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16 Jan 2010

AT&T today announced new unlimited plans across all devices – including its industry-leading lineup of smartphones – to provide more value and choice for customers who want to talk, text and surf on the nation’s fastest 3G network.

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Tags: 3G, Apple iPhone, at&t, Communication, competition, iPhone, plans, price, pricepoints, prices, reduction, smartphones, telecom, unlimited data plan, unlimited pricing, unlimited voice plan, voice, Wireless, wireless plans

FileMaker Announces Bento 3 Contact & Customer Manager Template

13 Jan 2010

Announced today, Filemaker has released a free Contact & Customer Manager template via the Bento Template Exchange – a free exchange of templates for Bento 3 that extends the living daylights out of Bento 3 from just an easy way to interface a deceptively simple yet powerful database that arranges notes, recipes, meetings, contacts, even contracts and invoices to an even more powerful application.

AT&T Also Raising DSL Prices In 2010…

7 Jan 2010

Judging from some leaked AT&T talking points posted to our forums, AT&T is getting ready to hit regular DSL customers with some price hikes as well.

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Tags: 2010, at&t, broadband, broadbandreports.com, costs too much, customer service, customers spending more, DSL, DSL price hike, DSL tiers, fail, internet access, ISP, lack of quality, metered billing, price hikes, raising prices, supply and demand, U-Verse, VoIP, VoIP offerings

Yelp + Google… Not So Fast

21 Dec 2009

In a deal that was all but sealed going into the weekend, seems like Yelp’s CEO Jeremy Stoppleman has abandoned that prior deal with Google.

AT&T: iPhone Data Pricing Comments ‘Taken Out Of Context’ – AT&T Simply Wants to “Educate” You

12 Dec 2009

iPhone users need to be educated exactly what a megabyte is, apparently. And the argument that an already hugely profitable company wants to charge even more money for bandwidth isn’t one that sits well with consumers.

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Tags: 3G, 4G, Apple, Apple iPhone, at&t, bandwidth, Cellphone, cellular phone, consumers, controversy, customers, data, EDGE, Education, GPRS, GSM, iPhone, LTE, megabytes, metered billing, Networks, pricing, pricing schemes, profitable, profits, unlimited data, wireless data, wireless network

$860 Million Dollar Fines for LCD Manufacturers that Plead Guilty to Price Fixing

In: Breaking|Computer|Finances|Gadgets|Hardware

12 Dec 2009

Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), among some others, seemed to have gotten a bit greedy for almost 5 years by secretly meeting and agreeing upon setting the price(s) for some TFT LCD displays used commonly in computer monitors.

Vivendi Agrees, Comcast/NBC Deal Soon – $5.8 billion for Vivendi’s stake in NBC Universal

1 Dec 2009

Vivendi executives have agreed with General Electric in principle on a price to offload their 20% stake in NBC Universal, eliminating the final obstacle in Comcast’s planned acquisition of the media giant.

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Tags: acquisition, broadbandreports.com, business, business finance, Comcast, Comcast has that much money, deal, Finances, mergers, NBC, NBC Comcast deal soon, NBC Universal, NY Times, price hikes, stakes, Vivendi

Charter Exits Chapter 11 $8 billion less in debt

30 Nov 2009

Despite the best efforts by creditors who didn’t like the bankruptcy conditions, Charter Communications has announced that the company has exited Chapter 11 after filing for bankruptcy back in March of this year.

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Tags: bankruptcy, broadbandreports.com, cable company, cable industry, ceo, Chapter 11, Charter, Charter Communications, creditors, debt, exiting bankruptcy, Finances, ISP, lousy customer service, metered billing, price hike

How to Avoid Getting Trampled on Black Friday

27 Nov 2009

Once again, I’ll be sitting back watching the news and surfing the internet while somebody unfortunately gets trampled for a relatively inexpensive gadget somewhere in America. Let’s save some lives as well as some money… the following links will hopefully save both.

Windstream Quietly Keeps Growing – Acquires Iowa Telecom in latest move

25 Nov 2009

Still gobbling up rural America accounts and companies, Windstream acquires NuVox and now Iowa Telecom.

Charter Still Fighting With Creditors That Would Rather Avoid Bankruptcy

23 Nov 2009

Charter Communications want to enter bankruptcy protection so they can reorganize. The creditors are saying no… it will cost too much. Fight!

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Tags: attorneys, bankruptcy, broadbandreports.com, cable company, Chapter 11, Charter, Charter Communication, court filings, credit, creditors, interest rates, lenders, metered billing, my bill will be higher, price hikes, reorganization

Will AOL’s Implosion Ever End? Laying off 2,300…

22 Nov 2009

AOL continues an interesting trip that took them from one of the largest and most powerful ISPs on the Internet, to a fractured and financially-troubled company with dreams of becoming an advertising giant. Of course most of their problems were caused by their inability to adapt to the broadband market.

Deutsche Telekom Looking For U.S. T-Mobile Partner – Wants to make move to improve fourth place showing

22 Nov 2009

There’s been a flurry of rumors lately surrounding T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom, and their desire to improve T-Mobile’s fourth-place fortunes in the U.S. wireless market.

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Tags: business isn't good, cellular phone networks, deployment, Deutsche Telekom, fourth best isn't good enough, investment partner, market rumors, network investment, Networks, phone networks, Rumors, save money, t-mobile

Kia Motors Begins Production at its First Manufacturing Plant in the U.S.

18 Nov 2009

The first U.S. built Kia vehicle, a white Kia Sorento, rolled off the production line today at Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia (KMMG), the first opening of an U.S. Kia Motors plant. KMMG is expected to produce 300,000 vehicles at full capacity and employ 2,500 people, with on-site and nearby suppliers creating 7,500 additional jobs in the region.

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Tags: 300k vehicles, Auto, aving.net, cars, cars built in the USA, Georgia, Kia, Kia Autos, Kia built in Georgia, Kia Motors, Kia Sorrento, KMMG, new jobs in America, US auto production, USA

Bell Canada’s Profit Doubles – Without the Need for Usage-Based Billing

14 Nov 2009

Bell Canada’s Profit Doubles – without the need for usage-based billing. In fact, no North American ISP who claims expensive new metering models are financially necessary are ever able to prove it.