Dear Sprint: I Am This Close To Dropping You
I’ve been with Sprint for eight years and it’s only been in the past two that I’ve really thought about phones and data plans. Y’know, the things you should really be paying attention to. My first phone plan was $35 a month with a candy bar phone I kept in the center console of my car most of the time. When I got my Palm Pre in 2009, I got into their exclusive Premier plan which allowed me to get a new phone annually at new retail rates. So after a year, I got my Samsung Epic. Then they cleaved the Premier service into two tiers and I fell into the smaller bucket. And now there is no Premier plan. So now I have to pay full retail price plus activation fee to get the shiny new phone of my dreams. Honestly, I’d rather pay the termination fee and switch to another carrier. And I’d save money, and I’d have…
Number Of iPhone 4S Users Still Using Siri After A Week: None
Siri is going to revolutionize how we use phones. Siri is the first real implementation of voice commands ever. Siri is going to be worth upgrading to an iPhone 4S. You know what no one mentions about Siri? That it’s a cool parlor trick at best, something to show your friends. “Hey Siri, where can I dump a dead body?” “Hey Siri, close the pod bay doors!” Then wait for the cute responses! I’m not giving it enough credit though, Siri is a cool trick, but iPhone users are going to discover something about voice commands that Android users have secretly known for years…
iOS 5 Tips, Tricks and Things You May Miss
When I first got iOS 5 I kinda knew what was new and what I could do but there were certain things that didn’t make sense to me and took forever to figure out. Now that I have figured everything out, because I’m a genius and no not the Apple store kind, I thought I would share it with you. I don’t have an iPhone 4S because I’m still weighing my options so these tips will not cover Siri. Siri is like the only pro I have to upgrade from my 4. Read the rest of this article…
Is 4chan In Decline?
The internet started as bulletin boards. You dialed into them on an individual basis to chat with others, one post at a time, your identity backed only by a handle. Those bulletin boards later became the dial-up ISPs we knew as Compuserve and AOL. Then we didn’t need them anymore. We had raw access to the internet, we didn’t need those walled gardens. But for many communities – from web forums to IRC chats – the need for anonymity is still strong. That last bastion of anonymous hope? 4chan. But in an era where presenting yourself exactly as you are, with your identity exposed for all to see, makes a lot of economic and social sense, where does 4chan fit in the grand scheme of things?
What Windows Phone Needs To Survive
Dear Microsoft,
You’re screwing this whole thing up. No, I take it back, not everything. Windows Phone as an OS, now with Mango, is now competent and as other major outlets have said, remarkably similar in capability or better than Android or iOS. So how can Apple unveil one phone this month and do almost as much business as your entire lineup this quarter before it even releases? You guys are absolutely failing in your obligation to provide this industry with a new standard. You’re putting billions behind it because you realize this is your only stable attempt to bridge the ecosystem between Windows and the post-PC universe, yet you have little to show for it. They’ve even been out for a year and I still don’t have one. Look, I don’t run your business, but I did try to save Best Buy, so let me try to bail you out, too.
Facebook-Killer Diaspora Is Asking For More Cash, Do We Even Care Anymore?
Diaspora – n. – A group ejected from its homeland.
And so it was a year and a half ago, during the last big Facebook privacy kerfuffle, that a quartet of NYU students announced to the world their intention to build an open-source social network. By being decentralized with an altruistic agenda, they wanted to win over the people that Facebook alienated through foggy permissions to their content. With Diapsora, you would be free of corporate influence and data mining, allowing you to share your information at your own discretion. They asked for $10k through crowdfunding site Kickstarter and after a month, received twenty times that amount. So now you’re thinking “who in the world is Diaspora and why have I never heard of them before?” Well, that’s perhaps a key point because Diaspora is now asking for even more money.
Guess What? Kik is on BlackBerry Again!
You may of never heard of Kik messenger and that is because you have no friends. Well okay, maybe you do have friends but you guys just aren’t as cool as everyone else or you would be using Kik messenger. We say everyone else because even though we use Kik nothing you do will make you cooler than us. Read the rest of this article…
Reed Hastings, Netflix, Fail at Failing – Decide To Trash Qwikster. What Do WE Think?
Yep…That’s right.
Just a couple of weeks after Qwikster was announced, Netflix has pulled the plug on its DVD service-to-be.
Tesla Shows Me My Next Car, Won’t Take My Money
Tesla, bleeding edge electric car manufacturer, recently had a media day at their Fremont, California factory to show off the latest version of their Model S sedan. Engadget got to ride along and show off the car’s massive center console, all of which has whet my appetite for a nearly silent and incredibly modern vehicle that will sell for less than $100k when fully decked out. What, you don’t have a hundred large lying around for a new state-of-the-art ride? Well, turns out, neither do I…
Steve Jobs Heads to the iCloud in the Sky
It’s a sad day today as we all learned that Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple and CEO as of a month ago has died. Read the rest of this article…
