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 Cox Communications (CCI) has unveiled its plans to launch a cell phone service in the second half of 2009. The company’s objective is to become a rival of AT&T, Sprint Nextel and Verizon. It seems like the best effort yet by a cable operator to bundle wireless phones with TV, Internet and land-line phone services. Subscribers will...
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 Google has been blocked by Russia’s antitrust authorities in the attempt of acquisitioning online advertising firm ZAO Begun from Rambler Media for $140 million. The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service has yet to give an official reason behind this decision. A statement from the agency referred to a regulation designed to preserve...
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 Communications provider Comcast announced on Wednesday two tiers of service for heavy residential downloaders, along with speed upgrades for subscribers of its services. The two new plans, called “Extreme” and “Ultra” clock in at 50 and 22 Mbps downstream, respectively and 10 and 5 Mbps of upstream. Current customers get a big jump from...
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 Wikia has confirmed that about 30 percent of its workers have been laid off, but points out that it is still trying to hire for open positions. Co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, officially launched at the beginning of this year an attempt at a human-powered search engine (Wikia Search). It looks like the experimental search engine is...
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 The major record labels plan to start selling digital songs today for 10 cents each. The catch is that you can’t download them; you can only listen through your Web browser. Sony and other major record labels and thousands of independent labels plan to sell songs via the Lala website, a digital music retail store and service. This way,...
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 EBay Inc. will ban the sale of all types of ivory products by January 1, 2009, after a conservation group investigation found more than 4,000 elephant ivory listings on the online auction site. The company said in its blog on Tuesday that they feel this is the best way to protect the endangered and protected species from which ivory...
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 Intel Corporation and Ericsson developed a solution to bring High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) to mobile internet devices. Intel senior vice president, Anand Chandrasekher, demonstrated the world’s first working “Moorestown” HSPA platform at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei, on Monday. Ericsson also used the occasion to announce that...
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 The recent study developed by the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds that the Internet and the cell phones have earned themselves a spot at the family heart. Married couples with children are more likely to own and use these technologies than other household types. The research revealed that parents use cell phones to check in...
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 Google has solved a problem that affected the functionality of the Start pages of its Apps hosted collaboration and communications suite. The bug only appeared when Apps administrators had customized their organizations’ Start page. The problem arose Thursday afternoon U.S. Eastern Time and it was solved at around noon on Friday. The...
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 Mozilla released Fennec, their new mobile browser available, as a public download. It appears in two versions, one for PC and the other for Mac. Fennec is a small fox that lives in the Sahara Desert and is known for its large ears. The new mobile browser has been made using the same Gecko code (this is the one behind the latest Firefox...
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