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Want to earn up to $20 back for not using all of your plan minutes from your wireless carrier? Well, perhaps it’s time to look into the newly launching Cox plan that does just that. Reuters is running a story right now …
YouTube Works to Enhance Tech for the Disabled
Everyone who uses the social, video-sharing site YouTube may now be familiar with the automatic closed-captioning system—and mostly they know it by how funny it can be. For most of us, the automated closed-captioning is just a gimmick, something silly that cropped …
Former Falconstor CEO Resigns from Another Gig
It looks like ReiJane Huai will be moving on again after he resigned from SeaChange of Acton, Massachusetts. Their Board of Directors accepted his resignation after his extremely short stint with them. No news yet if the video content delivery company will …
U.S. Falling Behind World in Broadband Adoption, FCC Fears
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski addressed all comers to the Web 2.0 Summit with some dire news: the United States doesn’t seem to be doing too well with broadband adoption. The harsh criticism of current policies comes after the release of a study …
Google Ads Coming to Verizon FiOS TV
“Fiber all the way,” reads the motto of the Verizon FiOS roll-out, touting the fastest Internet in the United States, the clearest phone calls, and the highest resolution TV. It looks like Verizon will be handing one more thing to their eager …
Hacking the Kinect Leads to Very Cool Things
Recently, Microsoft launched the Kinect for Xbox. A stereographic camera set capable of detecting and tracking movement in the room—something to help combat the extreme popularity of the Wii as a motion-sensing controller device. The Kinect has exploded onto the scene with …
Google Docs Now Going Mobile
Looks like Google Docs just got better: they’re rolling out a mobile editing platform for people on-the-go. The web platform will enable mobile devices to read and modify Google Docs on the fly. Good for anyone who happens to own a smartphone …
Comcast Defends NBC Universal Merger Against Senatorial Criticism
In a statement Tuesday, Comcast responded to criticism from Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont-I) about their upcoming takeover of NBC Universal. The senator sent a letter to the FCC asking the commission to block the merger on the grounds that it would be …
Google Android Rolling Out Near-Field Communications
Yesterday, in some coverage of the Web 2.0 Summit, we spoke about Google CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned the upcoming Android OS, Gingerbread—one element of this new OS will be an API for a new wireless-wallet concept called Near-Field Communications (NFC). In part, …
Web 2.0 Summit Brings Gingerbread, Patience for Chrome OS, and Adobe
Google must have a lot up their sleeve these days with lots of products—mostly on the software front for Web 2.0—to titillate the audience with. They cover, most importantly, developments in the Google Android operating system and the much awaited Chrome OS. …