AT&T is now Bloom Energy’s largest corporate customer and has doubled its previously announced fuel cell deal. The news is the latest win for Bloom Energy as it continues to brings in tech customers that want to power facilities and data centers. Read more »
AT&T is in the process of developing a home energy management service, which it plans to market to its wireless and wireline customers, according to AT&T Executive Director of Public Policy Jeffery Dygert. Read more »
Nokia Siemens Network and AT&T offered new data points today on how mobile broadband demand may swamp networks, but each also offered solutions outside of throttling and raising prices. With some technical savvy and Wi-Fi, maybe the mobile future isn’t so impossible. Read more »
It’s not all war and competition between tech giants Google and Apple. Sometimes the companies can come together, and the winner each time that happens is invariably the consumer. Today Google brings Google Goggles to the iPhone. Try saying that five times fast. Read more »
Adding mobile apps to ride-sharing options will open up the services to all those car poolers that just don’t want to plan in advance. On the other hand, maybe that’s not such a good thing. Read more »
Do you sometimes forget to follow up on important emails, or struggle with adding follow up reminders to your calendar? FollowUp is a useful, free and easy-to-use service that you can use to automatically send yourself a reminder to follow up. Read more »
Conditional formatting in Numbers lets you format the contents of a cell based on certain rules. So say you want to show all negative numbers as red and bold…conditional formatting lets us do that! We’ll cover how to apply conditional formatting to numbers, text and dates. Read more »
Okay, we admit it: We’re a little sad today that GigaOM didn’t win a Webby, but that shouldn’t stop anyone from checking out the long list of web video sites and ventures that did. In fact, web video was one of the big winners of this […] Read more »
A New York-based private equity firm’s plans to build out an open nationwide 4G wireless network may simply be a facade aimed at pumping up the value of the spectrum it indirectly owns, according to several satellite industry analysts. Will the network ever come to fruition? Read more »
Harbinger Capital Partner’s bold plan to build out an open 4G wireless network has more moving parts than the latest OK Go video, and would require a minimum of $6 billion to build. I’m skeptical that a competitive LTE network will come out of the plan. Read more »
Not everyone buying an iPad is purchasing the 3G model. Boingo Wireless today started offering a new pay-per-use Wi-Fi service for iPads, iPhones and iPod touches that’s even cheaper than AT&T’s Wi-Fi On the Spot offering. It uses iTunes for the transaction, making buying credits easy. Read more »
Huawei today demonstrated the next generation Long Term Evolution network technology in trials that reached speed of 1.2 Gbps. That’s faster than wireline services, delivered via cellular networks. But before you dump your FiOS wireline subscription, know that the LTE Advanced technology is years away. Read more »
AT&T today announced a service package containing video, data and voice, but this time consumers can choose wireless or a landline for voice. This upends the idea that the next big ISP offering would be a quadruple play that included voice, video, data and mobility. Read more »
A piece I wrote last week on the impact of iTunes web preview pages on App Store SEO brought up a little side conversation about how many people found it annoying that the links launch iTunes automatically. Sometimes you don’t even have any warning that the […] Read more »
UPDATED:On Saturday at SXSW, I got a look at Syabas’s upcoming set-top Popbox, which was unveiled at CES last January and integrates both web video content as well as just about anything else that might be on your computer (as seen in the video demo embedded […] Read more »
Aspera today launched a version of its rapid file transport software for the iPhone, which will allow iPhone users to squeeze their picture and video files through the crappiest connection that AT&T may have to offer. The software makes 3G file transfers three times faster. Read more »
T-Mobile may just manage to have one of the fastest mobile broadband networks for a short time, as it rolls out HSPA+ upgrades across its network this year. For the scoop on the network and which areas will get 21 Mbps down first keep reading. Read more »
Video is driving the projected increase in both mobile and wired broadband, but it’s not only the proliferation of video that’s the problem for mobile operators, it’s the relative ease that consumers now have accessing it. And that’s causing mobile operators to rethink their pricing plans. Read more »
The SlingPlayer application will come to the iPhone after Sling Media worked with AT&T to adjust the way the application uses bandwidth. The news marks a turning point in the mobile application world, whereby developers and carriers work closely to adapt their apps for mobile. Read more »
AT&T will likely keep its exclusive hold on the iPhone for the next 12-18 months, rather than ending it in mid-2010, writes an analyst. The added time in bed with Apple will allow Ma Bell time to fix its network, which could mean it keeps customers. Read more »
According to a report over the weekend on HotHardware.com, Apple may have more to announce at its special event this Wednesday than its mythical tablet. We have been led to believe by an inside source that AT&T will lose their iPhone exclusivity on the same day, […] Read more »
Cablevision hopes the Supreme Court will hear its lawsuit regarding the programs it must carry and decide to overturn aspects of those must-carry rules. Such a decision would set off a chain of events that could benefit cable companies and wireless carriers, while hurting local broadcasters. Read more »
YouTube might not be profitable yet, but the company is making strides in monetization, execs on Google’s fourth quarter earnings call said today. While not providing much detail for how much revenue the online video site is making or when it will break even, the execs […] Read more »
YouTube made a bit of noise yesterday with the introduction of a new video player that uses HTML5 standard, which (in theory) could enable browsers to render video without an installed plugin like Adobe’s Flash player. With the largest Flash video site in the universe now […] Read more »
Checking out a new comparison chart on wireless pricing, I realized that we have a two-tiered level of competition when it comes to mobile plans (three if we count prepaid), and that voice has been utterly commoditized, which means data plans are going to stay pricey. Read more »
Verizon Wireless will reportedly require a data plan with the purchase of some new feature phones. The move could be a sign of how the carrier plans to charge for usage on its upcoming LTE network. Read more »
The world has a lot to teach us about broadband competition, which is why I checked in on the latest customer for Cisco’s data crunching edge router to discover how Swisscom is taking steps to lower its own deployment costs and get fiber to the home. Read more »
Mark it up to the holidays, maybe, but online video viewing declined last month, with the number of online video views falling about 4 percent from November to December and viewership declining at four of the top five video properties, according to new data from Nielsen […] Read more »
Google’s Nexus One phone is a heap of fun to play with, but so far in the U.S. the only 3G network you can access it on is that of T-Mobile. There are two issues at play: the network and the radios. Read more »
The ThinkPad brand has long been associated with top-notch business-class notebooks. The famous black notebooks have appeared in conference rooms the world over, and the ThinkPad brand has come to mean fine quality business notebooks. The folks at Lenovo look to bring the ThinkPad into the […] Read more »
