In just seventeen months as T-Mobile CEO, John Legere has seen his “Uncarrier” strategy add 4.4 million subscribers. Uncarrier is an awkward name for a carrier who does not behave like one. So if you’re on T-Mobile, you won’t have a contract, you’ll have cheaper bills because there are no more built-in phone subsidies, upgrades are […]
And everything is all too fast / Just add water, nothing’s built to last That was certainly the case when my sixteen month old Nook Simple Touch e-reader starting acting the twat last week. Not overly-used and rarely leaving my bedside, I was left with an unresponsive screen once it was disconnected from the mains. I […]
Phase Atrix About 15 months ago I dumped my (small, well-formed but anemic) Blackberry Bold 9700 for the sexy, dual-core world of Android – namely the Motorola Atrix. The Atrix was the most powerful smartphone at the time – two big fat cores (which means it goes fast), lots of RAM, a slick four inch […]
I thought mobile phone companies in Ireland were bad until I came over to the US. My experience so far has been with AT&T and, in spite of the best intentions of the eager foot soldiers in the stores, the company itself leaves a lot to be desired. Right now they are in the news […]
I stuck an ad up on Gumtree offering a laptop I’m not using all that much and within a few hours I had a response. Easy money! Daniel Lewis (danielewiss@yahoo.com) wrote me and said: “Thinking about what to have for a special gift to my colleage till i found your item, would Like to know if […]
MySpace exists for one reason – to make money. That’s why Newscorp purchased it for $580m in 2005. Analysts in Wall Street say that the market value of the site could be $15bn by 2009. Although “Tom” recently reported that the site is the most visited in the world, Alexa recently reported that it is […]
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