Sep 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
It looks as Sony and DirecTV are coming together to offer the NFL Sunday ticket package to all PS3 owners. From what I have read on this if you have an existing subscription to Sunday ticket the app is a free download to stream all of the out of market games in full 1080p HD. The people without DirecTV finally have a way get Sunday Ticket! But it?s going to cost you. The subscription to the Sunday Ticket is typically around $199.95 for DirecTV subscribers, well to watch it directly through your PS3 with no DirecTV subscription it is going to cost you $299.95. On top of this you have to dish out, (no pun intended) the full payment up front, they will not be accepting installment payments. So if you have that type of money ready to go come Sept. 4th you can download this app on your PS3 and watch some FOOTBALL!
Sep 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
The new Microsoft phone OS is going to include a Kid?s Corner option which will prove a unique parental control feature to its set of phones. Kid?s Corner, formally known as Kid?s Zone is a separate start screen environment that is designed for children to access apps, videos, games, and music that is shared by a parent. Once the start screen has been activated the kids have full access to any games, music, videos and apps that are enabled by the parent. This nice new parental control feature will be introduced into the Windows phones coming later this year.
Aug 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
On top of one or more new Kindle Fires, there is an expectation of refreshed E Ink models in Amazon’s e-reader line at the company’s Los Angeles event next week as well. One of those is reported to be a refreshed Kindle Touch ? the button below the display is gone, and the bezel has changed from light to very dark gray. The overall shape of the product and the location of the USB port and power switch appear to be pretty much unchanged. It looks like Amazon will be pushing the unit with “higher contrast, high resolution, integrated lighting, and eight weeks of battery life,” even when using the light. The retail name for this Kondle is unclear ? Amazon could simply call it the Kindle Touch again, but “Paperwhite” might factor in as well.
Speaking of Paperwhite, this seems to be a reference to the unit’s improved display over the so-called Pearl E Ink that Amazon has been using since the third-generation Kindle. Many users, though, are likely to be more excited about the backlight ? this particular product is almost certainly designed to be the answer to Barnes & Noble’s Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight introduced earlier this year. Are you excited about the new kindles?
Aug 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
When a company buys another company there can always be issued and contoversy about how the purchase was handled or if it is even fair for a company to buy another company in a certain market could be bring the marketshare to a monopolistic level. Well there were plenty of concerns on the purchase of spectrum from Verizon. With Verizon’s acquisition of a large swath of AWS spectrum from a consortium of cable companies operating as SpectrumCo that includes Comcast and Time Warner. As with the DoJ, the FCC’s approval specifies “a number of binding commitments and conditions” including a spectrum swap of certain licenses between Verizon and Leap (better known in the market as Cricket) and a transfer of certain AWS holdings to T-Mobile upon completion of the purchase. In fact, the Commission says in its final report that the approval was based largely on “unprecedented divestiture of spectrum to a competitor, T-Mobile.” So with all of this information do you feel Verizon got away with something? Or did the FCC do the right thing by letting this go through? Tell me what you think.
Aug 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
One of the biggest issues with the Android Facebook is that it is not that good versus the iphone version. So the employees, are increasingly getting nudged and even ordered to give up their iPhones for Android devices due to this poor Android version. It seems Facebook management realizes its Android app is subpar?and believes that the only way employees will take fixing it seriously is if they have to deal with its issues day in, day out.
This is a practice called “dogfooding,” from the phrase “eating your own dog food,” which is pretty common at tech companies. That seems like a great way for Facebook to make a better app for android and I look forward to some major improvements in the near future.
Aug 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Verizon has blacked out Sept 21-30th for vacations. That can only mean one thing…. the iphone 5! Now we are all under the impression that the iphone will be announced at an Apple presentation on September 12th. So based on the performance of last years 4s launch we could be looking at a September 12th preorder date on top of the announcement. Which falls on a Wednesday and then on Friday Sept. 21ST we will be able to get the iphone 5. This should be exciting news for all you iphone fans out there or people with plans coming up.
Aug 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
In this litigious society we see many law suits come very many different angles. One of the biggest law suits has to deal with Samsung and Apple. Apple has been suing Samsung on many patent issues and is looking for some major damages. It looks as if the two sides are willing to speak on the situation and try to find out if they can come to some agreement. It would seem that on Monday the CEO?s of Apple and Samsung did speak and their lawyers will be reporting to Judge Koh in Federal court to go over the outcomes of the discussion. Although it seems that both parties are seeking damages. Samsung is seeking around $399 million in royalties from Apple for infringing on its patents according to testimony from the court. Apple stated that Samsung owed it $2.5 billion to $2.75 billion in damages. So it will be interesting to see what the phone call entailed.
Aug 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
With the Surface tablet coming to be the next big tablet, the market research company IDC has stated that Microsoft is expected to produce a little over 3 million surface tablets. The plans are to have a few million in the calendar year of 2012 which would be a combination of x86 and ARM versions. IDC is also stating that it plans on making a cheaper version of the tablet running about $199 to go up against the Kindle Fire and Nook tablets already on the market. There is also a speculation of a possible subscription that would also get you a surface tablet. So it seems you can buy it out right or get it on a subscription just like what Microsoft was doing with the Xbox 360. So this would not be uncommon for Microsoft to do such a thing. So based on the market research company if Microsoft decides to go this way I would expect that they could actually sell a lot of these tablets especially if they do a subscription plan.
Aug 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
Groupon has been having a tough few months and well the issues continue with a poor earnings report for the second quarter. The stock hit a low of $5.95 a share after Groupon announced $568.3 million in revenue, when Wall Street expected $573.13 million. The company blamed European performance for much of this quarter?s troubles but had trouble convincing investors that it otherwise had a ?strong quarter.? Groupon is looking to rebound from this but there are no new strategies that have been announced to combat such a loss. They may have to change their model a bit to open the groupons up to other businesses. Like computer repair for example. We have tried to do something with Groupon and even Living Social. One of the biggest competitors for Groupon. Granted our service is the direct type of market they go after but keys be honest if you are trying to grow revenue streams you have to at least be open to something like using different businesses for groupons.
Aug 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
The iMore site is reporting that the iphone 5 is very very close. So much so we could finally see this long awaited phone on the 12th of September and also be able to preorder the phone and the release could be as soon as the 21st. Now this is just the US launch and the actual international launch should be coming in early October. So it will be nice to see this phone finally and it looks like this release is following suit with what happened with the iphone 4S. I look forward to this event on the 12th. How about you?
