CNET's Marguerite Reardon takes a look at a startup that could allow wireless customers who are prohibited from filing class-action lawsuits to hold big companies like AT&T accountable when they violate their contracts.
Google says its new wireless service will operate on a much smaller scale than the Verizons and the AT&Ts of the world, providing a new way for relatively few people to make calls, trade texts, and access the good old internet via their smartphones. But the implications are still enormous.
Google revealed on Monday it will soon start “experimenting” with wireless services and the ways we use them—and that’s no small thing. Such Google experiments have a way of morphing into something far bigger, particularly when they involve tinkering with the infrastructure that drives the internet.
I wish I could get Google Fiber... but I get the almighty TWC monopoly instead.
Don't look for Google to run a large-scale network. Instead it's teaming up with wireless carriers, as it does with hardware makers for Nexus devices.
Maximum PC: Imagine for a moment being able to transfer the entire contents of a Blu-ray disc or five DVDs over a wireless connection in a mere two seconds. Impossible, you say? For the everyday user and consumers at large, that's true. Heck, it might take more than two seconds to toss a set of DVDs across the living room. But for Professor Ingmar Kallffass and his fellow researchers, that type of wireless speed just became possible.
