Now before we go any further, I’ll make known that I understand Google isn’t Android and Android isn’t Google. Google just so happens to be one of the biggest OHA members who puts the bulk of marketing dollars behind the mobile OS. With that said however, so far Google has been Android. Any Android device you pick up that’s been labeled a “Google Experience” device as been stuffed full of Gmail, Google Maps, Googlve Voice, etc. A...

Wireless carriers form partnerships and deals with various 3rd parties all of the time. For sake of the next 35 seconds of your life, we’re going to focus on the software side of things. If you happen to have a BlackBerry running on Verizon, fire up the ‘ol BB Browser running the latest firmware and take a look in the search box. Chances are you’ll see “Bing” in grayed out incognito colors. RIM going Bing only is one possibility. Though so...

You may recall a particular article we posted yesterday that delt with a potentially disturbing problem affecting Hotmail/MSN/WindowsLive email users. For a quick recap, someone posted the account and password information for over 10,000 Hotmail/MSN/Live email on a forum post in Pastebin.com, a site used for developers to share code snippets. That problem just became everyone’s problem as BBC is now citing that it wasn’t/isn’t just Microsoft based email...

Firefox users and Yahoo frequenters, do you see anything different when mixing the two previously mentioned items? Look a little closer. If you’re using Firefox and navigating Yahoo, take a look at Microsoft’s Yahoo’s new suggestion: “Switch to the new, safer Internet Explorer 8″. Well, there’s a few problems with this suggestion. First, IE 8 is newer, but not brand spanking new. Second, safer is debatable. And third, IE 8 while one...

In what can be a sad revelation and truth to come to terms with, the U.S. of A. is not as steadfast in their “free internet” beliefs outside of home grown soil. While the internet in the U.S. is uncensored, and hopefully will remain that way for…..ever, it seems we have different motives elsewhere. When you take a step back and look at the bigger picture, the west *that’s the U.S….among others* is one of the top providers and supporters of...