8 posts and columns on activation

So That's 100,000 Copies of Twitter and 900,000 Copies of Angry Birds?

in News on January 7, 2011 at 6:55 am PT

Apple’s Mac App Store is off to an impressive start. It racked up one million downloads in its first 24 hours of business (the top selling app: Angry Birds).That’s a strong showing by any measure–particularly for a brand-new service with limited offerings that relies on an OS update for activation. That said, it’s not nearly as strong as the one put on by the iTunes App Store, its best reference point. That service racked up 10 million downloads its first weekend.

Report Says iPhone Kicking Droid’s Posterior

in Mobile on December 13, 2010 at 1:31 pm PT

A new study suggests that iPhone sales have spiked in the past few months, while Verizon has hit a wall with its Android-led counterattack. But with Verizon apparently poised to get the iPhone, the real threat here could be to the makers of Android phones.

Windows Phone 7 Prices Quietly Dropping

in Mobile on December 9, 2010 at 7:45 am PT

Although the official prices of the initial Windows Phone 7 devices remain the same, various promotions are heavily discounting the month-old models, with Amazon offering three AT&T models for just a penny.

Verizon Now Sells Subsidized Netbook With Cell Service

in Personal Technology on May 13, 2009 at 6:12 pm PT

Verizon’s H-P Mini netbook is an adequate light-duty computer for a low price, but the charge for Internet service is high if used as a main online connection.
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Cleaning Out Windows XP

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on February 4, 2009 at 5:42 pm PT

Walt answers questions about cleaning up a sluggish install of Windows XP, the new keyboards on the unibody MacBook Pros and alternatives to the Windows Mail application in the upcoming Windows 7 operating system.

Yahoo's Moment of Truth

in News on April 22, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Yahoo’s Moment of Truth

in News on April 22, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

iPhone. It Just Works … Eventually

in News on July 2, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Typically, cellphone activation is a tiresome process–an hour-long misery of paperwork, credit checks and SIM-card queries peppered with pitches for insurance and accessories you neither want nor need. So when Apple said iPhone activation would be handled through iTunes, without the intervention of an AT&T store Tri-Lam, it was viewed as another design triumph–a radical [...]