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Canada’s four wireless players are maneuvering for advantage reports the Globe and Mail. It would represent a failure in the government’s years-long push to create more competition in the wireless business, according to the Globe and Mail.
Engadgetreports a fleet of camera-equipped, remote-controlled blimps are live-streaming Google I/O on YouTube, right now, It’s called Google AirShow and it’s taken over the airspace within Moscone Center.
Google Play for Education marks an entirely new addition to the Google Play Store. Google Play for Education is like an app store designed especially for teachers with some powerful management tools built-in.
New wireless customers are choosing no-contract over contract by 10 to 1, reports Fierce Wireless. The 10 to 1 margin in favor of prepaid in the first quarter is quite significant, says Roger Entner.
Today Google announced they’re buying a quantum computer from D-Wave Systems. NASA’s Ames Research Center will host the computer at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, which will house the machine.
According to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), Google has committed to updating Android with support for Bluetooth Smart (also known as Bluetooth Low Energy) “in the coming months.
There were so many new things announced at Google I/O opening keynote yesterday, let’s review the stories from C/Net, Engadget, The Verge, Android Authority, ComputerWorld, GigaOm, and TechCrunch.
Google I/O kicks off with a three-hour-long keynote address Wednesday morning. Among the rumored announcements are a new Google Maps interface, Bluetooth 4.
The future will see “real-time entertainment” dominate fixed access networks, accounting for two-thirds of total data usage in 2018, driven largely by ubiquitous integration between smart TVs, set-tops, game consoles and streaming services,” according to market researcher Sandvine.
Gladstone, Missouri is the next city to get Google Fiber. Google announced Fiber would be coming to the nearby town of Shawnee, Kansas on May 3rd, and now has Sprint’s headquarters in Overland Park virually surrounded.