Only cable companies are distributing set-top boxes that can access all of the digital cable and video on-demand services available through their networks. Consumers can access the internet through many possible devices, yet MVPD’s services are only available through the set-top boxes distributed by cable companies. The FCC may potentially rule against the cable companies [...]

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A recent settlement over the Google Books program will limit the scope of out-of-print works to English-speaking countries. The settlement will also limit the way Google can make money from digitizing out-of-print works. This forces the registry to actively seek out copyright holders who do not initially come forward to gain permission. This settlement only [...]

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More objections to Google’s street view are forming in the European Union. The Swiss Government is suing Google because its Street View online service is too revealing they claim. The Swiss data protection authority filed a claim with the Federal Administrative Court over the way Google handles personal information–specifically for additional constraints to obscure the [...]

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A New York City robbery suspect was cleared of all charges because the defense showed that the suspect made a Facebook update from his father’s house, which was 13 miles away from the crime scene. The Facebook update (he wrote: “WHERE MY IHOP?”) took place one minute before the robbery. The suspect had been held [...]

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Cisco, EMC, and VMW have formed a partnership to create corporate-focused product called V-Block. Essentially the partnership will sell and provide maintenance for a new integrated data center that uses the capabilities of the three companies combined. The cloud infrastructure for the product will be built by all three companies. (Background information: EMC owns almost [...]

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Barnes & Noble will launch a Google Android powered wireless device that they hope will make them competitive with Amazon.com. The device will have a 6-inch touch screen and virtual keyboard. In July, Barnes & Nobles announced that it would be returning to the e-book market with some type of digital-book store.

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AT&T is now changing it’s mind about VOIP applications. It will now allow applications such as Skype and Vonage to run on it’s 3G wireless network. Consumers will rejoice at this decision, which will tax AT&T’s system resources. Recently the Federal Communications Commission has been investigating both Apple and AT&T on how it treats VoIP [...]

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One year ago, Yahoo rolled out Messenger 9 with video conferencing abilities. It was not a strong competitor to Skype, but was an obvious direction for the IM powerhouse. With Yahoo Messenger 10, video quality will be greatly improved making the tool a strong competitor with Skype for Windows users. Yahoo Messenger 10 will not [...]

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One of the largest web hosting companies just removed data transfer quotas from their hosting packages. 1 & 1 Internet serves 9 million customers has been in what has been termed an “arms race” for market share.

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Google Apps, a suite of premium enterprise level applications, will allow corporate BlackBerrys to have some push and sync functionality. This functionality, Google Apps Connector, will allow Gmail messages to be pushed within 60 seconds. It will also allow syncing of in-box actions such as labels and message archiving. Another added functionality will allow users [...]

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