Monthly Archives: April 2008

Why should AT&T sell iPhone at $199

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

TechCrunch reports a rumor that AT&T will sell 3G iPhones with 8GB at $199 in US. That would mean a $200 discount from expected $399 price. AT&T must be doing some numbers and verifying that ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) … Continue reading →

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Mobile advertisement or mobile spam?

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Advertisement can be an important source of revenue to Mobile telcos. And 2008 can be the year where it takes off at last. Still some of the mobile ads practices risk to be perceived as spam, specially SMS ads, where … Continue reading →

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Internet TV or IPTV? Who will win the battle?

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

While Internet TV enjoys the hype, the reality is that Telco’s IPTV is growing steady, while Apple and Amazon keep mum on their movie download service numbers. Every week we have news of players entering Internet TV or existing players … Continue reading →

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Vista sucks. Ubuntu or Mac OS X?

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Just google “Vista sucks” and you get 2.5 million results. It is now unanimous: Vista is slow, unstable and annoying. Apart from my Commodore 64 and the OS/2 Warp of my days in IBM I have always used Windows: 3.11, … Continue reading →

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Mac gains ground on consumers

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Apple has presented results for the past quarter. Apple shipped 2.3 million Mac computers in the quarter, 51 percent year-on-year growth, with a revenue increase of 54 percent. iPod sales were flat compared to last year with 10.6 million units … Continue reading →

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Nokia Comes With Music

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Nokia keeps its race with Apple to reach agreements with the record labels, in order to bundle content with the sale of devices. NY Times, Nokia signs Sony BMG for Free Music Offering, reports that Nokia will offer 12-month access … Continue reading →

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Behind the scenes of Obama Girl

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

The videos of BarelyPolitical.com are becoming more and more funny, and more and more seen. One dutch TV channel interviewed these guys As Ben Relles describes, this would not have been possible in 2004, even if Internet was already extremely … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Apocalypse 2018

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

April 2018. DIGooGle makes popular a GigaCrunch post: Microsoft Apocalypse Vista was the beginning of the end. A few years after its launch, the debacle was inevitable. First the SMEs and SOHO abandoned Microsoft when it stopped Windows XP support. By … Continue reading →

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Mobile Music keep growing in Japan

Posted on April 20, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Thanks to KDDI Lismo music service, 90% of the digital music sales in Japan comes from mobile, according to Wireless Watch Japan. The Record Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) has reported 2007 figures, with total sales increasing for third year … Continue reading →

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Why Google should buy Skype

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Add GMail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Salesforce.com and Skype in a package. Is there a better value proposition for SMEs and SOHOs for their IT and Communications infrastructure? Add a Linux distro for the business desktop, supported by Google, and … Continue reading →

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