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Archive for December, 2011
Insert Coin: A look back at ten top projects from 2011
Posted: 31st December 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: Amazon, Android, Bbb, Border Color, Choice Section, Coin Series, Deluge, Devs, Duds, Eager Investors, Editors Choice, Enormous Variety, Iphone, Kickstarter, Sans Serif, Seed Money, Superdrive, Swill, Tech Startups, Winner Details
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Freight Train Kept A-Rollin’
Posted: 31st December 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: 30 Million, 3gs, 4s, Activations, Apple, Contract Market, Fires, Flagship, Fragmentation, Freight Train, Iphone, Iphones, Market Share, Mid Level, Nooks, Numbers Don, Train Kept A Rollin, Ubs, User Experience, Wanted Gifts
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2011 was the year of Android. A little over a year ago Andy Rubin tweeted that 300,000 Android devices were being activated each day. In January we reported that Android had surpassed iOS in terms of US smartphone market share. In June Android’s activations-per-day reached 500,000; this month they hit 700,000. That’s more than double [...]
Mobile Miscellany: week of December 26, 2011
Posted: 31st December 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: 31 Dec, December 26, Miscellany, Mobile World, Nbsp, News World, Sat, Stuff
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This week may not have been incredibly packed with news in the mobile world, but it was still easy to miss a few stories here and there. Here’s some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of wireless for the week of December 26, 2011: Continue reading Mobile Miscellany: week of December [...]
Mobile Miscellany: week of December 26, 2011
Posted: 31st December 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: 31 Dec, December 26, Miscellany, Mobile World, Nbsp, News World, Sat, Stuff
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This week may not have been incredibly packed with news in the mobile world, but it was still easy to miss a few stories here and there. Here’s some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of wireless for the week of December 26, 2011: Continue reading Mobile Miscellany: week of December [...]
AT&T-branded Nokia Ace possibly leaked in holiday card
Posted: 30th December 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: Ace, Amp, Bell Logo, Chop, Engadget, Fri, Grain Of Salt, Heck, Holiday Card, Holiday Greeting, Job, Lumia, Mango, Nbsp, Nokia, Source Link, Tango, Windows Phone
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The grain of salt we’re taking this with is roughly boulder-sized but, we have an image of what may very well be the AT&T Nokia Ace — the rumored LTE-sporting Windows Phone from the Finnish phone maker. It seems that someone sent out a holiday greeting featuring a phone that looks a heck of a [...]
Damn It Google, Where Are My Magic Android Lightbulbs?
Posted: 30th December 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: Alarm Clocks, Back To The Future, Dishwashers, Favorite Music, Flick Off, Friends, Gadgets, Google, Home Stereos, Initiative, Iphone, Launch, Led, Lightbulb, Lighting Systems, Luminescence, Magic, Mobile Os, Smartphones, Superiority
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Back at Google I/O in May, members of Google’s Android team unveiled a new initiative that’s going to extend the mobile OS beyond smartphones and tablets — and take us one step closer to Back to the Future II. Dubbed Android@Home, the project aims to bake special hardware and software into a variety of gadgets, [...]
Verizon backs down from convenience fee, values your two cents
Posted: 30th December 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: Break, Ceo, Convenience Fee, Engadget, Fcc, Fri, Mead, Nbsp, People, Press Release, Single Payment, Subscribers, Two Cents, Verizon, Verizon Wireless
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The people (and government) have spoken and Verizon has listened — and issued a press release. The carrier has officially backed off of the “single payment fee” that drew almost universal ire amongst subscribers and nabbed the attention of the FCC. Says Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead, “we believe the best path forward is to [...]
Verizon’s $2 convenience fee inconveniences the FCC
Posted: 30th December 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: American Consumers, Autopay, Carrier, Convenience Fee, Engadget, Fcc, Federal Communications Commission, Fri, Giant Companies, Nbsp, Nyt, Payment Convenience, Verizon
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Just like hard working humans, giant companies like to get paid consistently and on time for services rendered. But Verizon’s method for motivating customers to pay up — in the form of a $2 convenience fee — isn’t sitting so well with consumers, or the FCC. A Federal Communications Commission official confirmed that the fee [...]