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i/o 2012

Extreme keynoting: How Google pulled off its skydiving stunt

Sergey Brin stormed on the stage in his Google Glasses like Iron Man Tony Stark, prepared to give the crowd of 5,500 developers what he called an "awesome" display of technology and daredevil live action.

He gave the play-by-play as a troop of skydivers, bikers, and rope rappellers converged on the Moscone convention center, in a scene that could have been the opening sequence of a "Mission: Impossible" movie (if it wasn't part of Brin's Google I/O Glass demo). 

The skydivers made jumping out of an airship look easy. But before … Read more

RSVP required: Google sends first-ever Google+ Events invite

Google's Vic Gundotra wasn't kidding when promised he'd send 6,000 party invites using the just-launched invitations feature in Google+.

Not long ago the invitation from Google's senior vice president of engineering popped up in my inbox, looking suspiciously like a Google+ comment, but with a map you can hide or reveal, some event details, a drop-down RSVP menu, and a couple of fields for entering your name.

There's also plenty of room to write comments, +1 comments you like, and check your availability in your Google calendar. Click another buttons and you're launching … Read more

Verizon's new data plan burns singles

Today we're rocking out in the cloud to take our minds off our mobile bills:

Verizon has completely restructured nearly all of its phone plans with something called a Share Everything Plan. The plans will give you unlimited text and unlimited voice. As for data, you have to pay for how much data you want a month. Then you have to pay another fee for each device that will use that pool of data.

Verizon is encouraging you to have multiple devices that can all share from the same plan, but it can make your bill more expensive if you're an individual. … Read more