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This article was written on January 12, 2007 by CyberNet.

The Verizon FiOS network is getting a speed boost!There’s lots of competition going on between different networks these days.  It’s always a race and a competition of who can offer the fastest speeds.  Verizon just upped the speeds on their FiOs network which currently has 522,000 users. Now they are offering 50 Mbps (as though 30 weren’t enough) downstream and 5 Mbps upstream.  Previously, their top speed offered was 30 Mbps on the downstream.

As the network speeds keep getting faster, it also seems that the prices just keep climbing as well.  No price has been set, however $179 is what they currently charge for 30 Mbps.  These higher speeds are only available in certain states (they’ve also just added a few), like New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Road Island. I don’t know of anyone yet that has FiOS available in their area, so I’m still left to wonder if it’s worth the money! Just think, you could download 1 gig in about 2 minutes and 44 seconds.  Those speeds may sound too good to be true, which could be because there are still many websites that can’t support download speeds that fast.  Impressive nonetheless.

News Source: Gigaom

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Are you a huge fan of the Game of Thrones miniseries? Are you extremely intrigued by what goes on in each episode, and there are plenty of subplots as well as twists within so much so that it can be pretty difficult trying to figure out who does what next. This shows that the miniseries itself is a triumph in writing and storytelling, as it rivets you to the edge of your seat without much effort. Having said that, I am quite sure that plenty of people are curious to find out just what season four of Game of Thrones has in store for the masses.

While we are aware that the first official trailer for season 4 of Game of Thrones will air on HBO in just a couple of days’ time, that is, January 12, before the series premiere of the new HBO drama, True Detective comes on, patience might not necessarily be the strongest suit in some of you. Hence, why not take a sneak peek of what is to come with the technology known as Vine? Several Vines have already been created to give you a better idea on the season four trailer, and it will include show footage. As to whether spoilers are contained within, we do not think so, but see this as more of an appetizer.

Game Of Thrones Vines From Season 4 Trainer original content from Ubergizmo.

Late last year rumors started circulating that Sprint, owned by Softbank, was interested in acquiring T-Mobile. The former is currently the third largest mobile carrier in the U.S., and even if it did end up acquiring T-Mobile, it still won’t be as big as Verizon or AT&T, but it would have a better chance of competing at a wider scale. Sprint wasn’t T-Mobile’s first suitor, Magenta accepted AT&T’s $39 billion takeover bid back in 2011 though it fell through due to regulatory concerns. Last year T-Mobile made a few bold moves, positioning itself as a bonafide player in the industry, and it seems to want to continue that momentum independently.

During a press conference yesterday, T-Mobile CEO John Legere laid down the law, saying that the “T-Mobile brand and people will stay.” According to him, all of the rumors are about spectrum, Sprint would certainly get its hands on a lot if it were to acquire T-Mobile, but Legere says T-Mobile will continue to pursue purchase of even more spectrum. Earlier this week it finally announced its much rumored spectrum swap deal with Verizon, getting its hands on lower frequency spectrum that was collecting dust over at Big Red. The CEO believes that this particular U.S. industry “needs a change agent,” and that there’s potential for T-Mobile as an independent carrier. The carrier certainly has made a few changes, it did away with conventional service contracts, offers free global 2G data roaming and will now pay your early termination fees if you decide to switch over from your current carrier to T-Mobile.

T-Mobile Doesn’t Seem To Be Interested In Being Taken Over By Sprint original content from Ubergizmo.

Now here is a spanking new app from Twitter’s co-founder known as Jelly, where the Jelly app will be able to deliver an answer to your question, although it will retrieve such an answer from your friends. Biz Stone announced the launch of Jelly, a new kind of startup which has been operating in stealth mode for approximately a year. This particular mobile app is available on both iOS as well as Android-powered devices, where it has been specially programmed to answer people’s questions with the help of photos and their current networks of friends.

In a nutshell, all you need to do is to capture a picture with your handset, write down a short caption that will best describe the question, and follow it up with a post. Sounds too easy, right? Hopefully the answers that you receive will be worth reading, and I am quite sure that some hilarious gems will pop up in screenshots in due time. For instance, asking “Worth reading?” might see an image of George Orwell’s “1984″ appear. What do you think of an app like Jelly, and will it be strong enough and not wobble in this highly competitive arena? You can also connect it to your Facebook and Twitter accounts, now how about that for a greater level of interaction? [Press Release]

Jelly Social Search App original content from Ubergizmo.

If you have been keeping an eye on your Facebook newsfeed or lounging about in reddit, you might have noticed a photo go by, which is a photo of a truck with what appears to be a huge box from Amazon on the back. Naturally some were wondering if this could be real, and more importantly does Amazon even have a box that big? Naturally some were calling this a hoax. Even comedian Jerry Seinfeld thought it was a fake as well, but as it turns out it is real as an Amazon spokeswoman was recently confirmed that the box is indeed real.

In a email, Amazon’s Kristin Schaefer Mariani wrote, “Yes, it’s real. [I]t’s Nissan delivering a Versa Note, the final component of the advertising program we worked with them on late last year.” There were some who speculated that this could be the case, but we guess no one really thought that Amazon would actually deliver said vehicle in a box packaged that way. Then again Amazon’s boxes are sort of iconic, even spawning toys such as Danbo which is a little toy figurine whose body is made using Amazon’s boxes. Now that we know that the box is real, we have to wonder if Amazon might have even bigger boxes in their factory. What do you guys think?

Amazon Confirms Giant Box Found On Reddit Is Real original content from Ubergizmo.