The Windows Phone 7 sales numbers have still not been released and this is causing many to wonder what is going on with sales of the Windows Mobile OS phones. Microsoft has been more than will to talk about numbers about Kinect, but when it come to the Windows Phone 7, they keep referring to [...]
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Verizon Eliminates New Every Two Years Discount Program
One of the great things about being a Verizon customer is that every two years, you were able to renew your contract and purchase a new phone with an included discount of $100 after the subsidized price. This was a fantastic program and made it another reason to be with Verizon Wireless. Yesterday, news came [...]
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Skype Making All The Right Moves For Growth
On Monday, Skype announced another milestone where they had 27 million concurrent users. This announcement has come just about two months after they had reported 25 million users Skyping concurrently. These numbers are quite an accomplishment, especially in light of the competition with Google and their Google Voice product. This Luxemburg based company believes in [...]
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Verizon iPhone Announcement
Today is the day of the new Product Announcement by Verizon in New York City. There has been so much reported on this and it appears that it will be a live event by numerous outside of the mainstream media. We can expect to see video feeds of the event on many web sites and [...]
Monday, January 10, 2011
Sony PlayStation Phone Details Emerge
Pictures and specifications of the anticipated, but still unannounced, Sony PlayStation Phone emerged last week not from CES, but from a Chinese website. The Chinese website IT168 has posted dozens of pictures of a smartphone labeled Sony Ericsson and marked with the XPERIA logo. The deviceâs most distinct feature is a slideout controller with d-pad [...]
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Verizon iPhone Rumors â Where Is Apple?
The rumors and articles about the iPhone coming to Verizon have been circulating and continue to do so. There is so much energy being generated about this, it would be great if we could tap into for some other purpose. People are working over time to out guess each other. One of the things that [...]
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Verizon Press Announcements â Speculation Of Verizon iPhone
Reports of invites to a press conference by Verizon Wireless have been going around this afternoon. MG Seigler at TechCrunch received an invite to the January 11th event in New York City. Many are speculating that this is going to be “THE” announcement for the iPhone coming to Verizon with sales starting as early as [...]
Friday, January 7, 2011
Blackberry Playbook At CES And Coming To Sprint In The Summer
The coming Blackberry Playbook has been shown off at the CES show in Las Vegas this week and it has been receiving very positive comments. Previously, RIM has had very tight controls on the Playbook and did not allow many to touch the tablet until this week. Videos of individuals being able to hold and [...]
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Verizon iPhone Rumors Continuing
It seems that the rumors for the iPhone coming to Verizon just will not go away. Today, CNet is reporting that an unnamed source has told them that the iPhone will be arriving in February at Verizon. They included the next Apple product launch event on 01/01/2011 as evidence that it is coming. It seems [...]
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Blackberry Playbook Coming Out For CES
The Blackberry Playbook will be having a coming out party at CES in Las Vegas or at least that is what RIM wants everyone to believe. They have posted two videos, which you can see at CIO to see what it is all about. The first video is previewing some of the features of the [...]
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
MetroPCS Introduces Lower Rates For 4G LTE
Rate plans for 4G services are expected to go up to cover the associated costs with installing the new technology along with the faster transmissions of data to mobile phones that it provides. Today, MetroPCS announced new rate plans that everyone will take notice of, especially their existing customers. As a wireless carrier in the [...]
Monday, January 3, 2011
China Enters 2011 with Tighter Internet Censorship
As 2010 drew to a close Beijing announced it had shut down over 60,000 Chinese pornographic websites the government considers offensive, capping off a year of new website restrictions imposed on the largest Internet population in the world. State-run Xinhua news agency reported last week that 350 million pieces of indecent images, videos and articles [...]
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Most US Internet Users Willing to Pay for Online Content
According to a report by Pew Internet, 65 percent of Americans surveyed have paid to access digital content over the Internet. The types of intangible content being purchased include music, video, software, news articles and applications for mobile devices. For many, the Internet is synonymous with âfreeâ, but the study shows that Americans are quite [...]
Saturday, January 1, 2011
iPad 2 Could Have USB Port â Rumor
Since this is the end of the year, the rumors are coming out and we have another one as to what the iPad 2 will be like when it is released in April. Previous reports (rumors) indicated that the iPad 2 would not have a USB port and today we have a report (rumor) that [...]