Throttling data speeds is nothing new. Just about all the major carriers are doing it. As smartphones penetration increases, carriers need a way to manage all the bandwidth that’s being sucked up by those phones. If they don’t, connection speeds will slow to a crawl. AT&T has had network congestion problems for a long time and it’ll probably get worse once the new iPhone arrives. To remedy that, AT&T is rumored to start slowing data speeds for some of its more data hungry users.

Google has taken steps to speed up website loading times before, but its new method is different. Google calls it Page Speed Service and it’s open to any webmaster that wants to give it a try. Google’s methods for speeding up the webpages are a bit sketchy though.

It’s hard to believe that less than two years ago we were dealing with smartphones with 192MBs of RAM and 528MHz processors. Now we question any new phone that doesn’t have a dual core processor. The rate of how fast smartphone technology is improving is enough to make anyone question purchasing a new device. There’s a reasonable fear that a more powerful model will be released within a few months. We hope you don’t get too attached to your top-of-the-line smartphone because by next year, processing speeds will double once again.

Despite the recent announcements of AT&T buying T-Mobile the latter company won’t just stop making improvements. To help kick off CTIA T-Mobile has announced that it will be doubling it’s 4G data speed. The speed increase means that T-Mobile’s 4G network will theoretically be able to reach 42 Mbps. The first markets to get the more »

Meet the world’s first GPS-equipped goggles, according to Zeal. The new Transcend Googles ($399-$499), feature a variety of functions viewable on a virtual sign that appears to be 6 feet away. The goggles are the result of collaboration between Zeal and Recon Instruments. The Transcend Goggles feature the ability to report speed, distance, hangtime, location, more »

The HTC Glacier has been floating around the blogosphere mainly in rumor posts. But now we have a little more information regarding HTC’s new monster. As you can see from the image above, the Glacier has been benchmarked and absolutely blown away other phones. Both the Evo and Vibrant were running processors clocked at 1 more »

Despite my fanboy like affection for the Pre, and my desire for it to be a perfect phone, there are still some complaints coming from users. One of which that is often heard mentioned is dealing with sluggishness in webOS. Of course, to be fair, I would say webOS is not the only to hear more »

If you’re like me, having a slow Internet connection is maddening. Should it really take that long to load a site like ESPN? That’s why I went with a service that offers 20Mbps down; I thought that was fast.

Charter has come out with its new service called Ultra60. As the name suggests, they are offering 60Mbps down. Upload is only 5Mbps. Sounds like an awesome connection — except when you hear the price. Ultra60 costs $139.99 per month.

I just unboxed and installed Adobe Photoshop CS4, so I’m ready to offer some first impressions on the PC version.

Speed

Photoshop CS4 seems a lot faster than previous versions. There are many things that frustrated me in CS3 that no longer are present. In CS3, it was kind of clunky when you wanted to drag a window outside of the main Photoshop window, but in CS4 it’s quick and fluid like you would expect.

Another performance boost that I noticed is the menu system. The menus in Photoshop are huge, due to the insane amount of filters and features they provide, so it’s easy to see why the menu system could be a bit sluggish. Right away, I noticed that the menus load immediately, and the application launches a lot quicker.

Keep reading for more on the new CS4.

Everybody hates being caught by speed cameras: it is annoying, humiliating and also expensive, and that is why Novus have come up with the “Mini Coyote” which allows drivers to alert others of speed cameras in as little as three seconds. The little gadget will sit on your dashboard, and when you spot a speed camera that isn’t already in the database you press the handy button and before you know it everyone with that gadget knows of it.

“Brilliant!” I hear you cry, finally a way to beat those money grabbing machines, which it does quite effectively. Although this idea isn’t new, the super speed at which it does it allows the community of users to quickly build up a good idea of where all the speed traps are due to the fact that it only takes 3 seconds. The little gadget will then tell you if you are approaching any speed cameras, your speed, and will tell you to slow down if you are going too fast thus avoiding a fine.

Plenty more after the break.