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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Thanks, iPhone: 2,000 Percent Increase in Bay Area Data Traffic Since 2008, Says AT&T

att_iphoneBay Area iPhone users, relief is on the way. AT&T has almost completed a $65 million upgrade to its network in the region. The carrier has upgraded close to 850 cell sites in an effort to better handle the massive surge in data traffic it has seen in and around San Francisco since the debut of iPhone. And make no mistake: The surge has been massive.

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Friday, November 6, 2009

Is Verizon’s New Early-Termination Fee Anti-Consumer?

verizonetf_2Beginning Nov. 15, Verizon subscribers looking to get out of their smart-phone contracts early will pay $350 for the privilege. That early-termination fee is double the current one, but Verizon insists it’s justified because of the higher prices of today’s phones. An interesting move for a carrier that just last year agreed to pay $21 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by California consumers over the very early-termination fees it is now increasing.

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Sirius Turns a Corner?

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Sirius Breaks Even

sirius-150x150Sirius XM Radio’s financial position is improving. Sadly, the same cannot be said for its subscribership. Reporting earnings this morning, the company broke even in its third quarter. Good news, but it was tempered with a bit of bad. Because Sirius’s subscriber growth is slowing.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Apple Finally Gets Around to Updating Apple TV

movies_hero20091014It has been about two years since Apple last released a major firmware update for its Apple TV platform, so the release of Apple TV 3.0 today will come as welcome news to those who own the device. 3.0 is largely as rumored: Adding support for both iTunes LP and iTunes Extras.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Microsoft’s Bing Deal

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Sonos All-In-One Music System: There’s an App for That

sonoszoneplayers5-lgWell, this is a first. Sonos, the company responsible for the wireless multiroom audio system of the same name, is today debuting a new piece of hardware designed for an iPhone app, rather than the other way around.

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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Weekend Update: 10.10.09–The Textplosion Edition

Sometimes life’s irony smacks you in the face. Sometimes BoomTown smacks you with it instead.

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

AT&V

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Apple’s Tablet: Read Different?

apple-ebookTo be taken with a grain of salt: Apple’s long-rumored tablet will arrive at market early next year and will feature a 10.6-inch panel designed with e-books in mind. This according to the occasionally accurate DigiTimes.

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Apple Products Popular Among Teens With Wealthy Parents

freaks-n-geeks_l4If the teen demographic is a critical indicator of a company’s long-term growth prospects in the consumer electronics and online music markets, Apple has nothing to worry about. Because according to the results of Piper Jaffray’s 18th biannual Teen Survey, Apple devices continue to do well with American teenagers.

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Monday, October 5, 2009

Verizon to iPhone Users: “Want Five Times More 3G Coverage? There’s a Map for That.”

verizon-anti-ATTad“Want 5 times more 3G coverage? There’s a map for that.” That’s the cheeky slogan of a new Verizon ad reportedly set to debut during tonight’s Monday Night Football game. Riffing on the tagline from Apple’s iPhone commercials, it essentially turns widespread complaints about the quality, coverage and speed of AT&T’s network into one grand Verizon marketing campaign.

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Apple Challenges Woolworths Over Logo Similarities

apple_woolworthsthumbWoolworths Supermarkets describes its new logo as “an abstract leaf symbol” intended to represent fresh food. But to Apple, the stylized “W” looks far too much like its own namesake fruit, which could be problematic should the supermarket chain someday decide to peddle its own brand of consumer electronics. And so Apple is petitioning IP Australia, the local agency that governs trademarks, to reject the Woolworths application for the mark.

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Saturday, October 3, 2009

Palm Ignores USB Group’s Warning, Restores iTunes Sync

jobswpredieOh, it’s really on now. This morning Palm announced webOS 1.2.1, another point release to its new webOS platform that restores media synchronization with the latest version of Apple’s iTunes (9.0.1). Moreover, the company has gone the extra step of extending that synchronization feature to photos.

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Palm Throws in the Towel on iTunes Synch

itunes_noprePalm has begun rolling out webOS 1.2.0, a minor point release to its new flagship operating system, which boasts some 70 improvements. Notably absent from this update: The reenabling of iTunes synchronization, which Apple spannered when it released iTunes 9.0 earlier this month.

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