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AT&T Doubles Down On Upgrade Fee, Reminds Us Why They’re Last In Customer Satisfaction

Cult of Android — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:00:42 +0000

Starting Sunday AT&T customers will be faced with a $36 fee for upgrading to a new device. This is a 100% increase from the current fee of $18! You ask yourself why, why would AT&T impose a 100% increase on a fee so outlandish that the majority of carriers wave? I say it’s to make [...]

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NOAA ditches BlackBerry for the iPhone and iPad

Jake Smith — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:24:57 +0000

The United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (via The Loop) is turning the tide in its IT department. Doing what many companies are doing these days, NOAA plans to ditch RIM’s BlackBerry in favor of Apple’s iPhone and iPad. NOAA’s support for the BlackBerry will end May 12, 2012, according to a memo sent [...]

Google building "home entertainment system" for wireless music streaming

Jon Brodkin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:35:00 +0000

Google is building a "home-entertainment system that streams music wirelessly throughout the home and would be marketed under the company's own brand," according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal. While the move has no...

Study shows Android handsets depreciate in value faster than iPhone

Chris Rawson — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:00:00 +0000

The iPhone has always had a robust market for used handsets, with even older models still getting rather good returns for their former owners. Priceonomics has done a study of the used smartphone market and compared the depreciation in resale value f...

Google Could Take 2.25% Of Every iPhone Sold After Motorola Acquisition

Cult of Android — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:10:58 +0000

Google has sent letters out to various standards organizations, including the IEEE, promising to honor MMI’s patent licensing policies after it completes its planned acquisition of the company. This includes honoring MMI’s maximum go-forward per-unit royalty rate of 2.25%. This is the same rate MMI is asking Apple to pay in order to lift the [...]

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Google Promises To Honor Motorola’s Licencing Standards After Acquisition (This Includes Fees Imposed On Apple)

Cult of Android — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:10:58 +0000

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Want To Sell Your Next Phone? It’s Not Worth It Unless It’s An iPhone

Ryan Faas — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:32:13 +0000

Your brand new car starts losing value the second you drive it off the dealer’s lot – that an old (and very true) addage. Like a new, a new piece of technology begins to lose value or depreciate as soon as you leave the store. With cars and with major tech purchases like a [...]

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Chutzpah: Google also wants 2.25% of every iPhone sale

Philip Elmer-DeWitt — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:02:06 +0000

It's not enough that Google borrowed the phone's look and feel to make Android?

From Google's IEEE letter. Source: FOSS Patents. Click to enlarge.

It took a Techmeme news cycle for the import of Google's (GOOG) letter to the IEEE -- the nonprofit organization that sets technical standards for everything from AC/DC converters to Wi-Fi networks -- to sink in.

Early reports praised the company for joining Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT) MORE

Amazon’s back just in time for summer with their ‘can’t read an expensive iPad in the Sun’ ads

Jake Smith — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:01:55 +0000

Related articles Supposed iPad 3 case compared to iPad 2, suggests bigger battery and different screen and camera (9to5mac.com)

Is your smartphone a good investment? If it’s an iPhone, yes

Erica Ogg — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:21:04 +0000

Priceonomics, which keeps track of the resale value of items like cars, bikes and gadgets, published a report Wednesday that shows how the value of iPhones, Android phones and BlackBerrys hold up over time. Short answer: iPhones, even years-old models, retain their value the longest.

Should Business Embrace Apps Or Settle For The Mobile Web?

Ryan Faas — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:20:00 +0000

Often the first and biggest question that confronts any company developing a new mobile presence (or revamping an existing one) is whether to focus on developing a native app or a mobile web site. While each approach has its pros and cons, one way to decide may be to look at how users are accessing [...]

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Google reportedly developing Android-powered smart glasses

Ryan Paul — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:05:35 +0000

Much like flying cars and jet packs, wearable computing is one of those aspirational fields of technology where the current state of the art doesn't deliver the sort of experience that people have imagined for decades. An experim...

The three patents Microsoft is hammering the Nook with—and why they may be invalid

Jon Brodkin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:22:00 +0000

Microsoft's complaint against Barnes & Noble's Android-based Nook devices has been narrowed down to just three patents, with the US International Trade Commission having to decide whether Nook devices infringe on severa...

Google (finally) brings Chrome to Android

Ryan Paul — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:36:48 +0000

Google is finally bringing Chrome to the Android platform. A beta release of the increasingly popular Web browser was published this morning in the Android Market and is available to users who are running Android 4. The por...

How The iPhone Saves Money For Businesses (And Why Android Can’t)

Ryan Faas — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:54:52 +0000

A big challenge for businesses and organizations is cost management, particularly in the current economic climate. Many companies are trying to maximise their budgets – one of the big factors pushing the BYOD trend. Where BYOD isn’t feasible, however, businesses may still have the need to support mobile professionals – and need to do so [...]

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