Networking

It has been a few weeks since Hulu became available to the general public and so far the internet video service has been met with open arms. Often times when a service leaves private beta and sees a huge amount of popularity, development can become stagnant for a while. Hulu however, appears to be the [...]

Do you have any Facebook contacts with whom you communicate whose IM details you don’t have? We’re not talking about the kid from third grade with the lazy eye who friended you out of the blue, we mean contacts you actually converse with. Of course not, and yet Facebook is reportedly planning to institute a [...]

Barack Obama fans, this one is for you - you can now call your phone the BarackBerry. We started the month with the Apple iPhone supporting Microsoft Exchange functionality, and now it appears as if Research in Motion is taking another step towards the consumer market. The maker of the BlackBerry device announced [...]

This past Sunday, business networking 2.0 leader LinkedIn announced the availability of its new mobile mobile offerings. LinkedIn has launched two mobile sites, each accessible using the same URL: m.linkedin.com. Hit the address from your iPhone or iPod Touch and you will be greeted with a great looking iPhone-optimized interface. Other web-enabled mobiles will find [...]

The Nokia N95 8GB has a lot going for it as Nokia’s current flagship handset. Last week we saw that the N95 8GB became the first mobile handset to receive DLNA certification. The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is an international collaboration dedicated to making PCs, consumer electronics and mobile devices as interoperable as possible. [...]

MTV is teaming up with MyStrands to create an interactive Times Square bash this New Year’s Eve. Using partyStrands technology, Times Square party-goers will be able to send messages, answer trivia questions and vote to determine the video content displayed on MTV’s massive 44.5′ HD screen outside their Times Square studios. What’s more, partyStrands will [...]

The new Belkin Vision N1 wireless router marries high-performance Wi-Fi networking with an onboard LCD info display, and wraps it all up in one of the sleekest designs on the market. The N1’s interactive status display shows your broadband speed, computer bandwidth usage, the status of connected network devices, and more. The sexy design and [...]

And the never ending battle continues. John Hart, a Californian Comcast customer, has sued the internet provider over the company’s peer to peer blocking policies. Hart claims that Comcast’s P2P practices are severely limiting his ability to use any file sharing programs, as well as limiting his access to Lotus Notes. Hart’s beef, it seems, [...]

Oh, it may look like an ordinary shirt, but there’s some function in that form, friends. For $30, you too can have a shirt that actually serves as a WiFi detector. Powered by 3 AAA batteries, the "waves" on either side of the tower actually glow to help determine the strength level of the network [...]

While it’s not DIRECTV, we suppose EchoStar has a couple things to offer. We kid, we kid. EchoStar was an "early investor" in Sling Media, and they’ve announced they’re acquiring Sling. What does this mean for us, the people that use Sling Media’s products? It looks like we can expect the same innovation and dedicated [...]