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Entries from April 2009

The Rumor of Verizon Offering the iPhone

April 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Deals, Gadgets, mobile phones, smartphones, Technology, Wireless

Today’s rumor mill is abuzz about Verizon possibly picking up Apple’s iPhone when AT&T’s exclusive deal runs next year. I must say I’m rather skeptical about this right now. I’m noticing most of the rumors credit the same source and all look the same. It just takes one rumor… So let’s think about this. The [...]

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AT&T Must Be Afraid of the Palm Pre

April 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Business, Gadgets, smartphones, Technology, Wireless

Ha! You’ve gotta love it. I just read this article on Engadget. Based on this leak of an AT&T internal document I’d say AT&T execs are fearing the release of the Palm Pre. They put out this little memo to their peeps pretty much saying the iPhone is vastly superior to the Pre. That’s fine…I [...]

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Think Small And Go Big

April 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Business, business ideas, Business Practices, Deals, emerging markets, entrepreneurs, Mergers/Acquisitions, Revenue Models, start-ups

Many of us dream of going big. It was just announced that Oracle is buying Sun for $7.4 billion. Gee, wouldn’t it be nice to sell off your company for a few BILLION dollars? We keep seeing news blurb after news blurb about companies recording record profits (Exxon Mobile anyone?) or being bought for billions [...]

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Palm Pre To Be Launched By May 17?

April 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Gadgets, mobile phones, smartphones, Technology, Wireless

The rumor mill concerning the Palm Pre is going nuts right now. A few days ago there were two differing rumor opinions as to which “early” date the Pre would be launched. The first was Tax Day (April 15) and the other was May 17. As Tax Day rapidly approaches this seems a bit far-fetched. [...]

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What’s Not To Love About Sprint?

April 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Deals, Gadgets, Hardware, mobile phones, smartphones, Technology, Wireless

Recently a friend posted a link to a video of one of the new Sprint commercials to our little newsgroup. This of course put me on a quick little rant of all things groovy about Sprint. This then led to someone commenting “…you went there. We won’t be able to get him to shut up [...]

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Barnes & Noble and Sprint to Develop eBook Offering

April 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Deals, Gadgets, Technology, Wireless

You know I couldn’t let an interesting story (just a rumor for now) concerning Sprint pass me by. Rumor has it that Barnes & Noble is working with Sprint Nextel and an unnamed device maker to offer eBook services similar to the Amazon Kindle. Hm…interesting. Barnes & Noble tried this a few years back working [...]

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Cox Communications To Launch Their Own Cellular Network

April 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Deals, mobile phones, Technology, Wireless

Things are about to get a bit busier in the cellular battlefield. Cox Communications is going to be launching their own cellular network soon. To those in the wireless industry it’s been known that Cox planned on doing so. Cox (which is the third largest cable company in the U.S.) originally planned to work with [...]

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Will Sprint and Palm Help or Hurt Each Other?

April 6th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Business, Business Practices, market share, mobile phones, smartphones, Technology

I’m sure by now you’ve all seen my fascination with Sprint Nextel and Palm. I think Sprint has a great network (nice and speedy…nice!) and Palm is an interesting case as they’ve gone from market innovator to laggard and now possibly leader (or at least competitor) again with the Pre. Examined separately, each company has [...]

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