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This story is must read for all your “texters” out there (myself included) - man, if you don’t have some sort of SMS plan or hopefully unlimited plan, you’re screwed!
Verizon and other cellphone companies mark up the cost of text messages by at least 7314% when compared to their rates for data transfer services.  —  […]

 
Yahoo will begin offering unlimited storage for its free Web-based e-mail in May, the company announced late Tuesday.  The move makes Yahoo the first of the major free e-mail providers to offer unlimited storage, but it likely will not be the last. [via]
Shoot, I may switch back to YahooMail now. I gave up on them […]

LG Electronics, a leading worldwide provider of advanced wireless handsets and accessories, and Google today announced a global collaboration to pre-install Google’s services on millions of LG mobile phones. Mobile users around the world will now be able to easily search for information, find locations, update blogs and manage email while on the move.
Read the […]

Apple has done it … from PC to TV they have just begun shipping their latest and greatest technical advancement into the entertainment arena, the AppleTV.
There’s a little video here (Wallstreet Journal) on how they setup and tested the new AppleTV
More at http://www.apple.com/appletv/

Google announced today the testing of a advertising model called Pay-Per-Action, or PPA. “It’s important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that Google controls so much of the online advertising market that just about anything they do in advertising has real consequences around the Internet.” - Michael Arrington
TechCrunch […]

Google announced they have just released “six themes for the personalized homepage that try to solve these challenges: a city, a teahouse (super cute — this one is my favorite), a winter scene, a sky, a beach and a bus stop. All of our themes are dynamic: they change with your own local […]

YouTube will announces the launch of “YouTube Video Awards” - a late attempt to honor the best-user generated videos of 2006.  The seven categories are Most Inspirational, Most Creative, Best Series, Best Comedy, Musician of the Year, Best Commentary and “Most Adorable Video Ever.”
Read the official news.

Wow, Footnote is an impressive resource which launched last week that allows users to access and annotate millions of historical documents online apparently for the first time.  Interested in the Civil War or perhaps the Federal Bureau of Investigation? Just look it up on Footnote and within seconds you can view digitized copies of the […]

Gigaom reported today that Viacom is sueing YouTube for $1 billion.
The ever delightful Mike Masnick over on Techdirt pointed out that young companies innovate, and old timers litigate. One is reminded of his words when reading about Viacom’s decision to YouTube-Google and seek a billion dollars in damages for copyright infringement. Cynthia Brumfield describes […]

Cerulean Studios is the creator of Trillian, an installed desktop instant messenger app that lets you connect to multiple IM networks simultaneously, but they are looking to move into the Online world that Meebo has already well established themselves in.
I’ve been a diehard Trillian user since they first launced in 2000. Their app has always […]