Don’t forget – where your cloud apps are hosted helps determine their carbon footprint
Back in July of this year (2011), the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), in conjunction with Verdantix, released a report titled Cloud Computing – The IT Solution for the 21st Century [PDF warning] which erroneously claims Cloud Computing is Green. Shortly after it was released, I wrote a long post outlining exactly where the report was [...]
Verizons repeated miscues with the iPhone
Its unlimited iPhone data plan was a differentiator from AT&T, but it could not resist moving to tiered plans. Why? Ostensibly because smartphone users are “data hogs”. Well, here is a reality check from Consumer Reports “…the median Verizon smart phone customer gets the worst deal. He pays top dollar, $30 for 2GB, and at [...]
The incredibly fragmenting telecom market
Ok, so the title may sound strange as we brace for another round of telecom consolidation via ATT-T-Mobile. But as I recently reviewed family and business telecom expenses for tax filings, I was impressed that AT&T and Verizon are on pace to be less than 20% of our telecom spend after being the dominant vendors [...]
Friday Rant: T-Mobile/AT&T — Procurement Should Voice Anticompetitive Behavior Concerns Immediately
By now, you’re probably aware of the proposed wireless merger of T-Mobile and AT&T (AT&T is set to acquire T-Mobile for $39 billion). No question, there are winners in mega mergers such as this. Like the investment bankers who are…
The Itch is Back
The good news is I received my Gingerbread update on my Nexus One. It arrived on Wednesday morning – the day of the iPad 2 announcement (imagine that, what a coincidence). Gingerbread is very nice – it’s the first time that I can truly say that Android works as seamlessly as iOS – there aren’t any new [...]
The apple didn’t fall far from the tree
In this case it was the Apple IPad 2. Yesterday’s refresh of the iconic, category making iPad looked more like a bug fix release than a new iteration. Sure it’s lighter, supports two cellular networks and WiFi and it has the AppStore behind it but it only leaves me saying, “So?” Here’s a news flash [...]
The Honeymoon Ends in Despair: The Sad Sad Case of Verizon Wireless
For years – since the first one was released – I had an iPhone. I had the iPhone, then the 3G, the 3GS and the 4. For me to continue to acquire that fashion statement, I had to suck it up and go back to AT&T, a carrier that I hated for eons – because [...]
Burning Questions: Do telcos understand variable cost economics?
Somewhere from my fuzzy recollection of economics classes, I seem to remember that as products evolved in their lifecycles, you moved from “charge what market will bear” to “variable cost pricing “ – i.e. make sure price covers your variable costs and there is some left over to cover residual fixed costs. If anything, I [...]
Wait, How Many Bars Does Your iPhone Have In Your Left Hand…
The iPhone antenna drama has just reached the stage of sublime comedy. Apparently, they’re now admitting their algorithm for calculating how many bars to show has been wrong since the beginning. They’ll be revising the software so that you see fewer bars most of the time. I have a bunch of friends with non-iPhones who hate [...]
AT&T iPad data breach hits home
Today, thanks to flaws in AT&T’s service, I’m at risk for identity theft along with 114,000 other iPad owners.
