Today morning T-Mobile set out a more detailed launch schedule for their new HSPA+ USB mdoem, the webConnect Rocket. The USB stick is compatible with Mac and PC and is supposed to deliver 21 Mbps data transfer speeds.  The T-Mobile webConnect Rocket will be available from March 14th either from their online store or in Philadelphia-area retail shops, where the carrier’s first HSPA+ service is going live. It will cost you $100 to buy the stick along with a two-year data contract.

The Opera Mini 5 beta version of the mini browser is already available on BlackBerry devices, Windows Mobile 5 & 6 laden handsets and phones that can run Java applications. At the time the beta version was released, Android was fairly new, but with its popularity now, the Norwegian browser company had no choice but to release an Opera Mini 5 beta for the Google OS as well.

The nifty mobile browser on the Android OS is similar to Opera Mini 5 beta for other handsets where the major improvements include speed dial, tabbed browsing, password management and better optimization for touchscreen phones.

If you’re interested in Internet-related technologies, the name Cisco must surely mean a lot to you. And you’re probably one of the many eager to find out what the newest announcement by the company is going to be. Well, today your wait has come to an end, as Cisco announced a new generation of Internet routers, designed for the world’s currently largest Internet service providers, the CRS-3.

Verizon is all set to start off its 4G LTE network deployment in the US later this year. They are still running tests networks in Boston and Seattle and they are reporting being able to coax out as much as 40-50 Mbps downstream and 20-25 Mbps upstream bandwidths.

A research group have been developing a modified version of the Firefox browser, introducing an ability to view 3D graphics directly from within the browser. This effectively means that web designers will be able to utilize 3D in the design of their websites, paving the way to a new era of web browsing.

Google SearchWiki will be remembered as a search engine feature which turned into a fiasco within a span of 16 months and now the internet giant has decided to replace it with a more friendly and less complicated-starred results. SearchWiki was a feature for logged-in users who could annotate and re-order search results and as per Google, the users who did have some SearchWiki edits shall be able to preserve them despite the starred results replacement.

Starred results or simply ’stars’ will enable users to bookmark most frequently visited pages and therefore those pages will appear automatically in case of similar keyword searches in the future.

Following on to the unexpected calamities in Chile over the last few days, the 8.8 on the Richter scale earthquake and the many lost lives, Google has launched a special website called Person Finder: Chile Earthquake.

Many of the major US broadband carriers such as Verizon and AT&T offer pre-paid mobile broadband plans. In most of these cases, you have to buy a 3G-capable phone or USB modem upfront and then pay for the bandwidth as well. Telava has unveiled a new device today called the Broadband Bullet, which offers PrePaid 3G connectivity without having to buy the device itself.

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Walmart has made the plunge into online movie rentals. The movie rental business scenario has been long been eyed by the retail behemoth and it is now that an opportunity has come knocking. Walmart is close to pocketing Vudu, a Silicon Valley startup that is into streaming movies to television sets by way of TV partnerships.

With Google introducing the Buzz, it is not just the social networking giants that are feeling the heat, even direct competitors like Microsoft are worried. In an attempt to stay avant-garde, Microsoft has announced the Outlook Social Connector which will sync Outlook with LinkedIn initially while Facebook and MySpace will be hooked in later. The Outlook Social Connector will bring social networking into the inbox. The service will be directly comparable with the Google Buzz as Microsoft is not looking to do anything different by the apparent status however, differing features might be added later on.