
08/02/10 20:02 from BetaNews.Com
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews In a world where Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski\'s six principles for net neutrality are enforced, everyone who makes a living on the Internet could conceivably be \"unburdene..
» Report: Streaming video drove 72% global increase in mobile data consumption
08/02/10 17:27 from BetaNews.Com
By Tim Conneally , Betanews A new study from subscriber management company Allot Communications today says that worldwide mobile broadband consumption increased approximately 72% in just the second half of 2009. Though the Federal Communic..
» Stymied by continuing Nexus One 3G issues, Google blames the environment
08/02/10 16:59 from BetaNews.Com
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews For the most part, last week\'s over-the-air software update to Google Nexus One phones, which was intended to address the 3G connectivity issues with certain versions of the phone\'s firmware (with a gift ..
» Microsoft Confessions: \'There were a ton of bozos\'
08/02/10 05:15 from BetaNews.Com
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Do middling, middle managers run Microsoft? That\'s the consensus among the former Microsofties who shared their work stories with me over the last couple months. The new work week starts with another Microsoft Conf..