Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Basking Ridge (ip-192.com): Palm smartphones are getting cheaper at Verizon Wireless. Prices for the Palm Pre Plus have been slashed from $150 to $50, and Palm’s Pixi Plus is now available for $30 instead of the previous $50 price tag. A buy one, get one free option is also available. Wal-Mart is currently topping the [...]

Boca Raton (ip-192.com): As the official release date for Apple's iPad on April 3 nears (ip-192.com reported here), AT&T is already planning to expand its product lineup. The carrier announced that it will sell another tablet device based on a new version of Intel’s Atom processor, called "Moorestown." The new tablet will be based on [...]

Basking Ridge (ip-192.com): Skype’s popular telephony application is on its way to Verizon Wireless. Nine phone models sold by the carrier in the U.S. will be compatible with the new service, including several Blackberry smart phones and phones running Goggle’s Android software. The Skype mobile application will allow Verizon data package subscribers to make phone [...]

Overland Park (ip-192.com): Nexus One, Google’s smart phone, will be available on the Sprint network. For Google, this is a new chance to tap into another potential customer base since sales to T-Mobile customers have so far been rather disappointing. Sprint Nextel also needs access to new technology. Sales of the Palm smart phone have [...]

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google and Dish Network Corp. are testing a new television programming search feature, several news outlets report.  New TV set-top boxes that run on Google's Android software will allow users to find programming on the Dish Network and videos on websites, including Google’s YouTube. While currently in a testing phase, Google seems [...]

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google is on its way to become an ISP and offer super-fast Internet access. In a post on its corporate blog, the search and advertising giant said it plans to build and test a high-speed fiber-optic broadband network capable of allowing people to surf the Web at 100 times the speed of [...]