Did you know Google search was available via IPv6 Internet connections at ipv6.google.com? I didn’t, and I’ve written about the move from IPv4 to IPV6 a bit lately. Which makes the search company’s most recent move, making YouTube videos available over IPv6 connections a little less revolutionary, but interesting nonetheless. Read the rest of this entry »
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Videos: The Google Nexus One story
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) posted the fourth in a short series of YouTube videos on how it made the Nexus One. The first three focused on the hardware and design, user interface and testing processes, while today’s video on manufacturing featured a tour of HTC’s facilities. The videos are a good part marketing, but also part real behind-the-scenes look with Google execs, including Android product manager Erick Tseng. Read the rest of this entry »
Super Bowl commercials tackle telecom (videos)
I know I’m not the only one who finds the commercials the best part of the Super Bowl each year. 
This year was no different.
I picked up on several themes – going pantless is the new black, men are easily emasculated and beer – just lots of beer. But the telecom and Web world got a lot of attention this year too (see the videos below the break): Read the rest of this entry »
T-Mobile’s perfect merger partner? Try AT&T
IPO and merger talks are again swirling around T-Mobile USA, the latest reports coming from the Wall Street Journal that parent Deutsche Telekom (NYSE:DT) is thinking about some sort of full or partial divestiture. So what would that mean for T-Mobile here? It depends on what approach DT takes. Read the rest of this entry »
Morning Rounds: AT&T developer conference; Skype-on-3G, Verizon’s iPhone wait; and more
January’s consumer electronics onslaught seems to be slowing down, with attention in February turning to Mobile World Congress in February and CTIA later in March.
Today, a note on an AT&T developer conference at the CTIA event — including what could be some of the first details about its Android plans — plus T-Mobile rumors, LTE patent pool talk and more. Read the rest of this entry »
Google PowerMeter and the customer-ownership question
The smart-grid space is attracting interest from all angles, including from Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and potentially even Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) building Web-based energy management tools. It might be too early to tell if these companies will shape this industry as they have others, but they are already attracting the interest of utilities, either in terms of how they can partner or how they can compete. Read the rest of this entry »
AT&T spends ‘more than some states’ on health care
AT&T spends $5.5 billion annually on health care for 1.2 million employees, retirees and their dependents, AT&T’s senior vice president of compensation, benefits and policy Mike Coffey told participants on a teleconference with health care executives yesterday. “That’s more than some states [spend on] Medicare,” Coffey said.
The teleconference, organized by AT&T, explored how technology can help control health care costs and improve patient care. Read the rest of this entry »
VZW draws gender lines with Droid, Palm Pre Plus (video)
Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ, NYSE:VOD) likes to avoid any confusion over which of its phones are for men and which are for women, so it lays it out for consumers in its commercials. First, it showed us why Motorola (NYSE:MOT) Droid belongs in the hands of macho men (unlike the iPhone, made for “clueless beauty pageant queen”). Now it wants you to know that Palm’s (NASDAQ:PALM) new Pre Plus is perfect for the modern woman. Read the rest of this entry »
AT&T has change of heart on SlingPlayer
After almost a year of controversy, AT&T (NYSE:T) announced today it would support the previously WiFi-only 
SlingPlayer Mobile application on its 3G mobile broadband network. AT&T said the decision came after the app was revised by Sling Media to make efficient use of the network bandwidth and tested by AT&T for the past month.
The wireless operator, who hasn’t made friends with many of its policies towards iPhone apps running on 3G, said that the decision was made easier given EchoStar subsidiary Sling Media’s willingness to work with AT&T on being more bandwidth sensitive and conserving “the finite wireless spectrum available to the wireless industry.” The app lets users watch their home TV on their mobile phone and costs Slingbox owners $29.99 in the App Store. Read the rest of this entry »
Nokia: Free Ovi maps downloaded once per second
Just one week after removing the price tag from its Ovi maps and navigation service, Nokia (NYSE:NOK) has hit the one million mark. According to the company, consumers have downloaded the service 1.4 million times, an average of one download per second.
Nokia executive vice president Anssi Vanjoki said that this growth rate is even faster than Nokia expected and it’s had an effect on Nokia’s Ovi store as well. The storefront is now averaging one million downloads per day. Nokia is seeing the most action in China, Italy, UK, Germany and Spain, although the service covers 180 countries. Beginning next month, all new GPS-enabled Nokia devices will include the new version of Ovi Maps preloaded. Read the rest of this entry »
