5 billion mobile phones by the end of 2010 -- but where are the apps and games?
A research group has just released an astonishing figure: at the end of the first quarter, 2010, there were 4.8 billion mobile phone connections across the world. The same report says that by the end of the year there will be no less than 5 billion connected mobile phones.
To put this into perspective: there are only 7 billion souls on this planet. That means 71% of the entire world has a ...
Google has just announced plans to deploy insanely fast broadband to between 50,000 and 500,000 households in the U.S. They say they're going to offer the service at "competitive prices". It doesn't mean they're going into the business as an ISP per se (even though 500,000 households is not exactly a tiny number), but they're mainly going to use it as a large-scale connectivity experiment.
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digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/11/18/outlook-2010-social-connector-activity-streams/'; It's been a long time coming, and perhaps a little too late, but you can now track your friends' and colleagues' social networking activity in Outlook 2010. Dubbed the 'Outlook Social Connector' (OSC), the functionality is available right now to all Office 2010 Beta testers. The list of ...





