Creators of "Angry Birds" as Angry Birds

Global Internet Speed Study

The average worldwide download speed is 580 Kbps. Average U.S. speeds are about 616 Kbps. South Korea has an average speed of 2.2 Mbps. In the United States, Verizon Internet Services provides the fastest service, averaging 1 Mbps.

In Great Britain, Virgin Media is the fastest choice with average speeds of 612 Kbps while Dacom Corp. takes the top spot in speedy South Korea with an average of 5.2 Mbps.

Over time, such measurements will have to reflect widespread use of wireless broadband, with generally slower speeds, though.

The study was based on 27 million downloads by 20 million computers in 224 countries from January through June 2011.

Global Internet Speed Study

Is Meg Right for H-P?

LightSquared Comments at Communacopia

Michael Montemarano, LightSquared CFO, and  and Frank Boulben, Chief Marketing Officer, talk about the company at the Goldman Sachs 20th Annual Communacopia Conference. The executives provided an overview and update of the LightSquared business a well as a recap of yesterday’s announcement of the company’s solution to GPS interference issues. You can listen to the presentation here: LightSquared presentation

Facebook Launches "Timeline"

It's more visual, and historical.

 

Was Einstein Wrong?

Scientists at CERN say they have recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light, a feat that Einstein said was impossible.

If the findings are proven to be accurate, they would overturn one of the pillars of the "Standard Model" of physics, which explains the way the universe and everything within it works.

Einstein's theory of special relativity, proposed in 1905, states that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.

But researchers at the CERN lab near Geneva claim they have recorded neutrinos, a type of tiny particle, travelling faster than the barrier of 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometres) per second.

Proof that something had travelled faster would pose major questions about our understanding of the laws of nature because, for example, something that travels faster than light would in theory arrive before it left.

Speed of light 'broken' by scientists

Google Wallet Launches

Right now, Google Wallet only works with Citi-Mastercards and the Google Prepaid Card. Visa and Google announced a worldwide agreement to support the Visa payWave app, but it will still be up to the financial institutions and banks to add support.



Google Wallet

DOJ Antitrust Chief: AT&T Merger Lawsuit Not Negotiating Tactic

The Justice Department's chief antitrust enforcer flatly rejects speculation that the agency's lawsuit to block the AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile USA is a negotiating tactic.

"I wouldn't call it a preemptive lawsuit of any kind," Sharis Pozen said. "The department's antitrust objections to the $39 billion deal "couldn't be clearer."

AT&T Merger Lawsuit Not Negotiating Tactic

Mobile website optimization now factors into mobile search ads quality, Google says

In 2010 Google began to limit ad serving on high-end mobile devices if they pointed to landing pages with Flash-heavy content. This was an initial step taken to improve the experience for mobile users. Google now says it will, n the coming weeks, introduce the mobile optimization of a website as a new factor of "ad quality" for AdWords campaigns that are driving mobile search traffic.

As a result of this change, ads that have mobile optimized landing pages will perform better in AdWords. They will generally drive more mobile traffic at a lower cost.

Mobile website optimization now factors into mobile search ads quality

Meg Whitman HP’s new CEO?

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman will likely be named the new full-time CEO of Hewlett-Packard after markets close on Sept. 22, 2011, according to All Things D.

  H-P has had management and many would say board turmoil for some years. One wishes her well, but wonders why she wants the headache. HP has had seven different CEOs since 1999.


Meg Whitman will likely be named HP’s new CEO

Netflix to Merge With Amazon?

Netflix created separate DVD by mail and streaming units so Netflix could be sold to Amazon, argues Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter. Netflix formed Qwikster so it can be spun off, allowing Amazon to buy Netflix, he argues.

"In our view, Amazon has always wanted to be in the streaming business, and has been constrained from buying Netflix due to tax considerations," says Pachter. "The split up of Netflix’s business addresses the state sales tax issues raised for Amazon."

If Amazon were to acquire only Netflix’s streaming business, it could triple the size of its content library, and gain traction as an industry leader.

Netflix split to set up Amazon streaming merger?

New Sprint Hotspot Data Cap of 5GB

Sprint has been tightening its belt in a number of other ways, including killing off its Sprint Premier upgrade program and raising upgrade fees.

Now it appears Sprint will dramatically revise its mobile hotspot plans. Sprint customers new and old get hotspot data cap of 5GB

Sprint will start capping data used by phone hotspots to 5 GBytes per month.

Even existing customers won’t be exempt from the new cap, and will be migrated to a new plan enforcing the limit after a friendly reminder from their carrier.

Google Changes the Game with Hangouts

Google+ "Hangouts On Air" and "Screensharing" are the two advances in video-based communications that many businesses will find quite useful. Simply put, businesses that now use "GoToMeeting" should pay attention.

"Hangouts on Air" lets you broadcast a Hangout to as many people as you like (while the limit for participation is still 10.) If that sounds like a podcast or webinar, you understand the concept.

With Hangouts, a firm could create a meeting, presentation or webinar with up to 10 panelists, participating in real time, with unlimited numbers of viewers.

Since you can record a Hangout on Air, it would also be available asynchronously to those who couldn’t participate in real time.

Think "GoToMeeting." That' what Google+ Hangouts now can compete with.

Google Changes the Game with Hangouts

Facebook Users Protest Changes to News Feed

Facebook is getting an earful about changes it made to the News Feed right before its annual developers conference Thursday. Users are taking to their News Feeds to protest the overhaul of the News Feed.

And they are complaining in comments to the official Facebook blog post announcing the changes that were supposed to help users by surfacing the most important information about their friends, instead of just the most recent items.

Facebook users protest changes to News Feed

What People Do on Their Tablets

Tablets clearly are content consumption devices, a survey by IDG shows. People browse the web, read emails,  watch videos, use mobile apps, play games, read magazines, newspapers and books.



Tablet Apps and User Behavior