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A few hours ago the news broke that AT&T has agreed to purchase rival mobile carrier T-Mobile for $39 billion. As that news sinks in the big question becomes - is it good for consumers? AT&T says that the U.S. wireless industry is “one of the most fiercely competitive in the world, and will remain so after this deal.” I
This past Friday we got some information on the new Amazon App Store, which will, supposedly, be launching on Tuesday March 22nd. The store will be available on the Amazon website and also as a mobile app. Mostly what we know are still rumors. Amazon will take the same 30 percent as other app stores like iTunes, Google, and Microsoft.
For full disclosure, I am not a user of Twitter. I have a Twitter account and dabbled in it a year or so ago, but haven't logged on in months. I am, however, a daily user of Facebook. Eventbrite recently concluded a study of Tweets and facebook posts as connected to event sales showed that facebook "likes" resulted in higher
One of my biggest beefs with the Kindle (I have the Kindle DX first gen) is that I cannot see page numbers. Considering the DX was made for textbooks and professional manuals, the lack of a page number of any kind makes the device relatively useless. "Turn to page 329 in your text" does nothing for me, I have to
I am a big consumer of podcasts I listen to them mostly on my iPhone , however I am not a big fan of the way iTunes handles podcasts. First it is slow to update, many times a Web site has a podcast available but it will not show in iTunes till the next day or even later. Syncing
Your going to love this one, I get on the Soap Box and stay there for a good bit in the show today. Fools and their wasted money is the theme. Plus I place a wager on a specific companies new initiatives failing. I also want to welcome our newest insider, thank you for supporting the show it is greatly
Britain's The Telegraph was one of a few organisations to be given early access to the iPad before its launch and Tim Rowell, Director of Mobile Product Development at the Telegraph, reports on some of the thinking that went on as the team developed the first apps for it. Initially, it appears that the plans were for a "all encompassing
I just started using Wuala a secure online storage available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Wuala is developed and run by LaCie a French provider of external storage. All your files are encrypted directly on your computer before its sent on line. Your password never leaves your computer, not even Wuala has it, so it is important that you keep
In a press release yesterday, The Carphone Warehouse announced that it had sold one million Android handsets in Europe with a year-on-year growth of 2000%. The Carphone Warehouse has been a strong supporter of Android with exclusive arrangements on handsets such as the Samsung's Nexus S and a similar deal on the forthcoming Motorola Xoom tablet.
Google announced today another update to their online Docs software. If you haven't used Google Docs, it basically an online Office-type application that beat Microsoft to the punch. Docs is great for online collaboration and cloud storage. The latest update allows users to graph multiple ranges and the ability to hide sheets. Graphing multiple ranges can be done by clicking
The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism has released its eighth annual of State of the News Media 2011, a fascinating review of the news media over the past year, showing that news has reached a tipping point (if it hasn't already tipped) with more news read on-line than in print. In the last year alone, on-line news reading grew
I have had AT&T DSL for about 12 years now. I've upgraded once, from a standard (all that they offered) plan to a top-level plan that promised us 10 mbps down and 6 mbps up. Two years ago I dropped our landline and kept the DSL. We have had minimal problems with our DSL here, while neighbors have ongoing problems
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