Archive for May 14th, 2010

Google Android 2.2 Froyo Looks Delicious, OS Ready for Launch

Google is so excited about the launch of the Android 2.2 (Froyo) platform, that it ordered a sculpture shaped like a frozen yogurt and placed it in front of the Android HQ. In case you haven’t heard, the search engine giant will announce the new version of Android during the Google I/O event next week.

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Why I Steal Movies… Even Ones I’m In [Piracy]

Like a billion other people, I download things illegally. I’m also an actor, writer and director whose income depends on revenue from DVDs, movies and books. This leads to many conflicts in my head, in my heart, and in bars. More »

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Home Depot Ordered To Pay $25 Million For Stealing Inventor’s Safety Gizmo [Lawsuits]

Years ago, Floridian inventor Michael Powell pitched Home Depot a device that would keep its employees’ fingers safe when cutting wood for customers. It worked so well that they stole his idea. Now Powell’s getting sweet, $25 million justice. More »

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Cellphones purportedly used more now for data, Gossip Girl blasts than calls

Ever notice how easy it is to find mobile plans with unlimited minutes these days? Yeah, it’s because they’re about as valuable as pea coats in the dead of summer. With more and more consumers disconnecting their landlines in favor of using their cellie for everything, the art of communicating via voice is also becoming lost. According to “government and industry data” cited in a New York Times report, the growth in voice minutes used by consumers has “stagnated,” with 2009 being the first year ever in which the “amount of data in text, email messages, streaming video, music and other services on mobile devices [in the US] surpassed the amount of voice data in cellphone calls.” Dan Hesse, Sprint’s head honcho, even chimed in with this nugget: “Originally, talking was the only cellphone application; now it’s less than half of the traffic on mobile networks.” We also learned that the average length of a mobile call was just 1.81 minutes in 2009, a drop from the 2.27 minutes per call seen in 2008, with many individuals feeling that other communication methods (email, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) were far less invasive of someone’s time, being that they could respond to those messages at their convenience. Of course, on the Upper East Side (where all the richies use Verizon dumbphones, apparently), we get the impression that yakking away about a cornucopia of drama is still the hotness.

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Google’s Nexus One Store Is Going Out Of Business

When Google launched its Nexus One Android phone, it also launched alongside it an online phone store where the Nexus One and future Android phones would be for sale. It was a slightly disruptive play to de-link the purchase of a phone from an actual carrier. The idea was, you could pick your phone, pick your plan, and mix and match.

Well, it didn’t turn out that way. Carriers don’t like to give up control. In fact, Verizon decided not to sell the Nexus One at all, and instead opt for its own more Incredible Android phone. The phone store turned out to be a flop, and Google just announced that it will be closing up shop online:

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