
New From AT&T: A Fee For No Fees
When touch-tone dialing was new, the Bell System charged a small fee for the service. It was actually cheaper to provide touch-tone (the registers that hear dialing were freed-up much quicker). The Bell system figured out that customers liked the faster dialing, and were willing to pay a premium to get it. Extra fees are […]

How to Sync your MyTouch 4G with your Outlook Contacts
I recently bought a MyTouch 4G Slide to use as my primary phone. Since I’m a T-Mobile customer, I wanted to lock in a new plan and phone before AT&T can do something to screw it up. And since I’m a physical keyboard enthusiast (I hate losing half the screen to the virtual keyboard–a big […]

Facebook and T-Mobile Launch Bobsled. With Huge Privacy Glitch. Or is it By Design? Skype, Google Voice and Telcos Beware, Anyway…
Out of left field, T-Mobile and Facebook launched Bobsled, a VOIP service that allows voice calls to anyone on your Facebook list for free. At this moment the entire blogging world is busy writing about it, so I skip the basics… and just run to some funny experience while testing it. First, here’s how you […]

Samsung Vibrant (Galaxy S) Android Superphone Free?
Priced as low as FREE. I like free. Too bad T-Mobile will fix it before the July 21st release date

iPhone? Android? It’s All Irrelevant when you Can’t Get a Signal
Will iPhone users move to Verizon? – goes the speculation, based on a study published @ Fortune showing AT&T drop calls 3 times as frequently as Verizon. From my vantage point even dropped calls would be a luxury – meaning you can get a strong enough signal to place calls in the first place. Apparently […]
Telecoms unite against Apple
Apple faces the combined ire of 24 of the worlds telecom companies who want to start their own application store so that people that download applications to their phones and make more money off the applications that they are currently trying to support. Apple should buy T-Mobile or some other telecom, much like Google is […]

Time for Device Independent Data Plans
The Apple iPad event is still on, and the Internet is crumbling… Twitter barely crawls, CoveritLive isn’t exactly live, the major sites providing blog coverage are barely accessible… this is iKill – the day Apple Killed The Net. 🙁 But I want to talk about something more important: It’s a screenshot from Engadget’s coverage. Yes, […]

Corporate Disobedience – Operation Chokehold
Well this is interesting from a civil/corporate disobedience viewpoint, and an interesting way of looking at flash mobbing a place/product/service to see what the upward limits are. Fake Steve Jobs has proposed that IPhone users try to bring the AT&T 3G network to its knees and is asking everyone who has an IPhone to launch […]

Microsoft Danger Sidekick Data Loss Sabotage
Words most CIO’s do not ever want to see the same sentence; Microsoft Danger Sidekick Data Loss Sabotage highlights some interesting aspects of companies, data loss, and the willingness of speculation as to the actual reason why something happened. In this case the ongoing issues with the Danger Data Center and how it has impacted […]