By Todd Haselton |
Google Fiber’s rapid expansion is continuing. The company announced recently that Grandview, Missouri recently voted to launch Google Fiber in the area around Kansas City. Google said it will still be “awhile before [it] can build Fiber in Grandview” and that it needs to engineer…
By Todd Haselton |
Do we have another Kin on our hands? The HTC First – a phone that puts Facebook front and center to a user’s experience, launched less than a month ago on AT&T for $99 with a new two-year contract. It’s now available for $0.99, which…
By Todd Haselton |
Boingo announced on Tuesday that customers can now use an iTunes account to purchase a subscription to its Wi-Fi hotspot service. The company currently offers more than 600,000 hotspots around the globe, and users simply need to download the company’s Wi-Finder application for iOS to…
By Brandon Russell |
Google’s very active rollout of Fiber Internet is making its way to Shawnee, Kansas, adding yet another city to the search giant’s growing portfolio. Following a city council vote, Google announced the news but refrained from sharing an estimated timeframe when residents could expect the…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft announced on Friday that it has finished transitioning all of its Hotmail users over to Outlook.com, which is now home to more than 400 million active users. Of those 400 million active users, 125 million are accessing most of the services on a mobile device using Exchange…
By Sean P. Aune |
It seems that Google used the right bait when it cast its line out into the world of Internet Service Providers because it’s sure pulling in some nice catches. Google Fiber seemed like such a wonderful idea. The search giant would deem one community worthy…
By Brandon Russell |
Google’s gradual Fiber rollout has kicked off a gigabit revolution, opening up more widespread access in the small town backyards of America. Following news Vermont would receive gigabit coverage from provider VTel, Internet service provider CenturyLink announced plans on Wednesday to bring gigabit Internet to…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter on Wednesday updated its iOS and Android applications with an all new ability to see what’s happening in your area. The option to have control over location-based trends follows a rumor that pretty much detailed exactly what Twitter introduced today. In addition to seeing…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook recently unveiled Facebook Home, a skin that covers the entirety of Android and keeps its users inside the social network, and the HTC First which launched as the first smartphone with the UI layer installed out of the box. There seemed to be a…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook on Wednesday published its first quarter 2013 earnings report. Wall Street analysts were predicting revenue of $1.44 billion and an earnings per share of $0.13. The company reported revenue of $1.46 billion for the quarter and an earnings per share of $0.12, missing predictions…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new beta of the Facebook application for Windows Phone that it promises has a major redesign. As with all betas, the product is not final and will likely have several bugs, and Microsoft wants to know about them. So what’s…
By Brandon Russell |
Before Google Reader is executed on July 1, Digg will launch its own RSS reader—in beta form, mind you—this June. The revived social news platform announced its intentions to offer an alternative back in March, almost immediately following Google’s announcement that Reader would be shut…
By Brandon Russell |
Vine is making it easier to record six-second selfies with a new upgrade on Tuesday. And teenagers everywhere yelped with excitement. It won’t be long before everyone is awkwardly holding their phone, arm extended in front of them, at the pep rally or in a…
By Adriana Lee |
Seems like the Syrian Electronic Army is having a busy year. After claiming credit for hacking the Twitter account of the Associated Press and sending out a fake news tweet that The White House had been bombed — it wasn’t — they’re at it again, this time attacking…
By Brandon Russell |
One company based in Vermont, known as VTel, is offering residents gigabit Internet service for just $35 a month later this year. Forgot Google Fiber and its sedate, steady approach—the local provider is beating the search giant to the punch, with cost by undercutting Google…
By Todd Haselton |
LivingSocial was recently the target of a massive security attack that left the hackers with identities of more than 50 million users, according to AllThingsD and an internal memo obtained by the news outlet. The identifying information includes names, birthdays, email addresses and passwords. The company…
By Adriana Lee |
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. And when it involves Facebook, the truth is often even stranger: Reportedly five people have been arrested in India in connection to the Facebook sale of a baby — including the boy’s grandfather. Ferox Khan, 47, kicked off a bizarre…
By Adriana Lee |
Nothing like a little competition to ratchet the broadband envy up a few notches. It’s not enough that Austin, TX, is getting Google Fiber — which alone is turning geeks everywhere green with jealousy (except perhaps Kansas City and Provo) — but soon they’ll also…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter wants to show you what people are talking about in your area. Is that new restaurant down the road any good? Someone probably tweeted about it. How about that bar that just opened up? Yep, it’s probably on Twitter. Or maybe there’s a cool…
By Adriana Lee |
So what do you do after you hack the most infamously closed consumer platform on Earth, join the tech company you once plundered and then get released from service? If you’re Comex, the answer is simple: You join the other side. Apple’s loss might be…
By Todd Haselton |
Vine launched for iOS on January 24 as a Twitter product that allows users to take quick 6.5 second snapshots of the life around them and upload them to Twitter. Users can follow one another on the service, too, and like or comment on the…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter is close to rolling out two-step verification in response to recent hackings, according to Wired. The social network has reportedly begun internal testing before the feature becomes available in increments to users; the staggered release is to ensure smooth sailing. The extra security measure…
By Todd Haselton |
Tumblr released an official Windows Phone application on Tuesday, which is great news for those of us who have been trying to find a decent alternative. The application allows you to “post anything from anywhere,” including quotes, links, photos, text, chats and videos. You can…
By Brandon Russell |
Another high-profile Twitter account was seized by hackers on Tuesday when a fake tweet claiming there had been explosions in the White House was sent out on the Associated Press account. The cyber attack, which wrested control of AP’s Twitter account, was immediately refuted by…
