Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
TechCrunch reports a rumor that AT&T will sell 3G iPhones with 8GB at $199 in US. That would mean a $200 discount from expected $399 price.
AT&T must be doing some numbers and verifying that ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) for iPhone is significantly higher than the average. This would be ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Telecom | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Advertisement can be an important source of revenue to Mobile telcos. And 2008 can be the year where it takes off at last. Still some of the mobile ads practices risk to be perceived as spam, specially SMS ads, where the telco should protect users with spamming filters.
While Mobile TV ...
Posted in New Economy, Telecom | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 28th, 2008
While Internet TV enjoys the hype, the reality is that Telco's IPTV is growing steady, while Apple and Amazon keep mum on their movie download service numbers.
Every week we have news of players entering Internet TV or existing players reinforcing their offers. This week ReadWriteWeb reports news fron Netflix with ...
Posted in Internet, New Economy, Telecom | No Comments »
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Just google "Vista sucks" and you get 2.5 million results. It is now unanimous: Vista is slow, unstable and annoying. Apart from my Commodore 64 and the OS/2 Warp of my days in IBM I have always used Windows: 3.11, 95, 98, 2000, XP and now Vista. So if ...
Posted in Digital Home | 4 Comments »
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Apple has presented results for the past quarter. Apple shipped 2.3 million Mac computers in the quarter, 51 percent year-on-year growth, with a revenue increase of 54 percent. iPod sales were flat compared to last year with 10.6 million units sold. More financial details on GigaOm or TechCrunch.
Mac is quickly ...
Posted in Digital Home | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Nokia keeps its race with Apple to reach agreements with the record labels, in order to bundle content with the sale of devices.
NY Times, Nokia signs Sony BMG for Free Music Offering, reports that Nokia will offer 12-month access to music downloads from SonyBMG catalog, to buyers of Nokia music ...
Posted in New Economy, Telecom | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
The videos of BarelyPolitical.com are becoming more and more funny, and more and more seen.
One dutch TV channel interviewed these guys
As Ben Relles describes, this would not have been possible in 2004, even if Internet was already extremely popular by then. This phenomenon today is empowered by Web 2.0, and ...
Posted in Internet, New Economy | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 21st, 2008
April 2018. DIGooGle makes popular a GigaCrunch post: Microsoft Apocalypse
Vista was the beginning of the end. A few years after its launch, the debacle was inevitable. First the SMEs and SOHO abandoned Microsoft when it stopped Windows XP support. By that time Google had launched G-Enterprise, consisting of Google Apps + ...
Posted in FictionPrediction, Internet | 1 Comment »
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Thanks to KDDI Lismo music service, 90% of the digital music sales in Japan comes from mobile, according to Wireless Watch Japan. The Record Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) has reported 2007 figures, with total sales increasing for third year in a row, and with an spectacular 91% increase in ...
Posted in Asia Pacific, New Economy | 1 Comment »
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Add GMail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Salesforce.com and Skype in a package. Is there a better value proposition for SMEs and SOHOs for their IT and Communications infrastructure?
Add a Linux distro for the business desktop, supported by Google, and you have a killing package for the small and medium ...
Posted in Internet, Telecom | 3 Comments »
