Foursquare hit the three million user mark over the weekend, less than two months after the location-based service passed the two million users mark in July. This success comes despite predictions Foursquare would be crushed by Facebook’s recently launched location-sharing feature called Places. But Foursquare’s recent user milestone suggests Places may actually be helping [...]

Sprint’s Virgin Mobile announced on Tuesday an overhaul of its Broadband2Go mobile broadband service. The carrier plans to offer a new contract-free, unlimited mobile broadband plan for $40 per month, and Virgin Mobile will also phase out most of its current tiered mobile data plans.
The new broadband plans will be available for purchase online [...]

After confessing one of his own mistakes, Crazy4laptops asked the Windows forum about other members’ “not so smart moments with computers?”
I thought I’d share two of mine:

1) I once beta-tested a new backup program (this was in the late 1980s when we backed up to floppies) and liked it so much I started using it [...]

Now that’s fast. Verizon has completely a field trial on its fiber-optic FiOS network, in which it delivered bandwidth approaching 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) to business customer in Taunton, Massachusetts.
The demonstration, conducted in June via Verizon’s gigabit passive optical network (GPON), was designed to show that today’s FiOS equipment can support higher bandwidth–including 1Gbps [...]

AT&T recently said it supports the Google-Verizon net neutrality plan that would prevent wireless networks from being subject to neutrality regulations.
Ralph de la Vega, CEO of AT&T Mobility, recently called the plan a “reasonable framework.” Later, Joan Marsh, AT&T’s Vice President of Federal Regulatory, wrote about the proposal and the need for unregulated wireless [...]

Despite a high degree of opposition, Google is defending its net neutrality proposal co-authored with broadband and wireless provider Verizon. The search giant on Thursday issued counterarguments on six points (Google calls them myths) that the company believes have been misunderstood about its proposal. Google says the proposed framework defends net neutrality, would [...]

I find it hilarious that the head of AT&T wireless referred to Google and Verizon’s net neutrality proposal as a “reasonable framework,” because for mobile broadband, it isn’t much of a framework at all.

On Monday, Google and Verizon announced a joint proposal to the Federal Communications Commission for how the Internet should be regulated. They [...]

Criticism continues to build against Google and Verizon’s net neutrality proposal as interest groups, bloggers, and even Google fanboys start discrediting the plan. At issue is the idea that broadband carriers would be free to create a two-tiered Internet. First, there would be the normal Internet we have today where [...]

Reader Brenda has noticed that the Wi-Fi at her local library has slowed considerably in recent months, and she’s wondering what’s causing it: “Is it our computers, bogged down with too much junk, or is it something to do with the library’s system?”
Given that you cite multiple computers as exhibiting the same slow connectivity, chances [...]

Surprising no one, Motorola will swap the original Droid phone with the Droid 2 on Thursday, when it launches on Verizon Wireless.
The Droid 2 looks a lot like its predecessor and also has a 3.7-inch screen and 5-megapixel camera, but it gets a faster 1 GHz processor, a better physical keyboard with raised keys, 8GB [...]