Internet from balloons is getting around to AT&T and T-Mobile customers on Puerto Rico as the recovery from two powerful hurricane continues.
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Pichai: initial Pixel 2 sales double from original Pixel’s rate
There's one piece of good news for the Pixel 2 as sales from day one are way up from the Pixel. But it's just day one. What now?
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T-Mobile joins Project Loon effort over Puerto Rico
AT&T has already been distributing its service through balloons high above the island through Project Loon's special signal.
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Project Loon flies over Puerto Rico, iPhones to take special advantage of Band 8 LTE
Alphabet is providing the "towers," AT&T is providing the service and Apple is providing the capable for iPhones to connect better on the storm-torn island.
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Alphabet X lab retains Project Loon, despite incorporation
The chief of Loon, Inc. makes it clear that it's not here as a charity effort forever, but it has yet to leave Alphabet's moonshot "X" lab.
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Project Loon service approved to serve recovering Puerto Rico
The balloon-based cellular transmission project from Google parent Alphabet will deliver 900MHz service in partnership with local carriers.
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What does Google’s partnership with HTC mean for you?
HTC is struggling to reach 1% market share, and Google is selling directly to consumers. What does Google's partnership with HTC mean for you?
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Google steps up health monitoring efforts with latest startup acquisition
Health monitoring is clearly a bigger and bigger research focus for both Apple and Google, with the latter now the proud owner of an impressive startup.
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Essential Android: Alphabet exec confirms Andy Rubin sticks with his homebrew
Specifically, Rubin's homebrew. Since he was one of the creators of Android, it wasn't exactly a surprise that his smartphone would sport it, but...
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Lyft sought a buyer with $9 billion and Uber claims it’s only worth $2 billion
Number two ride-hailing app Lyft has been looking to better compete with top dog Uber while fending off newer transit startups like Bridj. And so, after nine funding rounds and a company valuation of $5.5 billion, it went to look for an owner.Would General Motors increase its investment of Lyft to a controlling stake? Nope. According to Recode‘s sources, it didn’t make a ...
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Oracle and Google head into Android Java retrial
“After an earlier run at settling this case failed, the court observed that some cases just need to be tried. This case apparently needs to be tried twice.”That’s what a US District Court judge in San Francisco said after settlement talks broke down between Oracle, the company that owns the Java API, and Google, which used JavaScript in building its Android operating system.The first trial, dating back to 2012, ended in a mistrial as a hung jury couldn’t decide whether Google’s fair use argument ...
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Nest CEO wants to address work culture with Alphabet over lunch
Nest has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently. In addition to disappointing financial returns and making ill will from the acquisition of Dropcam along the way, The Information has been reporting on multiple cases of just plain bad work culture that would have heads at HR spinning.Tony Fadell, CEO of the troubled IoT company, decided to make himself available to staff at Google and Alphabet to ...
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Nest may be disappointing Alphabet when it comes to cash
Would Alphabet put down what Google picked up? Or will things change to a major degree? Either Amazon has become the Internet of Things hub or Nest is stuck in a tide pool where a slow rise just isn’t enough.In 2014, Google had purchased the smart thermostat-maker for $3.2 billion. The terms of purchase allowed key employees to retain their positions ...
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Apple declared most valuable brand by another research firm, Samsung ranks third
The biggest, most profitable corporation in the world cannot be stopped from printing money by the FBI, the US Department of Justice, future American president Donald Trump or the developers of the number one search engine.Google, or rather Alphabet, will occasionally exceed Cupertino in NASDAQ market capitalization, but when it comes right down to it, ...
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Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt stirs up controversy by casually using iPhone in public
What’s more embarrassing for a tech giant’s big kahuna – getting “caught” in public while nonchalantly rocking a rival device and thus indirectly endorse said product, or unintentionally revealing a major weakness of a gadget you’re supposed to be using and promoting?Hard to say, but it’s safe to assume Eric Schmidt will react far less furiously to his latest PR gaffe than Tim Cook ...
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