July 30, 2010 2 Comments
If you missed the top 10 I blogged about a few weeks ago, check them out here. And, here is the list from 11 through 20 top paid executives in America:
11. James Hyde
Ntelos Corp. CEO
Salary: $385,284
Other Compensation: $5.6 million
Total Compensation: $6 million Read more of this post
July 20, 2010 Leave a comment
The most interesting one is Clearwire CEO, Bill Morrow. I have been covering them since the launch of Awesome DC. Given the company is losing money, burning about $500 m annually, far from being profitable, their mommy, Sprint just announced they are considering LTE as their future strategy; which in a way, it’s the sign of slowly saying goodbye to all the $$$ billion they already invested in WiMAX, Bill is number 6 in the list!
Either I am clueless in this business or someone is on crack at Clearwire 
Which one is it?
No. 1 Randall Stephenson, AT&T CEO
Salary: $1.45 million
Other Compensation: $27.8 million
Total Compensation: $29.3 million
July 17, 2010 1 Comment
The new Droid family, Droid X, hit Verizon Wireless stores on Thursday. So, those of you iPhone hater, here is your chance to switch.
The Droid X is Motorola’s latest Google Android device, featuring a 4.3-inch screen, 8-megapixel camera, HDMI out put and more (check out our hands-on look at the Droid X video and photo capabilities). Read more of this post
July 10, 2010 16 Comments
ComScore released its May numbers for U.S. smartphone owners over the age of 13 yesterday. According to comScore, 49.1 million Americans owned a smartphone from February to the end of May, which is an 8.1 percent increase from the previous three-month period ending in February.
All other major smartphone OS platforms, including Palm, Microsoft, RIM, and Apple, dipped while Android has grown significantly – rose 4 points from February to 13 percent.
RIM retains its lion’s share of the market with a 41.7 percent share that saw a small drop of 0.4 points from February. Apple slipped 1 point to 24.4 percent while Microsoft dropped 1.9 points to 13.2 percent. Rounding out the top five was Palm, which dropped 0.6 points to 4.8 percent. Read more of this post
December 15, 2009 Leave a comment
It didn’t even take 12 hours from my last post about Google’s plans to take on iPhone, telecom carriers, Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL that I just heard another juicy News related to that. Based on what I was just told by a few friends who work at Google, their company might be able to take on a few the wireless carriers even earlier than I had predicted.
Apparently, Google handed out a new type of smartphone called Nexus One to their employees just a few days ago – Software, Hardware, the Operating Systems and listen to this, the backbone wireless network are all made by Google! Double WOW! So, yes, it will be a Google brand smartphone that could really hurt wireless carriers. It is a good News for us, the consumer regardless. The phone has a larger screen. The touchscreen device uses the new version 2.1 of Google‘s Android operating system. Other manufacturers also using Android operating system include Samsung and Motorola, and the DROID on Verizon Wireless last month.
Not quite sure when their phone is going to be released to the market, but certainly, I will stay on top of it and keep you all posted. Watch this News. They have their own carrier as supposed to partnering with an exiting wireless carrier – like T-mobile or Verizon!!! Have no idea how they got their own wireless backbone infrastructure. Will find out.
Google‘s ‘Nexus One‘ the New iPhone?
December 15, 2009 Leave a comment
I heard about Google Android phone (an iPhone competitor) over a year ago and, I ended up buying one:-) Awesome phone BTW!
Then, I heard about Google Wave (an email, SMS, twitter, and facebook competitor). I tried to get a beta account, not much luck. It is due to be released next year.
Then, it came Google Voice and recently their 911 call functionality. I got that that one too
It is obvious where Google is heading. It seems to me, they plan to take on everyone – Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, my fat Mama, and telecom companies. Well, taking on Apple, Yahoo, and Microsoft has been going on for past several years or so. Taking on the telecom companies where my educational and half of professional background is from, WOW! That is amazing! Thanks to the power of Internet and Voice over IP.
Certainly, 2010 is going to be an awesome year for Google – particularly for their Android operating system. Because, there are now 20,000 apps available for you to download from their AndroLib site and it is growing fast. Based on all other goodies they offer compare to their competitors, I won’t be surprised in a few years Apple gets out of mobile phone business, Microsoft shuts down their newly launched Bing decision search engine, AOL and half of present telecom service providers close down for good. It will be fascinating to watch their war with iPhone of Apple. Note that Apple is just about a mobile phone and computer operating system, computer, and internet browser. Google has a couple of those items plus search, google wave and google voice. You own the search and telecom, you own the world. Besides, Google Android is now on many more handset than Apples’.
What’s even more fascinating, is how Google took many of the other traditional mobile phone companies and their operating systems providers like Windows Mobile and Symbian totally off guard and quick. I think they did a fantastic job playing Trojan Horse of the 21st Century.
Google Android G2 T-Mobile Phone
Motorola Droid Verizon Wireless Phone
Apple iPhone
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