6:53 PM
Provo, Utah is the next city to get Google Fiber. I wish they would choose San Diego soon...cheap gigabit internet service would be awesome. I didn't realize that Google provides gigabit internet service for *free* to all schools, libraries, and other public institutions:
http://www.androidcentral.com/google-fiber-coming-provo-utah
Facebook has been hiring quite a number of Apple employees for their mobile team and just hired the man who was in charge of Apple Maps:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-16/facebook-said-to-hire-apple-maps-executive-amid-mobile-push.html
Microsoft is reportedly considering giving users an option to bypass the Windows 8 user interface and get the Start button and menu back from previous Windows versions. This would be offered as an option in the next Windows version...and make Windows 9 a lot like Windows 7:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/microsoft-may-backtrack-start-button-in-windows-8-216647
Microsoft got Hon Hai to sign a patent license agreement for all Android and Chrome devices Hon Hai makes...which is significant because Foxconn (Hon Hai is the parent company of Foxconn) makes more than 40% of the world's consumer electronics. This is the 20th licensing deal that Microsoft got Android manufacturers to sign:
http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/04/foxconn-parent-hon-hai-signs-with.html
Major investors in Sprint came out in favor of Dish's offer...no surprise since Dish bid quite a bit more than Softbank:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/major-sprint-investors-rally-around-dishs-bid/2013-04-17
ABI says that more than 1 million smart watches will be shipped this year...despite Apple, Google, etc. not officially selling them yet;
http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/more-one-million-smart-watches-will-be-shipped-2013-says-abi-research
Michigan judge has an order posted in his courtroom that any electronic devices that cause a disturbance will result in the owner found to be in comtempt of court. Last week the *judge's* cell phone rang in his courtroom...so, the judge fined himself:
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/59529.php
http://www.androidcentral.com/google-fiber-coming-provo-utah
Facebook has been hiring quite a number of Apple employees for their mobile team and just hired the man who was in charge of Apple Maps:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-16/facebook-said-to-hire-apple-maps-executive-amid-mobile-push.html
Microsoft is reportedly considering giving users an option to bypass the Windows 8 user interface and get the Start button and menu back from previous Windows versions. This would be offered as an option in the next Windows version...and make Windows 9 a lot like Windows 7:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/microsoft-may-backtrack-start-button-in-windows-8-216647
Microsoft got Hon Hai to sign a patent license agreement for all Android and Chrome devices Hon Hai makes...which is significant because Foxconn (Hon Hai is the parent company of Foxconn) makes more than 40% of the world's consumer electronics. This is the 20th licensing deal that Microsoft got Android manufacturers to sign:
http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/04/foxconn-parent-hon-hai-signs-with.html
Major investors in Sprint came out in favor of Dish's offer...no surprise since Dish bid quite a bit more than Softbank:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/major-sprint-investors-rally-around-dishs-bid/2013-04-17
ABI says that more than 1 million smart watches will be shipped this year...despite Apple, Google, etc. not officially selling them yet;
http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/more-one-million-smart-watches-will-be-shipped-2013-says-abi-research
Michigan judge has an order posted in his courtroom that any electronic devices that cause a disturbance will result in the owner found to be in comtempt of court. Last week the *judge's* cell phone rang in his courtroom...so, the judge fined himself:
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/59529.php