U.S. politicians have responded to China’s threat to Google by announcing a bill that would try to pressure nations with trade sanctions.
A bill introduced Thursday, the One Global Internet Act (PDF), would require the federal government to identify “priority” Internet concerns overseas. Then the U.S. Trade Representative would be directed to begin an investigation [...]
Pingdom recently released an article on “Where jailbreaking iPhones is most common”. Jailbreaking is a process where the original Apple software is replaced with a hacked version, allowing for unapproved third-party applications to be run on the iPhone. People do this because it allows them more functionality such as access to themes, and to hacks [...]
The Chinese have just released the new iPed or aPad, another tablet computer. It looks exactly the same as an Apple iPad but runs Google’s Android OS instead. From the videos, operating it is nowhere as smooth as the iPod, but it’s amazing how fast knock-offs can appear in the Chinese market, and how alike [...]
In an interview with TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz swears and disses TechCrunch. Arrington’s not being the innocent interviewer though, as he was clearly pushing Bartz, and doesn’t seem like he’s putting his invited guest in a good spot.
On the other hand, Bartz is swearing a lot, which may be unorthodox and her [...]
Google’s desire to map out the entire earth, especially street view, is amazing. And it also brings about some pretty creative ideas:
I’m not sure if it’s coincidental, but it’s definitely a pretty creative way to use Google Maps!
Microsoft has recently released its latest phone OS, named Windows Phone 7, and it’s clearly designed to compete with the latest phone OSes out there, namely in the form of the iPhone OS, the Blackberry OS, and the Google Android OS.
It actually looks pretty good, but it’ll only be after it’s been tested that we’ll [...]
