Google is looking to take the Android operating system to the big screen—the one in your living room, anyway. The company has partnered with Intel and Sony in order to bring a more interactive viewing experience to the TV in the form of (you guessed it) set-top boxes. The idea behind it is giving users the ability to seamlessly switch between Web apps and video entertainment, though there’s already plenty of competition in this space.
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Android set-top box may be coming to a living room near you
Nokia is tapping into the collective wisdom of mobile technology enthusiasts on the Internet as it designs a new smartphone concept device. The handset maker has launched a new project called Design by Community which aims to collect feedback about preferred device characteristics from visitors to the Nokia Conversations blog.
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Nokia asks the Internet to help design a phone
Should the Google/China spat over censorship start a trade war that puts an end to Chinese-made computers? One international trade lawyer argues that it should: “If China shuts out our Internet companies, we need to shut out their hardware that the Internet runs on.” The sentiment comes from Gil Kaplan, a former Commerce Department official who is now in private practice
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After Google dustup, should the US ban Chinese computers?
Nearly half of Internet users check for or post updates to Twitter and Facebook after they have already gotten themselves tucked into bed, during the night, or first thing when they wake up, according to a new report from Retrevo . The study asked more than a thousand Internet users about their own behaviors when it came to social media and gadget usage, and discovered that many of us are just flat out addicted
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‘Net addiction at a new level: users update from bed, dinner
Tencent , a Chinese internet giant in instant messaging, social networks, and mobile, posted $1.8 billion in 2009 revenues , an increase of 74 percent from a year ago. For the record, that’s about three times Facebook’s estimated $600-700 million in 2009 revenues . Tencent’s flagship product, QQ Messenger (with a cute penguin logo), is the first introduction to the internet for most Chinese teens
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China’s Tencent: $1.8 billion in 2009 revenues—what Facebook could learn
Bacteria have largely stayed out of the forensics game, but with some new research, scientists are seeking to put them into the evidence bag along with human DNA. Researchers have found that the bacteria left on keyboards and mice by users’ hands are distinct to individual users, and ?that it is possible to identify a piece of hardware’s primary user simply by swabbing the keyboard or mouse for bacteria
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Using keyboard bacteria as a (not quite) unique ID
Filed under: App Review Never before in human history have there been so many ways to part with your hard-earned cash. The spotlight might be on credit card acceptance tools from Square & Verisign , or the beta Venmo service’s SMS-based trust network — still, don’t forget about the cagey veteran
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Paypal app goes 2.0, adds Bump integration
Today the FCC finally unveiled the National Broadband Plan , following months of speculation. The plan — for how to extend internet access to all American citizens — marks the first time that broadband access, and internet access in general, have been given considerable government attention in America
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FCC announces National Broadband Plan
