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November 01, 2007
Apple's $18/month ARPU share with AT&T is Mind-Blowing
We all now realize the power of the Apple brand, especially at the negotiating table, but I for one never thought that they could demand such a huge revenue share. By holding AT&T over the proverbial barrel, Apple has sucked the true money pit -- data revenue -- from the carrier's hands and left the carrier with the commodity, voice revenue. This negotiating precedent should have implications in Nokia's negotiations with Vodafone, Google's negotiations with Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, and all the rest, plus the other carrier - software combinations.
October 30, 2007
Google phone: What will it do to the Telecom Industry?
The Telecom Industry has been waiting to see what Google is going to do with it rumored phone system. This actually is very good news for the everyone except maybe Apple. The fear had been they would develop their own phone and take away more market share just as Apple has.
If the rumors are true the Google phone will not be a phone but a platform within phones made by others and open to all. So the question becomes who will use it and why is Google going for an open platform. It makes sense for Google, they are not in the hardware business but in the advertising business, the more people who see their searches and pages of information the more they can make from this service. So the smart thing to do is get the technology into as many phones as possible. By providing an open system they are moving in that direction. I see a lot of the handset makers jumping onto this bandwagon, it provides something new and different, something everyone but Apple needs right now, it could also help spur sales of new phones equipped with this technology. The same goes for the services providers, not only a new feature but also more data downloading time on the network. So overall a big plus for them. Now the question remains what about Apple? If this new system from Google requires a hardware change then they will have problems that everyone else will love. People will not be willing to spend to upgrade the new iPhone. Maybe this is what the industry has been hoping for.
June 26, 2007
iPhone Demo Video
Apple provides a Apple iPhone guide tour on the website to show the features of the new device.
Worth to see!
Cell hack geek stalks pretty blonde shocker
Cellphone-hack surveillance techniques, long the preserve of government operatives, may have gone mainstream as a family in the western USA reports unusually competent cellphone stalking.
The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington, carried reports last week of a harassment campaign bearing all the hallmarks of being orchestrated by frustrated teenage boys - except that it was technically sophisticated. An attractive 16-year-old girl and her family and friends have experienced eavesdropping via their mobile phones even when turned off, calls billed from their phones even when turned off, contact data lifted from phones remotely, ringtones replaced with threatening recordings, and so on.
This sort of thing is extremely unusual in normal life, and the News Tribune reports that local plods and cell-company reps have struggled to believe the beleaguered Kuykendall family and their fellow victims.
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January 10, 2007
Apple Keynote Video: iPhone
Its' all about the iPhone today. You can't get around it and rightly so. It's truly is a revolutionary new phone and makes all other news today seem so dull. If you weren't at MacWorld yesterday, you can catch Steve Jobs ' entire Keynote address online.
December 09, 2006
Apple smart phone project rests on Mac OS X tie-ins
For several years now, an elite squad of engineers at Apple Computer have been working diligently to perfect an intuitive smart phone concept that would both conform to the company's integrated model and oblige chief executive Steve Jobs.
As AppleInsider has been told, it's the latter of those two feats that has thus far presented the utmost of challenges, largely preserving the project and its many facets behind the fortified walls of the company's Cupertino, Calif. home base.
It's believed that the initiative, which is different and slightly more ambitious than the company's "iPhone" project, truly gained momentum about three years ago alongside the development of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Some of the device's original features, such as Bluetooth remote control of certain Mac OS X functions, were meant to coincide with those that would have subsequently appeared in the final version of the Tiger operating system.
But as the story goes, Apple took the latest iteration of its proprietary smart phone hardware and software in the early summer of 2005, slapped it together inside an enclosure reminiscent of a fourth-gen iPod, and hit the road.
The objective at the time was to showcase the device's software to potential wireless partners and then appoint contractors to assess network requirements and the feasibility of certain features. Per Jobs' request, the phone's software interface was to be a carbon copy of Front Row -- Apple's one-touch media experience application. "He wanted every feature no more than one click away," a source told AppleInsider.
People familiar with ensuing talks say the "real push" behind the device was its extensive integration with Mac OS X and the Macintosh platform. Apple is said to have demonstrated several features that called upon a still unreleased version of the company's .Mac internet services that would allow users to control certain Mac functions remotely. These included beaming contacts, tasks and calendar appointments to Address Book and iCal from remote locations. However, the Mac maker remained mum on whether it planned to release Windows compatible versions of those desktop applications.