Apple stock hit an all time high, over $200 this week. But that's just the financial story. What is really impressive is how well Apple is faring in purchase popularity in every category they compete it. In phones. In the desktop and laptop categories, when you consider how much more expensive their products are...
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Apple’s Future Is Very Secure
Are You Buying More Than You Need?
Gizmodo has a very interesting piece today about consumer Internet connectivity in the USA from the major providers. In the post they point out how the broadband providers are overselling higher priced services to consumer by exaggerating what kind of pipe someone needs to download, connect or use services. First off, we're beginning to...
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RIM Has A Problem
Last night around 7 PM or so I caught a tweet that made me check my Blackberry. Yes indeed, there must be an outage. Then another tweet came in. Then another, and another. All the while RIM was silent. This is not the first time that Research In Motion was off the air and...
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Jingle Bells Ringing for Jajah: How they created $200M of perceived value.
I can clearly remember the first time I tried what Jajah then called its ‘web telephony’ service, back in 2007. Its claim: to take the confusion and early adopter status out of VoIP, by letting people use their computers to place a call, yet still ...
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Congressman Sets Realistic Broadband Speed Goals
Congressman Rick Boucher of Virginia is my kind of elected official. He wants us all to have 50 megs down and 20 megs up of broadband. And as the post on DSL Reports mentions, with Docsis 3.0 coming to a cable box near you rather soon, those speeds are more than attainable. In my...
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