Tag: data
Nest Acquires MyEnergy
Nest the maker of the smart thermostat that allows you to remotely change the temperature via your iPhone, the company has recently acquired MyEnergy as per usual neither of the companies have disclosed the details of the deal. A press release said that the acquisition will help Nest reach its goal of helping its users [...]
T-Mobile’s New ‘GoSmart’ Plan Being Tested In A Few Markets
T-Mobile has been in the headlines just about everywhere you like, and rightly so. They’ve had a lot of great announcements, promotional material and etc. This topic seems to fit right in with what we’ve been hearing this past week as well. The company announced that they would be removing subsidized pricing from their handsets starting [...]
Millions Of AT&T Customers Overpaying For Data
AT&T’s data has been a hot news item as of late. They recently lost a small claims lawsuit by a customer who was throttled even though he had unlimited data for the iPhone. Now, a study reported via consumer reports revealed that over half of AT&T’s customers may be paying too much for data. The [...]
Shhhh T-Mobile Adding Mobile HotSpot To Some Data Plans For A Limited Time
One of the big benefits from rooting your Android phone is the ability to access wireless hotspot/tether without paying your carrier. All four carriers offer mobile hotspot via a native Android setting in versions 2.0 and higher. There has been an ongoing debate on whether or not it’s kosher for carriers to charge for a [...]
Sprint Ends Premiere Program Altogether.
Internally Sprint is promoting a “season of change” to both their employees and dealer partners. Earlier this week we reported that Sprint was doing away with their “bill to account” feature and now it looks like they’re premiere program. Sprint’s premiere program allowed Sprint’s best customers to get an annual upgrade rather than having to [...]
Sprint Says Goodbye To Bill To Account
Sprint’s been making a lot of changes these days. They recently raised their ETF fees and now it looks like they are saying goodbye to Sprint’s Bill To Account feature. Bill To Account was a benefit for customers with good Sprint credit. Basically if you had been a Sprint customer for 90 days and paid [...]
Google Chromebook Verizon Wireless Data Pricing
As we all know the next installment of ChromeOS is headed to two new laptop devices called “Chromebooks”. Both Samsung and Acer are the launch partners for the new Chromebooks. The Samsung Chromebook launched this month and the Acer Chromebook launches in July. Both devices come with integrated 3G data capabilities powered by the Verizon [...]
Android Out Does iOS When It Comes To Data According To Nielsen
Nielsen has released new data today regarding Android and the amount of data owners use. According to the report, Android owners use quite a bit of data over other platforms. On average owners of Android devices download around 582MB a month, which is only a little bit more than half a gigabyte. While owners of [...]
Verizon Considering Shared Data Plans?
It looks as if Verizon is following in AT&T’s footsteps and has dropped their unlimited data plans for tiered structure. While this may sound like bad news there is a ray of hope. Verizon has also shown evidence that they may soon be offering shared data plans. While speaking at the Reuters Global Technology Summit, [...]
SAI Receives Leaked Emails: Andy Rubin: Tracking Data Very Important
Business Insider has received some leaked emails from Larry Page that highlight how vitally important the location based tracking data is to Google. The emails obtained from Larry Page and other top Google Executives show that they need mobile tracking data to pick up where street view cars left off. Business Insider is reporting, via [...]
Walmart offering best deal for mobile data
Say it ain’t so Sam! The cost conscious behemoth giant Walmart is teaming up with Virgin Mobile to offer the biggest data bang for your buck. Virgin Mobile, one of Sprint’s low cost prepaid services (the other is Boost Mobile) currently offers $40/mo for unlimited data and $10/mo for 100mb. Now for the cost conscious [...]
CTIA – Enterprise and Application 2010 was all eyes on Android!
For those unaware of it’s purpose, CTIA is a trade show designed to put Business owners of all shapes, sizes, and backgrounds in front of the cutting edge of all the varying forms of technology. It’s massive audience comes here to see what the latest and greatest is, and how it can be incorporated into [...]
Millennial Media shows big August numbers for Android!
One of the more tired arguments I have heard recently is that Android is not out to target Apple. I hear that Android is here to target RIM, or Windows Mobile, or even Palm. Understand this pretty clearly, Android is scaling to be above everybody, and to hide behind any other statement is a joke. [...]
