Verizon’s CFO Fran Shammo spoke at the JP Morgan Media and Telecom conference this morning, providing further detail on their plans for shared or family data tiers. During his conversation, he mentioned the end of grandfathered unlimited data plans , but before that he talked specifically about these shared tiers.
Conversations with a Finnish Journalist
May 15, 2012 Updated at 7:34 pm
With Nokia’s Lumia 900 launch well underway, I have gotten a lot of questions from the press about Nokia, Microsoft, Nokia’s marketing strategy, Microsoft’s marketing strategy, and its chances of success. The most interesting was a conversation I had with a Finnish journalist.
Three Ways Facebook Can Leverage Mobile To Grow Their Revenues
May 15, 2012 Updated at 6:00 pm
Editor’s note: Hussein Fazal is CEO of AdParlor , an ad management and technology company for Facebook campaigns. AdParlor manages over 1 billion daily ad impressions on Facebook for clients such as Ubisoft, SEGA, Groupon, OMD and Starcom.
Alliance for Broadband Competition forms to sway opinion against Verizon’s AWS acquisition
May 15, 2012 Updated at 1:04 am
The effort to prevent Verizon Wireless from its purchase of AWS licenses from SpectrumCo and Cox just became a bit more intense, as several opponents to the deal have now banded together to form the Alliance for Broadband Competition. The coalition includes T-Mobile and Sprint, along with advocacy groups such as Public Knowledge, the American Antitrust Institute, the Rural Cellular Association and the Rural Telecommunications Group.
Remember Jitterbug Phones For Seniors? Here’s The iPad Equivalent
May 14, 2012 Updated at 9:29 pm
Remember Jitterbug , the big-buttoned phones for seniors that made using those confusing, new-fangled cellphone thingies so much easier to handle? Well it looks like someone has gone out and built the equivalent for the iPad.
Samsung Exynos 5250 Spotted in Google Git Repository, Are They Collaborating Again on the Next Nexus?
May 14, 2012 Updated at 6:46 pm
Developers who follow Google’s back-end work religiously noticed within the last few days, that edits were made to their Git repository which included references to Samsung’s Exynos 5250 dual-core chipset. That would be the Cortex A15 based processor with the Mali T-604 GPU inside, aka the SoC that we are all hoping would end up in the Galaxy SIII (Exynos 4412 with Cortex A9s and a Mali 400 GPU).
Even With That Crappy Name, I Want the Asus Padfone
May 14, 2012 Updated at 4:50 pm
I’ve never actually touched the device, yet I’m enamored with it. I’m talking about the Asus Padfone .
With Its New Google+ App, Google Finally Gets It Right
May 13, 2012 Updated at 9:33 pm
Some people just love Google+ and others just hate the company’s efforts to create a social network and a social layer across all of its services. Google itself seems to be pretty happy with the results it is getting from Google+ so far – or at least that’s what the company is saying publicly.
Do You Trust RIM?
May 13, 2012 Updated at 7:04 pm
RIM is in a heap of trouble, but you wouldn’t know it from the attendance at BlackBerry World in Orlando earlier this month, where literally thousands of people packed a giant conference room to hear CEO Thorsten Heins’ keynote address, meet with RIM account teams, and attend developer events. These weren’t just holdouts from RIM’s government or enterprise base, either; RIM allowed BlackBerry World alumnae to skip some lines, and the “SpeedPass” lines were 20x shorter than the regular ones.
Me, Android, and my Mom [opinion]
May 13, 2012 Updated at 1:07 pm
Today being Mother’s Day, I couldn’t help but look back and think of the role my mom has played in my life so far. It’s kind of difficult not to when people keep sharing this beautiful P&G advertisement on Facebook.