Google News ‘Lite’ mode app launches for slower internet connections
A new 'lite' mode is available in India for the Google News Android app. It uses one-third of the data of the full mode.
Topic: Mobile broadband
AT&T-Mobile Makes Google-ITA Antitrust Issue Look Trivial
The big tech news of yesterday was the announced $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA by AT&T. In less than 24 hours almost every potential angle has already been covered at length. Both AT&T’s and Deutsche Telekom’s boards have already approved the deal. So now it’s on to the regulatory drama. If approved by US […]
Net Neutrality: What Do The New Rules Mean And What’s Next?
The new “net neutrality” rules passed yesterday by the FCC (3-2 along partisan lines) are a kind of “Rorschach test.” Depending on where you sit on the political spectrum or in the internet economy you may see the new rules as “not going far enough” or “a unnecessary power grab by the government.” Some people […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 16, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
iPhone Frenzy, “All You Can Eat” Data, Mobile Internet Now At “Critical Mass”
We will probably look back on last year’s announcement of the iPhone (1.0) as the seminal or galvanizing event of the mobile internet. In fact, the events leading up to the iPhone were a decade or more in the making, but it’s the single moment when the mobile Internet came into focus. The world hasn’t […]
Google, Sprint, Cable Companies Join Forces On Wireless Internet Initiative
Sprint, the troubled, third largest US wireless carrier, has been mulling a spin off or sale of Nextel and has been the subject of takeover rumors itself. It had ambitious plans to roll out a national WiMax network that had seemingly been placed on the back burner. However, today the company announced a major deal […]
Pew: Cellphones More Important To Users Than Internet, TV, Email
Anyone who doubts how important mobile phones are and will become as a platform and marketing medium needs only to look at the latest Pew Internet & American Life report. Cellphones are now more important to US adults than the internet, television, landline phones, and email. In addition, an increasing number of consumers are using […]
“Open Network” A Reality, C Block Of 700MHz Spectrum Hits $4.6 Billion “Reserve Price”
Yesterday the coveted “C Block” of the 700MHz spectrum, which will serve the entire US market, hit the FCC required minimum “reserve bid” of $4.6 billion. Google had promised to bid this amount to trigger the “openness provisions” imposed by the FCC. Effectively the rules now require that “any legal consumer device” must be allowed […]
Google Gears Up For Spectrum Auction And More (Perhaps)
We’ve written here several times about Google’s probable bid on 700mhz wireless spectrum licenses that will be auctioned by the FCC in January, 2008. This morning the Wall Street Journal has a kind of free-ranging article that explores a variety of possibilities and scenarios that could come out of Google winning spectrum licenses or pursuing […]
Sprint Announces WiMax Partnership With Google
Wireless carrier Sprint and Google have announced a partnership in which Google will provide “Web search, interactive communications and social networking services on devices for the new high-speed wireless network the carrier is building,” according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Google Offers $4.6 Billion Incentive So The FCC Can Approve Wireless Spectrum Proposal
Google has made it officially clear that they are committed to making their wireless spectrum proposal win the FCC decision. Google said they would bid $4.6 billion for the 700 megahertz band wireless spectrum, if the FCC approved their proposal. Why? Google said they want to put their money where their “principles are,” by making […]