6 posts and columns on data network

Voices

The iPhone, Net Neutrality and the FCC

in News on June 11, 2010 at 2:25 pm PT

AT&T’s Picturephone, shown at the 1964 World’s Fair, was a huge flop. Apple’s new iPhone 4, announced this week, has a front-facing camera for video chats. It might succeed, except that AT&T isn’t providing enough bandwidth capacity.

Unlike Google Voice, Vonage Now Available on iPhone

in News on October 5, 2009 at 8:00 am PT

Apple seems to have gotten over its aversion to apps duplicating core iPhone functions. This morning, Internet telephony company Vonage released an app that allows iPhone users to make calls over Wi-Fi and AT&T’s voice network.
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Analyst to Sprint: You'd Sell More Pres if They Cost 99 Cents

in News on August 26, 2009 at 8:45 am PT

A renewed advertising push for the Palm Pre and an increase in the number of applications available for it haven’t done much for the device’s sales. According to Pali Research analyst Walter Piecyk, weekly Pre sales are holding steady in the mid-20,000 range at which they stabilized a few weeks back. One way for Sprint to spur sales, says Piecyk: Cut the price of the Pre to $99, or even 99 cents
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Analyst to Sprint: You’d Sell More Pres if They Cost 99 Cents

in News on August 26, 2009 at 8:45 am PT

A renewed advertising push for the Palm Pre and an increase in the number of applications available for it haven’t done much for the device’s sales. According to Pali Research analyst Walter Piecyk, weekly Pre sales are holding steady in the mid-20,000 range at which they stabilized a few weeks back. One way for Sprint to spur sales, says Piecyk: Cut the price of the Pre to $99, or even 99 cents
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Palm Pre Customers Apparently as Constrained as Palm Pre Supply [Updated]

in News on July 24, 2009 at 10:40 am PT

Sprint best step up its marketing efforts for the Pre because according to Pali Research, demand for Palm’s new device is slowing, and quickly. During the week ending June 26, Pali estimates that Sprint sold 50,000-60,000 Pre handsets. In the weeks that followed, it sold “less than 40,000,” and then, “over 30,000”–again, according to Pali. Now the research outfit says sales have declined by another 5,000 units.
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BlackBerry’s Storm Presses Into the Touch-Phone Fray

in Personal Technology on November 19, 2008 at 6:32 pm PT

Walt reviews the hotly anticipated BlackBerry Storm, the first BlackBerry model without a physical keyboard. Typing and navigation require tapping on glass, just as users do on the iPhone. Verizon will be selling the Storm for $250 with a two-year contract, though a $50 mail-in rebate can bring the price down close to the $199 that Apple charges for the base model of the iPhone.
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