Did AT&T get a sour apple when it snagged the iPhone?
Maybe. AT&T’s exclusive right to offer Apple’s smart phone over the past two years has attracted new customers, and at least initially enhanced the phone company’s image. But it is difficult to know whether those benefits are worth what have been some considerable costs, both short and long term.
Sales of the Palm Pre smartphone may be creeping up to 30,000 a week this week versus a prior trend of 25,000, writes Pali Capital analyst Walter Piecyk in a blog post this morning.
I continue to think of my iPhone not as a phone but as a personal computer. Which is why I continue to be so nonplussed about Apple’s barring of some applications on the grounds that they compete with its own apps, and others at (reportedly) the behest of AT&T.
AT&T said Monday that its weekend block of 4chan was due to an attack on one of its customers and not because of the popular site’s content.
In a statement, the telecommunications provider said that a business customer, which it declined to name, was the target of a denial-of-service attack on Friday.
Comcast is now on the iPhone bandwagon. On Thursday, Comcast, the largest cable operator in the U.S. by subscribers, announced a free application for the Apple device that lets customers check their Comcast email and home voice mail as well as surf their TV schedules.
The hacking of Twitter CEO Evan Williams’s email account has sparked an ethics debate after TechCrunch said that it would publish some of the confidential documents that the hacker leaked.
Videogames often get criticized as a waste of time, but tech companies are using them to solve complex business problems. So-called “serious” games can help businesses understand what their customers need, spark ideas and make key product decisions.
I’m an ex-AT&T “Bell head,” so anything telecom always gets my special attention. When I saw the Google Voice re-announcement recently, I couldn’t help wondering, “Huh, what’s up with that? How does this fit into Google’s core business?” Mostly, though, I was interested in understanding why this and why now.
For most people (including me), privacy policies fall into the same category as “terms of service” documents–they contain important information, but are usually so long and impenetrably written that they’re not worth the effort of reading.
Apple introduced its latest iPhone, the 3GS yesterday.
If you ask Apple or AT&T how much the iPhone 3G S costs, they’ll emphasize two prices: $199 for the 16GB version and $299 for the 32GB one, as Apple does here.
For many quarters now, telco giants Verizon and AT&T have suffered sharp declines in the residential wireline business, but have been bailed out by the rapid growth of their wireless businesses.
Qwest plans to announce a new wireless Internet offering that lets broadband customers access AT&T hotspots around the country.
The deal, whose terms are undisclosed, gives Qwest customers free use of some 17,000 wireless areas on AT&T’s network, including locations at Starbucks and McDonald’s.
Mobile gamers, the jig is up–-now we know what you were really up to during that conference call.
In a survey of 1,100 AT&T wireless customers, 57 percent said that they play games on their mobile devices, and half those gamers admitted to playing during work hours.
Given the buzz surrounding Verizon’s smart-phone efforts lately, it’s useful to review all the recent reporting and size up what looks most likely.
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