Verizon Selects LTE As 4G Wireless Broadband Direction  —  Technology Platform to be Trialed in 2008  —  BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon today announced plans to develop and deploy its fourth generation mobile broadband network using LTE - Long Term Evolution - the technology developed within …

Source:   Verizon
Link:   http://news.vzw.com/news/2007/11/pr2007-11-29.html

Apple to Unveil Faster IPhone, AT&T’s Stephenson Says  —  Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. will introduce a version of the iPhone next year that can download from the Internet at a faster rate, AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson said.  —  The device will operate …

Source:   Bloomberg
Author:   Crayton Harrison
Link:   http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid…

Straight Out Of Left Field: Google Experimenting With Digg Style Voting On Search Results  —  If you saw this one coming, give yourself a very large prize.  Google is experimenting with Digg style voting features on search results that allow users to vote up or bury search results they see.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Duncan Riley
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Microsoft Challenges the iPod (Again)  —  Don’t look now, but Microsoft might finally be getting the hang of hardware.  —  The company’s overall track record for designing gadgets is pretty awful.  Remember the Smart Display?  The Spot Watch?  The Ultra-Mobile PC?  The original Zune?

Source:   New York Times
Author:   David Pogue
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/technology…

P2P Traffic Is Booming, BitTorrent The Dominant Protocol  —  Ipoque, a German based company that specializes in developing bandwidth managing solutions for Universities and ISPs concludes this from data they gathered between August and September 2007.  In total, over 3 Petabytes …

Source:   TorrentFreak
Author:   Ernesto
Link:   http://torrentfreak.com/p2p-traffic-still-booming…

Google Digg-Style Experiment  —  Google Experimental is currently running an experiment that allows some selected users to “influence [the] search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results.”  —  On a result page, you can choose move a search result to the top by clicking …

Source:   Googlified
Author:   Haochi
Link:   http://googlified.com/2007google-digg-style…

New Google Maps feature could simulate GPS on iPhones  —  A new version of Google Maps introduced this week includes a beta feature dubbed My Location that was designed to simulate the GPS experience on mobile phones and handheld devices that do not include GPS hardware, like Apple’s iPhone.

Source:   AppleInsider
Author:   Slash Lane
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Yahoo! concocts a spicier new version of Widgets and Konfabulator  —  Yahoo! has launched an updated version of the Yahoo! Widget Engine and gallery.  Yahoo! Widget Engine 4.5 has the same look and feel on your desktop as version 4.0, but there are some changes in the way widgets are created and organized.

Source:   Download […]

Facebook May Revamp Beacon  —  After pressure from MoveOn and members, the social network may change a policy on sharing info on users’ Web buying and activities  —  In the wake of mounting criticism, Facebook executives are discussing changes to a controversial advertising tool …

Source:   Business Week
Author:   Catherine Holahan
Link:   http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content…

Yahoo, Adobe team on PDF ads  —  Yahoo and Adobe are bringing pay-per-click ads to Adobe’s Portable Document Format so that publishers can serve up ads inside PDFs distributed on Web sites and over e-mail that are contextually relevant to the content.  —  The text advertisements appear …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Elinor Mills
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