
In-flight broadband Internet access in reaching full swing for American Airlines.
The airline has announced that it is "marking the beginning of the next wireless revolution." A bit overstated perhaps. They're offering in-flight Internet access at $12.95 a flight.
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Google sites received the majority of searches conducted in India according to a study of the online search market from comScore. Google sites in India had more than 1 billion searches conducted in June, representing 81 percent of the market. Yahoo sites ranked a distant second with 117 million searches accounting for 9.4 percent. Ask Network landed in the third spot with 24 million searches representing 1.9 percent of the market. read more  Publ.Date : Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:06:12 -0400
Google has stepped up its efforts to lobby the FCC to free up broadcast white spaces for unlicensed wireless broadband use by launching FreeTheAirwaves.com. The site provides information about uses for white spaces and invites supporters to sign an online petition to the FCC.
 read more  Publ.Date : Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:39:29 -0400
The United States has asked the World Trade Organization to create a panel to settle a dispute with the European Union over tariffs on high-tech items. The request is an escalation in an increasingly bitter dispute over the WTO's Information Technology Agreement (ITA), which abolished duties on a number of high-tech goods from July 1997 to encourage trade. read more  Publ.Date : Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:15:56 -0400
The ins and outs of search can be fascinating; there are all sorts of little tricks and statistics to learn and track. That said, some perspective is also useful, and so a session at SES San Jose ran with the broad title of "Search Industry Update." read more  Publ.Date : Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:34:17 -0400
Here's some good news for Google, T-Mobile, and a certain device manufacturer: the FCC has approved the HTC Dream (A.K.A. the first "Googlephone") for sale. And it looks like that launch may occur around November 10th. read more  Publ.Date : Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:41:44 -0400
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