January 2, 2012 1 Comment
Here is the list of the first person, company, product, service, and question of the year 2012 that were awesomized on awesomize.me! believe it or not At&t made it in the list 
October 5, 2010 Leave a Comment
As we reported back in mid summer, Qualcomm will finally shutter its FLO TV mobile TV subscription service by the end of this year. After hesitantly entering the direct-to-consumer side of the space just a couple years ago, Qualcomm is now cutting its losses on that front and is in the process of shutting down FLO TV.
The company is reportedly in talks with distribution partners AT&T and Verizon about the future of FLO TV, which launched via partners in 2004 and debuted its direct-to-consumer version in 2008. Read more of this post
September 21, 2010 Leave a Comment
AT&T’s mobility, the new DataConnect Pass was launched with its first options for prepaid data yesterday. The plan gives those with built-in 3G in a notebook the option of paying for just a short stint of data without having to commit to a contract. Its rates carry a premium for the freedom at $15 for 100MB of data over the course of a day, $30 for a week pass with 300MB of data and a full month with 1GB for $50.
It’s unknown if or when prepaid data will be available for stand-alone modems; it already exists for the iPad. Read more of this post
September 19, 2010 22 Comments
Both AT&T and Verizon are moving forward with their 4G/LTE networks in 30 US cities, with one launching by the end of the year and the other going commercial by mid-2011. And, with the approval of the first LTE phone by the FCC, the door is opening for flood of new LTE devices. Read more of this post
August 18, 2010 13 Comments
Glad to see Jon Stewart is also on the same page on Net Neutrality. If you are new to the subject, I suggest you read my last coverage on the it before watching the segment below. Read more of this post
August 14, 2010 19 Comments
Now that AT&T has also decided to join Google and Verizon with their controversial proposal to kill the net-neutrality, it is time to put a leash on these guys before it’s too late.
Those of you new to the subject, here are the recap: Read more of this post
August 13, 2010 2 Comments
AT&T and RIM’s BlackBerry Torch hit the stores this week. The new device marks the first to ship with version 6 of BlackBerry’s OS which is very important launch for RIM.
Although, RIM has finally realized, the larger the display screen, the better, but the company totally missed the phone’s mojos – a) the processor which is only 624 MHz, b) the low-resolution screen! It’s way too slow compare to other smartphones in the market – in particular iPhone 4.
Check out the processors and resolutions on their competitors here: Read more of this post
August 10, 2010 4 Comments
As Apple getting reading to become a swinger and ends her three years exclusive relationship with her man, At&t, AT&T is gearing up to assure their suger daddies, the investors that the Apple’s threesome or possibly foursome with other carriers will not have a “material negative impact” on their earnings.
Although, most media and bloggers are not buying At&t’s arguments listed below, but I think the company has a case here. Here is why and how: Read more of this post
August 9, 2010 Leave a Comment
As we are getting closer to the end of exclusivity between At&t and iPhone, Apple has been busy customizing its iPhone to work on networks run by other carriers. The company is gearing up to sell their smartphone either via Verizon or Sprint by early next year.
From various sources including a very good friend of mine who works at Qualcomm, it looks like Apple has ordered millions of CDMA chipsets from Qualcomm. CDMA is the wireless technology used by both Verizon Wireless and Sprint. This means we are going to see either Sprint or Verizon on iPhone sometimes next year – Jan or Feb 2011. The two carriers are the main players in CDMA space. Read more of this post
August 2, 2010 Leave a Comment
The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM), a collaboration between big media and ad agencies, is considering using the device as a meter to record media consumption as part of a new study, According to The Wall Street Journal.
Given the high demand for smartphone – particularly, the iPhone I blogged yesterday, in the new world, it is the iPhone that is poised to be the anchor of a new initiative to measure media consumption that covers the landscape-from TV to digital media delivered through mobile phones and computers.
CIMM is in talks with the Media Behavior Institute on conducting a study that would see 1,000 participants outfitted with an iPhone equipped with a diary application, which could record their location and the media they are consuming every half-hour. The CIMM has a budget of about $1 for the study. Their members include AT&T, CBS, NBC, News Corp., Omnicom, Unilever and Disney. Read more of this post
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