The BBC is reporting that talks in the US, intended to find a way to make sure all data on the Internet is treated equally have stalled. The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) began the talks on net neutrality after Google and Verizon said they wanted to see faster access speeds for websites that paid extra [...]

Categories: Google, The Web

The femtocell caused a great deal of excitement when the technology was first announced a couple of years ago.  These boxes use your broadband connection to boost the signal for your 3G mobile phone and can be a godsend in those areas where the phone signal just isn’t up to scratch. Now Engadget are reportingthat [...]

Categories: Mobiles

US phone network AT&T was massively over-subscribed for orders for the new iPhone 4, with many people who tried pre-ordering a device on the launch day being greeted by a series or errors.  The good news though is that the company has begun shipping some of the handsets to customers but mysteriously cancelling other orders. [...]

Categories: Apple

AT&T has already sold out of pre-order iPhone 4′s, having had some 600,000 people in the US sign up for one of the spangly handsets (though I doubt anyone who finds one in a bar now will get $5,000 for it). Apple say it’s the largest number of pre-orders they’ve ever taken in a single [...]

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After last week’s security breach in which the email addresses of iPad owners were harvested by hackers, AT&T has now sent letters to apologies to the customers concerned, as reported by Engadget who have a full copy of the letter. Hackers were able to intercept the email addresses because they were sent unencrypted when the [...]

Categories: Apple

Hackers have exploited a vulnerability on AT&T’s US network when iPad users authenticated themselves online that has allowed them to gain access to a list of 114,067 email addresses belonging to owners, it has been reported by gawker. The group, calling themselves Goatse Security harvested the data using nothing more than a PHP script and [...]

Categories: Apple, Hacking

This is the continuation of the last post that rounds up the latest on the popular smartphones of the moment. Of course, their smartness is highly relative – like whether your last phone had a color display or not and whether the rock that was over you was volcanic in origin. There’s a lot happening [...]

Categories: Gadgets, Google, Google Android, Mobiles, Nokia

The Qualcomm Snapdragon seems to be on its way to becoming the Atom of the smartphone world. With a clock speed of 1GHz and a low-power ARM design, this chip is fast becoming the mainstay of big new smartphones that are big on everything. However, more processing power always means less battery life and the [...]

Categories: Gadgets, Google Android, Mobiles, Nokia

Video Crawler is AT&T’s multimedia search engine. The service is currently in Beta and provides access to videos and other multimedia files of more than 1600 different websites including the popular ones like Youtube, MySpace or Dailymotion. The search engine is indexing the contents of those websites and providing a search engine so that users [...]

Categories: The Web