Archive for June, 2011

Android Phones Get HuluPlus

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

HuluPlus On Android Devices. http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
HuluPlus the premium Hulu service now available on Android, namely sis of them at the moment. Nexus One, Nexus S, HTC Inspire 4G, Motorola Droid II, Motorola Droid X and the Motorola flagship, Motorola Atrix.
Hulu says this is just the beginning and this is the initial batch and that they will [...]

Apple Gets iPhone Patent : Spells Trouble For Other Phones, Android, Windows Etc

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

iPhone patent http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
USPTO has awarded the patent Apple has been after for years, the iPhone patent was awarded yesterday and it is so broad that, if exercised, it could drive all other phones off the US soil, at least.
“A computer-implemented method, for use in conjunction with a portable multifunction device [...]

Orange Business Services, SITA Joins To Build A Managed Cloud Computing Infrastructure.

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Orange SITA Cloud http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
In the age of everyone jumping on the cloud bandwagon, two more fields of communications and IT have joined hands to bring alive a cloud infrastructure. Orange Business Services, a global integrated communications service provider for businesses, and SITA, a air transport industry IT specialist, have agreed to jointly build a [...]

Dutch Net Neutrality, The Way It Supposed To Be

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Dutch Net Neutrality http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Network operators in the Netherlands will no longer be able to charge customers for using rival messaging or VoIP Services like Skype and similar.
The Dutch parliament approved a Net Neutrality bill forcing mobile Internet providers to let customers use Skype and other rival services on their networks without charging extra or giving [...]

Sarasota and Bradenton, Florida Gets Verizon 4G LTE

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Verizon 4G LTE http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Sarasota and Brandenton joins Miami, W. Palm Beach, Tampa Bay, Orlando and other Florida cities under the Verizon 4G LTE umbrella. Verizon Wireless announced in an statement to the press.
Verizon expects average data rates in real-world, loaded network environments to be 5 to 12 megabits per second (Mbps) on the downlink [...]

Google Goggles Does Russian Now

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Google Goggles Understands and translated Russian http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
The new optical character recognition (OCR) and translation of Russian in Google Goggles introduced last week?s Inside Search event, is getting some new features.
Ever since Google Goggles was launched in 2009, it has been able to recognize and translate texts from several languages, as long as they were using [...]

California Public Utilities Commission Votes To Investigate AT&T/T-Mobile Merger.

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

CA PUC Votes To Investigate AT&T-T-Mobile Merger http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
California PUC, Public Utilities Commission have voted 3 to 2 in favor of investigation the AT&T / T-Mobile merger.
As a part of the investigation, the PUC will hold public workshops in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Central Valley and Orange County this July. The commission will forward [...]

LodSys Challanged By Novell On Two Core Patents.

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Novell Challenges LodSys http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Novell, one of the ten companies to be sued by LodSys in February has responded by challenging two core patents of LodSys, one of which LodSys used to sue those little app developers. Novell denied Lodsys’s claims, and also brought counterclaims, requesting declaratory judgment of invalidity (and non-infringement) of Lodsys’s [...]

Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, Makes Opening Of Files In The Cloud A Breeze.

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
If you are user of both Google DOcs and Microsoft office, Google Apps team has given a you simple but very important gift today, according to Google Docs Blog. Now you can open any Office file stored in Google Docs directly from within Microsoft Office.
The action will bring [...]

LulzSec Says We Were Not Arrested In UK

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

LulzSec Say We Are Still Free http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
This morning there were news that said UK’s Police Computer e-Crime Unit (PCeU) has arrested a 19-year-old man in Wickford, Essex, in connection with LulzSec misdeeds against CIA, SONY, and PBS, that we heard for last few months.
In either case as Slashdot puts it, LulzSec had poured “Cloud Water” [...]