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Microsoft Axes Kin Phones – Only Six Weeks After Launch
Jun 30th
What happened? Microsoft officially announced today that the brand-new Kin line of phones is now discontinued.
Kin, is a series of two phones aimed at the young teenage market. Some of the very interesting attributes include the innovative cloud-based backup service. One of the biggest problems plaguing the Kin is branding confusion and its uncertain place in the phone industry. It is hard to understand is the Kin a messaging phone, like the Sidekick but it requires full data plans like a smartphone. So maybe it is a smartphone but there again it doesn’t have apps to download or any sort More >
The Broadband Speed Race Is On For Verizon, AT&T, Google
Mar 18th
The race for some of the top broadband providers to provide ultrafast broadband.
Case Western Reserve University will run a test in Cleveland, May 2010. It plans to allow residents of more than 100 homes to be able to download data at about 1 gigabit per second. Google stated in February that it plans an ultra-high-speed broadband network covering as many as 500,000 users. Goggle said “The purpose of this project is to experiment and learn. Network providers are making real progress More >
