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Sprint Reports Losses Despite Improvements
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on November 6, 2009
Sometimes it seems like Sprint must be scratching their collective head in effort to figure out what gives with the domestic wireless market. The company reported a large third-quarter loss as subscribers continued to leave for rivals AT&T and Verizon despite an improved selection of phones a...
Verizon Releases $100 Android Handset
in The Gadgets Weblog, on November 6, 2009
In effort to boost publicity of the Android platform, Verizon Wireless plans to sell the HTC Droid Eris, a Google Android equipped wireless device, today for $100.
The Droid Eris is nearly identical to HTC's Hero smartphone, which Sprint is currently selling for $180. In fact the Droid E...
Sonos iPhone Music Player Ships
in The Gadgets Weblog, on November 4, 2009
Sonos has confirmed initial shipments of its much-anticipated ZonePlayer S5 all-in-one wireless music system that can be controlled by the iPhone or iPod touch.
The Sonos ZonePlayer S5 is a high-performance wireless music system with 5 speakers powered by 5 dedicated digital amplifiers. ...
Sony Hopes to Increase Market Share with Android Phone
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on November 4, 2009
Sony may rule the roost in several areas of consumer electronics but the smartphone industry hasn’t been one of them. To potentially remedy this reality, Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 (their first Google phone) will go on sale in 2010.
X10 will run Google's Android software and feature a larg...
Feature Packed Motorola Droid Hits Stores this Week
in The Gadgets Weblog, on November 2, 2009
Verizon’s highly-anticipated answer to the iPhone is set to go on sale this week for $200.
This new handset, called the Motorola Droid, will run Google's Android 2.0 operating system, offering a new mapping application that has voice-guided turn-by-turn directions, satellite imagery and h...
Flixster Expands Its Reach By A Factor of 8 Million
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on November 2, 2009
...d is installed on a whopping 1 in 5 iPhones in the U.S.
In addition to the 20 million monthly unique visitors Flixster.com attracts on its site, the “Movies” application can boast adding an additi...
Google Docs Batch Export
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-27
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UNESCO, TripAdvisor Want Your Opinion
in Hidden Travel Gems, on October 24, 2009
...gical and financial assistance that can expand UNESCO's efforts, and wants to engage its 25 million monthly visitors to act on behalf of World Heritage. Hopefully the partnership will be productive.
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Cisco Agrees: P2P Use Declining
in P2P File Sharing, on October 22, 2009
...o and other collaboration products are rising (those products consumed 4.3 percent of the average monthly traffic), I’m inclined to think that early adopters are now driving a lot of the traffic growt...
How to create a fluctuation-proof supply chain...
in Supplychainer, on October 20, 2009
... Manufacyrers' Monthly has featured a new article on the need for reshaping today's supply chains (Read the article here ).
The author of the article argues that, for historical reasons, man...
Deciding What You Can Afford in a House
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 13, 2009
...Affordability Index (that we talked about last time) assumes that with 20% down, you'll need 25% of monthly household income to cover your mortgage, real estate taxes, and insurance—the banks start ou...
Mortgages: 30-year or 15-year?
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 11, 2009
...ly lengthy blog post is based on the personal experience of one of GRS's staff writers. It looks at monthly payments and at total interest on a $160,000 home. Among other things, they do the math on t...
Seen that? - A Diabetic With Olympic Courage
in Daily Diabetic, on October 2, 2009
...nts are to test a trial treatment for diabetic nerve damage after promising studies on animals. The monthly injection works by stimulating the body to make a natural protein that prevents nerve damage...
Goodbye, Verizon Hub
in The VoIP Weblog, on September 30, 2009
...on Hub died from a terminal service plan and confused retail strategy involving an expensive $34.99 monthly fee and a perplexing requirement that owners also have a Verizon Wireless cell phone," ...
Verizon Intros Online Backup for Macs
in On Storage, on September 29, 2009
...hile Verizon Online Backup and Sharing (VOBS) offers between 5 Gbytes and 250 GB of storage for a monthly fee."
More here from MacNN ... more here from InformationWeek ... and the press ...
Luxury hotels the latest victims of the recession
in Sox First, on September 25, 2009
...oom and now the chickens are coming home to roost. This is serious and dangerous. As the Atlantic Monthly's Daniel Indiviglio points out, this could devastate the commercial mortgage-backed sec...
Carbon tax and dividend
in Sox First, on September 20, 2009
...he public, an equal amount to each adult, a half-share for children. This dividend can be deposited monthly in an individual's bank account. A carbon tax with a 100% dividend is non-regressive. On...
New Voicemail and Notification Options Coming to the iPhone?
in The Wireless Weblog, on September 8, 2009
... are said to include an automatic notification when a user is in danger of exceeding their limit of monthly minutes, as well as a new option to disable the voicemail greeting entirely. "The propo...
RIM Ponies Up For New Browser
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on August 26, 2009
In the war to becoming the world's top smartphone maker, every little bit helps to gain an edge. Keeping that in mind, Research in Motion (RIM) has acquired Torch Mobile, maker of the Iris browser for Windows Mobile, to improve its own BlackBerry Internet experience.
Released in 2008, the...
Dark side of trust
in Sox First, on August 26, 2009
...Constantly check them for suspicious, self-serving behavior. Want thieving employees? Give them all monthly lie detector tests." The reality is trust just happens. Subject it too much scrutiny a...
Nokia’s Mini-Laptop A Reality
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on August 24, 2009
It's common knowledge that the void between full computers and converged mobile devices is an ever-shrinking one. Leading cell phone manufacturer Nokia has made it official: Their first laptop computer is coming soon.
Calling it the Nokia Booklet 3G, this new unit will weigh just 2.76 pounds an...
No relief from foreclosure mess
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 24, 2009
...es became far too expensive during the recent housing boom. This means that mortgage loans, and the monthly payments that come with them, took up a greater percentage of homeowners' monthly income...
AT&T To Require Data Plans for Smartphones
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on August 21, 2009
...AT&T has decided that all new customers who plan to use a smartphone have to subscribe to a $30 monthly data plan starting September 6.
The company says the new mandate was implemented to increas...
More Ways for Students to Save Money
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on August 20, 2009
...nutes when you call from a Verizon phone to another Verizon phone. While you will have to pay the monthly charges, you will also be able to talk as long as you want - at no extra charge.
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Blockbuster to Bring Movies to Motorola
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on August 18, 2009
The times are a changing. Movie viewers are doing away with the concept of requiring a piece of media to enjoy a film. As a result, DVD renting is on the decline and rental chains like Blockbuster are feeling the squeeze. Facing competition from Netflix, Redbox to video download services such ...
Samsung's Jitterbug Simplifies the Cellular Experience
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on August 17, 2009
Not everyone feels like handsets need the abundance of features manufacturers have been including of late and one company feels like simplification is in order for certain overwhelmed customers.
Enter the Jitterbug J from Samsung, a cellular handset that begs the questions why pack cameras, G...
Is renting the new American Dream?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 15, 2009
...39;s nice not to have a huge mortgage payment due every month. Sure, you'll have to make those monthly rent payments, and they can be high, too. But you won't have to worry about maintenance. ...
Foreclosures dogging the middle class
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 14, 2009
...he owner of a small restaurant.
For about 13 years, this restaurant owner had diligently made his monthly mortgage payments. Then the economy went sour. People stopped eating out, and the restaurant...
Verizon 4G Coming Soon
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on August 14, 2009
When it comes to wireless networks, speed and reliability are constantly being improved upon. Verizon Wireless has completed initial testing of its 4G wireless service and says the commercial roll out is coming in 2010.
Making use of a new technology called Long Term Evolution (LTE), Verizon s...
Loan clinic the cure for mortgage ailments?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 13, 2009
...ssure on mortgage companies to restructure the loans of homeowners who are struggling to make their monthly payments. Many homeowners, though, have complained that they've struggled to receive any...
Microsoft & Nokia Come Together Over Office
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on August 12, 2009
The world's top software maker and top handset maker have reached an agreement. Microsoft confirms that it has reached a deal with Nokia to make a mobile version of its Office software that works on devices made by the manufacturer.
Microsoft said it will launch the latest version of its ...
Samsung's Ecofriendly Reclaim Coming to Sprint
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on August 10, 2009
While the Samsung Reclaim has been in the works for some time, it looks like Sprint will be the U.S. carrier of this, the world's first bio-friendly smartphone.
The Reclaim can proudly boast of the fact that it's made from 80 percent recyclable materials and is free of polyvinyl chlor...
Unemployment figures: don't celebrate yet
in Sox First, on August 9, 2009
... you are counted as "marginally attached" to the labor force and not part of the official monthly computation. In other words, the apparent decline in unemployment is a statistical aberrati...
911 Service To Accept Text Messages
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on August 7, 2009
Well it's often said trends of today become the norm of tomorrow and there's no further proof than An emergency call center in Waterloo, Iowa, became the first in the country to accept "911" emergency text messages and even reply back, too.
While the move may seem frivolous ...
3jam vs. Google Voice
in The VoIP Weblog, on August 7, 2009
...ed in, that should cut down on traffic too. But after that, it's several cents per text, plus a monthly fee for voice minutes... if 3jam can simplify its pricing, it could become an uninvited comp...
What to do when those mortgage payments get hard to make
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 6, 2009
...more.
You wouldn't be alone. A growing number of homeowners today are struggling to pay their monthly mortgage payments. It's hardly a surprise. The nation's unemployment rate is near 10...
T-Mobile Releases myTouch 3G
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on August 5, 2009
T-Mobile's hoping to improve its 4th-place ranking among US wireless carriers by releasing a high-tech 3G touch-phone running Google Android for a reasonable price. Hitting stores today, the myTouch 3G (the newest Google Android-powered smartphone with applications that learn and recommend ...
Cricket Announces More Features To Their Plans
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on August 3, 2009
...icket markets that cover approximately 72.3 million potential customers.
Cricket's popular $40 monthly plan, which currently includes unlimited voice, long distance, domestic and international te...
Want a good retirement? Pay off that mortgage loan first
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 3, 2009
...enter for Retirement Research, a growing number of homeowners are retiring while still paying their monthly mortgage bills. Is this a bad thing? Yes, according to this story on NJ.com .
According to...
LG's New "Split Screen" Chocolate Coming Soon
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 31, 2009
Well first we had portrait screens, then landscape mode, then phones with the ability to switch from one view to the other with the flick of a wrist. LG hopes taking the viewing trend to the next level will prove fruitful in developing their new Chocolate BL40, a widescreen handset with "...
Supply chain video: Managing supplier risk in the downturn (Part 6)
in Supplychainer, on July 31, 2009
... is necessary.
Comparing/monitoring the contracts with respect to the real performance on a monthly or bi-weekly basis is also another best practice mentioned by Dr. Hanfield. His main message...
Is the housing greed a thing of the past?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 31, 2009
.... Mortgage lenders loaned out money to customers who weren't financially able to handle a large monthly mortgage payment. Real estate appraisers overvalued too many homes. The government looked th...
HTC Bringing TouchPro2 to T-Mobile
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 29, 2009
T-Mobile and HTC are getting set to release the Touch Pro2; a touch screen smartphone with conference speakerphone technology.
One of the main draws of the TouchPro2 is that by flipping it over, it becomes a sophisticated speakerphone not unlike those found in corporate boardrooms.
The hand...
Putting the presidential squeeze on the mortgage firms
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 29, 2009
...ebruary of this year. Mortgage servicers are now given financial incentives to reduce mortgage loan monthly payments to more affordable levels.
It's unclear, though, if the program is doing much...
Working From Home? Consider This...
in BootStrapMe, on July 29, 2009
...sition, through the acquisition of clients and forward until you are at least able to meet all your monthly monetary requirements. Don't underestimate the time that this may take, or take anything...
RIM Returning to the Smartphone Segment
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 27, 2009
With all the talk of iPhones and Palm's Pre, RIM has been holding steady with their latest smartphone entry. It has since been confirmed that T-Mobile will launch the BlackBerry Curve 8520, RIM's newest smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard, optical trackpad and dedicated media keys (on Au...
Kazaa Is Back... Sort Of...
in P2P File Sharing, on July 27, 2009
Kazaa has announced its official return to service, three years after its shutdown.
"However, like Pirate Bay and Napster, the service is in name only, with users being forced to pay for their music instead of trading tracks illegally... the new Kazaa will at first be available only i...
Palm’s Going After iTunes Once Again
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 24, 2009
I don't think I have to go into great detail in saying that a lot of Apple's success with the iPhone stems from the popularity of their iTunes music service.
Naturally Apple is very serious about protecting this gold mind and didn't take too kindly to Palm when they developed a so...
Making mortgages easier to understand
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 24, 2009
...rest rates on these risky loan products suddenly increased, and borrowers could no longer pay their monthly mortgage bills.
The government wants to make sure this doesn't happen again. Of course,...
Vertu To Release All Carbon Fiber Handset
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 22, 2009
Handsets come in many shapes and sizes but these days consumers have more raw materials to chose from than ever before. Everything from plastic to titanium construction occupies store shelves and now Luxury mobile phone brand Vertu plans to release a handset crafted entirely of carbon fiber.
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Is buying nearly as affordable as renting? Don't believe the hype
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 22, 2009
...ncial sense than did renting. Inevitably, they'd say that with low mortgage interest rates, the monthly payment for a house wasn't much higher than a typical monthly rent check.
It was diffic...
Nokia Targets Photogs With Their Next Phone
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 20, 2009
Despite posting huge losses for the past quarter, Nokia's got its sights set on the next big thing. That next big thing in this case happens to be the N86 8MP, a smartphone with an 8.0-megapixel auto-focus camera and Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens.
Nokia says the N86 8MP is a true repla...
Some mortgage villains faring quite well
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 20, 2009
...housing foreclosures taking place across the nation. And why are so many people unable to pay their monthly mortgage loans? It's because so many mortgage loan officers — paid, by the way, to...
California's dope rush
in Sox First, on July 19, 2009
...zing the drug? Quite apart from questions of whether marijuana is harmful. Writing in the Atlantic Monthly , Daniel Indiviglio says we need to look at the potential costs. "What about productivi...
Evan Rapoport on Capital Introduction - Excerpt
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 18, 2009
... you will use to grow your fund you should consider your:
* Hedge Fund Track Record
* Hedge Fund Monthly Trading Volume
* Current Firm/Fund Assets Under Management
* Hedge Fund Age
* Hedge Fund ...
Samsung's New Touch Screen Comes to T-Mobile
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 17, 2009
T-Mobile, the fourth-largest U.S. carrier is working to take a piece of the market being dominated by phones like the Apple iPhone. From Samsung, the new model is being called the Highlight; a touch screen smartphone running Samsung's own TouchWiz technology.
Samsung says the Highlight is...
RIM Hopes to Make Blackberry More Social
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 15, 2009
Social networking sites are all the rage these days- Myspace, Facebook, Twitter- if it let's people connect, there will be people who want to be connected.
Smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) has launched their own new social network service available through its BlackBerry App Worl...
Sprint Says All Smartphones Will Have Wi-Fi
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 12, 2009
In a surprising move, Sprint has said that it is requiring all of the smartphones it carries to come equipped with Wi-Fi capabilities.
This will include an updated version of the much-anticipated Blackberry Tour, which was released for the Sprint network on Sunday.
In effort to keep up with ...
Create Zoho Creator Web Apps from Microsoft Access Database
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-11
...• New York Attorney General Sues Tagged.com
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Amazon.com Launche Wireless Superstore
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 10, 2009
If you were to look at the cellular phone market as a graph, there would be some periods of rabid growth, followed by periods of leveling off but the overall pattern would be continued expansion.
Sensing the opportunity such a business model presents, Amazon.com, one of the world's largest...
Why it matters if your neighbor's struggling to pay the mortgage
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 9, 2009
...l government to bail out your neighbors who took out bad mortgage loans and now can't pay their monthly bills on time.
Most of them were greedy, you might say. They took out odd mortgage loans w...
Peek Wants Linux
in HackITLinux, on July 9, 2009
...k would offer a model with more data capabilities but that would certainly require a more expensive monthly free. Or maybe the company is looking to add an MS Office-type suite to the Peek. Hopefully ...
T-Mobile To Begin Pre-Selling New Android Phone
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 8, 2009
In effort to reaise up some well needed capital, struggling wireless carrier T-Mobile today began pre-selling the myTouch 3G, its second Google-powered smartphone.
T-Mobile, which currently sits in fourth-place in terms of sheer size among US carriers, is feeling the pressure amid a busy summ...
Los Angeles leads nation in mortgage fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 8, 2009
...she won't really be able to help you reduce your mortgage payments.
If you need to reduce your monthly mortgage payments, call your mortgage lender directly. That's the safest, and surest, wa...
Animoto Releases Updated iPhone App
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 6, 2009
Animoto has released an update to their popular music video creation app for the iPhone and iPod touch, Videos 2.0 .
The Animoto Videos application allows users to easily create and view professional-quality music videos on the go. With nearly 500,000 videos created through the application ...
Taking out a mortgage loan without going mad
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 6, 2009
...hem like baseball scores. And everyone knows: The lower your mortgage interest rate, the lower your monthly mortgage payment.
The problem comes when home buyers try to time their buying decisions to ...
Satellite Hopes To Make Deadzones a Thing of the Past
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 3, 2009
The world's largest commercial satellite has been launched into earth orbit with the goal of providing mobile phone service to "dead zones" all across North America.
Owned by Reston, Va.-based TerreStar, the satellite is designed to pick up and relay signals from mobile phones.
...
It's getting tougher to get a mortgage-broker license
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 2, 2009
...gage brokers passed out mortgage money to borrowers who didn't have the financial means to make monthly mortgage payments. These same sleazy brokers steered homeowners into risky loans, mortgage p...
Verizon and Sprint to Launch Blackberry World Phone
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 1, 2009
You could say that with the help of Verizon, RIM's latest Blackberry is going on world tour. In fact, that's exactly what's going on in the latest word that Verizon Wireless will launch the BlackBerry Tour on July 12 for $200 with a new two-year contract.
The Tour is loaded with m...
