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Guy Builds a Mobile Phone in Minecraft That Can Make Real Video Calls
One of the biggest YouTube successes of recent years has built a working mobile (or cell) phone in Minecraft that can actually call other players in-game. Jordan Maron, otherwise known by his YouTube handle CaptainSparklez, can use his phone to browse the internet (kind of, in a blocky, Minecraft style)…
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AOL Being Bought for $4.4 Billion by Verizon
Verizon is moving into the content and media business with its planned purchase of AOL. If regulators approve the $4.4 billion USD deal, Verizon will join the likes of Comcast which is not only a telecommunications giant but also a major media conglomerate. The acquisition would involve the entirety of…
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ISP Promotes Higher Broadband Deal for ‘Ideal’ Streaming
We all know the basics that a better internet connection means better internet experience. Well, it seems that this is all Verizon customer service employees know too and it’s over Netflix streaming again. Netflix offers two standard streaming qualities, standard at approximately 3Mbps and High Definition at approximately 5Mbps, but Verizon…
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Use Video to Make Internal Communications Fun
Do you know how many browser games your staff is playing? You may have key personnel so bored in that standing meeting that they’re doing an open-eyed lecture hall doze. Meetings are often looked upon as a necessary evil, but well run meetings can be therapeutic for stressed professionals, who…
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Firefox OS Set to Enter the US and Other Developed Markets in 2016
Mozilla has developed its Firefox OS in order to target low-cost smartphone markets all around the world. Its recent statement claims that the company is considering to enter more developed markets next year. Mozilla has stated a project with US, Japanese, South Korean and Spanish carriers to get ready for…
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Verizon Pokes Fun at Net Neutrality With Response Written in Morse Code
It’s no surprise that Verizon, one of the big monopolistic US ISP and mobile providers, is unhappy with yesterday’s net neutrality ruling. They, amongst others, including AT&T and Comcast, have always contested against such a decision. They’ve constantly maintained that the ‘fast lanes’ they could provide would not only help their…
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CNN Name T-Mobile Tech Company of the Year
News network CNN has declared T-Mobile as its Tech Company of the Year for 2014. Faced with stiff competition from Apple and Microsoft, CNN posits that “no other tech company shook up its entire industry the way that T-Mobile (TMUS) did this year.” In 2013, mobile telecom provider T-Mobile shifted its business model,…
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ISPs Threaten to Sue the FCC if they Enforce Net Neutrality
In response to US President Barack Obama’s statement supporting net neutrality, and asking the FCC to reclassify internet service as a utility under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act, American ISPs have come out fighting, threatening to take legal action against the FCC if they agree to Obama’s plan.…
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Comcast and Verizon Lowered Speed to Cogent below 0.5Mbps
New detailed measurements have been released displaying exactly how much throttling of traffic was done by major US ISP’s Comcast and Verizon through to Cogent – a backbone operator of Netflix traffic. As almost everyone in the United States discovered over the span of the last year, traffic through to…
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Free iPhone 6 and Trade-In by Verizon
Verizon is straight into the new iPhone market, offering up a potential deal to customers wishing to have the latest Apple technology. On Tuesday, they announced a new deal offering a 16GB iPhone 6 to users – the catch being that you must trade in your old phone and renew your…
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Solar-Powered, Smartphone Charging Benches to be put in Boston
Soofa is a smart urban furniture company developed by Changing Environments, (an MIT Media Lab spin-off) and they’re bringing the Silicon Valley feel to Boston. As we’ve learned, this companies trendy name is derived from the acronym SUFA (Smart Urban Furniture Appliance) with the ‘double o’ added for a modern feel.…
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FCC to Investigate Netflix and Verizon Fiasco
The fight between Netflix and Verizon has been escalating rapidly over the last few days, with Netflix warning its customers that the Verizon network is “crowded” and then Verizon trying to take legal action against Netflix, issuing them with a cease and desist for saying such things. This then promoted…
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Verizon Issues Cease and Desist against Netflix – Netflix Stands Their Ground
In a heated debate between the american based ISP Verizon and the entertainment streaming service Netflix, Verizon has issued a cease and desist asking Netflix to stop putting down Verizon’s service but to also to “provide Verizon with any and all evidence and documentation that it possesses substantiating Netflix’s assertion”. Netflix…
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Verizon To Finally Offer Nexus 7 (2013) But Is It Too Little Too Late?
Verizon are well known for taking a painfully long time to bring certain devices onto their network, the Google Nexus devices suffering particularly badly. The Nexus 7 2013 edition was released on July 26th 2013 and according to Engadget Verizon users will finally see a Verizon LTE version from February…
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Verizon To Disclose Government Requests For Customer Data
Verizon is getting ready to release a detailed report twice a year in regards to the number of law enforcement requests they get for their customers data in the US and aboard. The first of these reports which will cover the whole of 2013 will be made available in early…
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