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Mar 24

Google Pushes FCC to Develop TV Airwaves for Web

Google sent a letter to the FCC continuing to press its case to allow technology companies to develop unused TV airwaves to provide wireless Internet access.

In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, the Internet search giant pressed the government to open up the white space for unlicensed use in hopes of enabling more widespread, affordable Internet access over the airwaves.

“As Google has pointed out previously, the vast majority of viable spectrum in this country simply goes unused, or else is grossly underutilized,” Richard Whitt, Google’s Washington telecom and media lawyer, wrote in the letter.

Google said the white space, located between channels 2 and 51 on TV sets that aren’t hooked up to satellite or cable services, offer a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to provide ubiquitous wireless broadband access to all Americans.”

In addition, opening up the spectrum would “enable much-needed competition to the incumbent broadband service providers,” Mr. Whitt wrote.

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Feb 5

100 Things to do with Google Maps Mashups

100 cool things you can do with Google Maps Mashups. My favorites:

  1. Find Fast Food in the US
  2. Find a WiFi Hotspot in the US
  3. Map US telephone area codes
  4. Google Map your blog or website visitors
  5. Check the time in a world location.

What are yours?

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Dec 4

Verizon Embraces Google’s Android

It is premature to remove Verizon from the list of anti-tech companies, but this is certainly a step in the right direction.

In yet another sudden shift, Verizon Wireless plans to support Google’s (GOOG) new software platform for cell phones and other mobile devices. Verizon Wireless had been one of several large cellular carriers withholding support from the Android initiative Google launched in early November.But given the stunning U-turn Verizon Wireless made Nov. 27, announcing plans to allow a broader range of devices and services on its network, Chief Executive Officer Lowell McAdam says it now makes sense to get behind Android. “We’re planning on using Android,” McAdam tells BusinessWeek. “Android is an enabler of what we do.”

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Oct 24

IMAP for Gmail

Finally!

To get started, you must first enable IMAP in your Gmail settings.

To enable IMAP in your Gmail account:

  1. Log in to your Gmail account.
  2. Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
  3. Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
  4. Select Enable IMAP.
  5. Configure your IMAP client* and click Save Changes.

iPhone setup instructions:

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Step by step instructions

Update: Some additional setup instructions to properly setup folder with Gmail labels and also setting up Junk, Sent and Draft can be found at http://5thirtyone.com/archives/862

Update 2: Here are some recommended settings for Gmail IMAP

As a general rule, we suggest the following.

Sending:

  • Do NOT save sent messages on the server. If your client is sending mail through Gmail’s SMTP server, your sent messages will be automatically copied to the [Gmail]/Sent Mail folder.
  • DO save draft messages on the server. If you want your drafts in your mail client to sync correctly with your Gmail account’s web interface, set your client to save drafts to the [Gmail]/Drafts folder.

Deleting:

  • Do NOT save deleted messages on the server. Messages that are deleted from an IMAP folder (except for those in [Gmail]/Spam or [Gmail]/Trash) only have that label removed and still exist in All Mail. Hence, your client doesn’t need to store an extra copy of a deleted message.
  • Do NOT save deleted messages to your [Gmail]/Trash folder because this will delete a message in all folders.
  • Do NOT save deleted messages to your [Gmail]/All Mail folder as some clients will try to empty this folder and ultimately fail. This can lead to delayed mail access or unnecessary battery consumption on a mobile device.

Junk mail and spam:

  • Do NOT enable your client’s junk mail filters. Gmail’s spam filters also work in your IMAP client, and we recommend turning off any additional anti-spam or junk mail filters within your client. Your client’s filter will attempt to download and classify all of your existing messages, which may slow down your client until the process is complete.

For your specific mail client:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892

Feb 16

Top 10 Largest Databases in the World

Business Intelligence Lowdown (now Focus) has ranked the top 10 databases in the world.  They are:

10. Library of Congress
9. Central Intelligence Agency
8. Amazon
7. YouTube
6. ChoicePoint
5. Sprint
4. Google
3. AT&T
2. National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
1. World Data Centre for Climate

The number one was certainly a surprise and the source of the article makes me a bit sceptical.  I can’t figure out who they are nor what they do.

Searching around a bit more I found a couple of glaring omissions. 1) Wal-Mart and 2) NSA.   There is a USA Today article which talks about both in some detail, obviously more is know about Wal-Mart’s database than what the NSA is doing with all those supercomputers and petabytes of storage.

Feb 15

How Google was Founded – the Sergey Brin Story

One of the most complete write ups of Google’s Co-Founder that I’ve ever read. “How the Moscow-Born entrepreneur co-founded and changed the way the world searches”

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