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An interesting yet thoroughly predictable finding resulting from a survey taken by the website Broadbandchoices.co.uk, as reported by the BBC today, is the overwhelming demand for fast and high-quality digital downloads of feature-length films. Why interesting? Why predictable? Well, clearly consumers wish to have their Web connections and cloud-based services provide easy access to great [...]

Boy, were the rumors off the mark or what? Though we failed to cover the buzz surrounding the supposed imminent purchase (now debunked) of LinkedIn by News Corp, for the fact that we simply have a finite supply of writers here at Profy and only so many hours in the day in which we are [...]

Red Herring late last week published a speculative piece questioning Google’s candor in seeking the 700MHz spectrum to be auctioned in January. The article’s author, Cassimir Medford, pondered whether the Web giant truly does seek the “C” block it now officially claims to crave, or simply wishes to instigate a disturbance in the world of [...]

I’ve been known to rag on Yahoo! here at Profy far more often than praise or glorify the company. But hey, as the saying goes, you gotta call ‘em as you see ‘em, right? And the media on the whole has rightly pilloried the Web giant for a number of its controversial actions and statements; [...]

Last month, the world registered a rather noticeable rumbling made at a technology conference in Bangalore. A rumbling having to do with the development of India?s own silicon-based industry. A rumbling in the way of a collective challenge posed by influentials in attendance at the gathering. The challenge was a simple one, but no doubt [...]

It’s safe to say that a good portion of the world resides in a 3G era. It's here in North America. It's over there in Europe, and Asia. And in numerous pockets elsewhere. Wireless broadband, though short of being a quantitatively “mainstream” convenience (in the way, say, domestic DSL and cable Internet services are today), [...]

We all knew the memo would come. It’s the last day of November, and Google’s decided it fitting to top its monthly quota of announcements off with an official notice of intent to “apply to bid for wireless spectrum” in the new year. The collective reaction from the public? Finally. Yes, the message has been [...]

Facebook’s gotten some major flack for its controversial Beacon utility. The addition was made to the network some weeks ago, and since then the company has been forced to contend with a barrage of less-than-sparkling reviews from tech critics, frosty feedback from annoyed users having witnessed their product consumption choices writ large upon their pages [...]

Yesterday, TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley published a post highlighting the news of Google’s feature enhancements and additions to the company’s Maps utility. And he proposed a question: “Is Google Earth on borrowed time?” Now, I’m sure some of you are thinking that such a query doesn’t hold much ground. That Google Earth is hardly symmetrical to [...]