Archive for month: October, 2010

If you’re keen for the QWERTY hotness that is the T-mobile G2, then I recommend you head on over to Amazon, as they have the phone for only $99 (on a two-year contract).

If you’ve been waiting for the G2, Amazon is giving you all the excuse you need to pick up this badboy.

Something people have been waiting for since the first T-Mobile, Android handset was launched is finally going to be available… Yes, Wi-Fi calling is hitting Android devices on T-Mobile. We have reached out to T-Mobile for clarification, as this doesn’t seem to be a normal UMA implementation (as rumored); it’s powered by a new application and we don’t think Wi-Fi to cellular handoffs will work. With that said, T-Mobile’s Wi-Fi calling capability is a great feature nonethenless, letting you make calls over a Wi-Fi signal when there is no cell service, and even making international calls abroad for free. The service will roll out on the new T-Mobile myTouch when the device is released later this year as well as support the Motorola DEFY. Full press release after the break!

I continue to be impressed on how Tmobile is innovating. I thought they were going to be out to lunch a while ago, but it’s good to see they are fighting for their market share.

Google is using its vast database of web shopping data to construct the ‘Google Price Index’ – a daily measure of inflation that could one day provide an alternative to official statistics.

The work by Google’s chief economist, Hal Varian, highlights how economic data can be gathered far more rapidly using online sources. The official Consumer Price Index data are collected by hand from shops, and only published monthly with a time lag of several weeks.

I’m still trying to recover from the shock of reading that the Consumer Price Index is collected BY [FREAKING] HAND from shops and “…with a time lag of several weeks”.

This is why Government needs to get out of everything that’s not purely a government function (e.g. law enforcement, judicial, military). This is stupefyingly shocking to me.