Solving Sudoku in Seconds (With Google Goggles!)
Just when you may have thought Google Goggles couldn’t be any more amazing, Google goes and throws in some new features.
Why Apple Approved Opera And Not Google Voice
AnonymousRyan,
I've asked my colleagues who deal with Apple if they knew why Opera was approved while Google Voice was rejected.
I've discovered that some of the higher-ups at AT&T did have a high amount of influence on the two applications being accepted and rejected.
AT&T decided to reject Google Voice due to the fact that users would have no reason to keep their texting plan since they would be able to send/receive all their text messages through the Google Voice app which would make use of their data plan. This would cost AT&T to lose $20/month per user who got rid of their texting plan.
Opera Mini, on the other hand, compresses web pages before they are sent to the device as a way to speed up their web browsing experience on slower networks (EDGE). Because Opera compresses the web page before it is sent to the device, it results in less data transfer on the device. This would result in AT&T saving money by charging users the same amount every month for using less data.
I hope this has cleared some things up.
Ever since Opera for the iPhone was released, I asked myself over and over, why did Apple approve Opera and not Google Voice?
Well today, I finally got my answer. The following statement was emailed to me from a friend and employee who works for AT&T.
Google To Offer 1Gbps Fiber Optic Internet To Homes
Yep, you heard it right, 1 Gigabit per second. You can read the official details from Google here. Google is beginning to roll out fiber optic lines right to peoples homes in hopes to make the internet better and faster for everyone. Be sure to nominate your area by filling out the form here! Most of us have a cable internet connection of some sort. Furthermore, most of us have an slow, overpriced internet connection. To the left is a speed test of my residential internet connection. 25Mb/s down and 2Mb/s up. Sure, that might seem reasonable (at least the download speed, maybe not the awful upload speed), but Google plans to give customers’ speeds up to 40 times faster than that! More…
iPad vs HP Mini Netbook
When you compare, there’s no comparison
- AT&T
Ultimatrix pointed out where Steve Jobs compared the iPad to a Netbook, so you can stop posting comments about comparing two completely different devices.
Skip to 1:30
The problem is, Netbooks aren’t better at anything
- Steve Jobs
Well Steve, let’s see what the Netbook is better at.
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Comparing CDN Performance (Part 2)
Last week I wrote an article comparing Amazon S3 and Cloud Front to Rackspace Cloud Files. Since then I have gotten additional requests to compare more content delivery networks. The following is a comparison of Amazon Cloud Front, Rackspace Cloud Files, SimpleCDN, and GoGrid CDN. I tried to cover as many bases as I could. Please let me know if I missed anything.