Written on January 28th, 2010 by adminno shouts
Apple Inc.’s announcement Wednesday that its upcoming iPad tablet computer will connect to the Internet through AT&T Inc.’s 3G wireless network was a big win for the Dallas-based telecommunications company.
In fact, many people had expected Wednesday to be something of a bloodletting for AT&T.
When Apple made AT&T the exclusive U.S. carrier of the iPhone three years ago, it was a huge boon for the phone company.
Its wireless division has seen its sales soar over that time, hitting $13.7 billion in third-quarter 2009, up from $10.9 billion in the third quarter of 2007. AT&T releases fourth-quarter 2009 results today.
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Written on December 25th, 2009 by adminno shouts
Ballmer’s 10th anniversary as CEO of Microsoft arrives in January, but it’s hard to imagine he’ll be celebrating. Microsoft stock has dropped by nearly 50 percent on his watch, lagging not just other tech companies but even the Dow Jones industrial average. Distracted by the Windows Vista fiasco, Ballmer has missed every big new tech market of the past decade.
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Written on December 23rd, 2009 by adminno shouts
Blackberry
A reported national Blackberry outage today December 22 is heating up Twitter. BBM and the Blackberry national outage today is trending on twitter with recent tweets including the following within the last 30 minutes (6:00 PM PST):
Blackberry outage is on a wide scale, and the only trending topic on Twitter is BBM … blackberry messenger much?
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