It should come as no surprise that the Twittersphere was (and still is) all a-buzz about the iPad — the
As you can see from the chart below, there was an instantaneous and incredible spike of tweets mentioning the iPad as soon as the name was revealed earlier this morning. The second chart highlights the disparity between “iPad” and “Apple” tweets.
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If you like your links hyper, here is that AP story, AT&T’s financial sheet [PDF], and the post in which Fake Steve Jobs originally pointed out this disparity. Namaste.
Comcast, when it imposed a cap of 250 GB download limit per calendar month, promised a usage meter to track data consumption. Looks like that promise is finally being fulfilled, at least for subscribers in Portland, Oregon.
According to a note from Comcast: “The meter displays usage on a per Gigabyte (GB) basis, over a calendar month, which may be different from the customer’s monthly billing period cycle. The meter updates roughly every 3 hours and is designed to display usage conservatively and in favor of customers, such that it rounds DOWN usage to the nearest GB rather than rounding up.” (Given the disparity between calendar month and billing cycle, and rounding down rather than up, how useful will this meter be for avoiding overage charges?)
Comcast notes that “99%” of their subscribers won’t have to be concerned. Their median subscriber only consumes between two and four gigabytes of data per month. The meter, it appears, is for that 1% that might be exceeding the limit.
But, might it be possible, that in providing the meter, Comcast has thrown down a gauntlet? Some of those “median subscribers” might take it as a challenge to see just how close to 250 GB they can come. Another example of best laid plans?
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According to MediaMemo, Google might be looking to ink an agreement with networks to let YouTube stream TV shows — for $1.99, just like iTunes (and Amazon).
Of course, when you pay iTunes $1.99 you get a local copy of the TV show on your PC — to keep — and the ability to view it [...]
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The year is 1963. It’s November. At 1:40 PM ET, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite comes on the air. “In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy’s motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting.” Rapidly, everyone in America descends upon the closest television set to tune in.
Thankfully, we have not yet had a tragedy of that magnitude in the age of the realtime web. But we will. It’s just a matter of time.
If it were to happen today, most people would still turn to their TV sets to get the most up-to-date information on such an event. We saw that on September 11, 2001. But a large number of people would also now turn to the web. And there they would likely find the information they were looking for faster than those watching on television. We’ve seen it time and time again recently.
We, as in the tech press, are all over Palm’s new mini-Pre. But we, as in the internet, just don’t seem to care about it—just ask Google.
Compared against the Droid Eris, the decidedly secondary, little-advertised rebranded Hero that happens to be launching alongside the Droid Droid (and also happens to be the cheapest new Android phone on the market), the Pixi’s hasn’t been driving much Google traffic at all, according to Google Trends. More odd is that even with reviews starting to hit, exciting deals showing up online and a release date rapidly approaching, the Pixi’s buzz is flat. Yes, that Pixi—thelegitimately interesting handset aimed at a broader audience than its much buzzier predecessor. Hm.
A couple of points: Although I searched for “Droid Eris” in quotes, there’s a good chance the Eris is getting a leg up on Google searches by piggybacking on the hyper-hyped Droid Proper. Also, I’ve seen three people, two of whom work with gadgets for a living, write “Pixi” as “Pixie” in the last 24 hours, which is funny! Also: probably a bad sign, for the buzz. But still, that explains a disparity, not totally flat interest, or the weirdly tiny bump in attention the phone got when pricing was announced back in October. General public: what gives? [Google Trends]
Perhaps the DRAM market is on the road to recovery after all. Business has picked up as of late, and according to Pai Pei-Lin, VP and spokesperson of Nanya Technology, contract prices for DRAM chips will continue to climb next month.
In a sort of domino effect, Pai said he expects Windows 7 to set in motion a long overdue upgrade cycle that has been stalled the past three years because of disinterest in Vista. This will mean even higher demand for DRAM chips, potentially reaching the DRAM market’s peak it in 1995, and ultimately a shortage of chips in 2010 as memory makers reach their limits in capacity output.
According to Pai, DDR2 and DDR3 will likely split the market evenly in the first quarter of 2010, but their could be a pricing disparity. Contract prices for DDR2 chips have been rising since August and finally surpassed DDR3 this month, and that trend looks to continue for at least the next couple of months, Pai noted.
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Going strictly by the numbers, those who are rocking their email through Yahoo have a lower credit score than, say, Gmail users. In fact, according to Credit Karma, an online credit checking service, Yahoo email users tend to have the worst credit of all.
Credit Karma combed through its database and ranked the average credit score by email provider. For what it’s worth, BellSouth and Comcast took the top two spots with the highest credit scores, while Gmail came in third with an average score over 680. Then it dips down, with MSN, Hotmail, and AOL taking the next three spots with an average credit score of 665 or less.
The rankings are based on credit scores from 20,000 users, so the sample size is arguably enough not to skew the results. So then the question raised is why the disparity? Credit Karma didn’t say. Maybe Yahoo’s spam filters trail the competition, or as Mashable.com surmises, maybe the lower ranked email addys represent a younger audience.
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We don’t have the answer, but we’d like to hear your theories. Sound off in the comments section below!
The broadband infrastructure of the United States is a little on the poor side when compared to some other nations. According to a new FCC report, the best way to fix that is to open up broadband access and increase competition. The FCC hasn’t considered requiring open access to broadband facilities since 2002. The principal of ‘open access’ says telecoms, like cable companies, should allow access to their physical infrastructure for competing businesses that don’t own infrastructure. Telephone carriers (i.e. DSL) are required to do this, cable providers are not.
The study was quoted as saying, “The lowest prices and highest speeds are almost always offered by firms in markets where, in addition to an incumbent telephone company and a cable company, there are also competitors who entered the market, and built their presence, through use of open access facilities.” The US is also expected to use stimulus finds to increase access to broadband.
The 232-page report estimates that building out the US infrastructure would cost at least $20 billion, and as much as $350 billion. The wide disparity in cost is the result of uncertainty as to what speed should be offered. The report says one-third of Americans have broadband access at home but do not subscribe, and 4% have no access at all.
Dell in the past 12 months has been making a concerted effort to reduce its carbon footprint and go green, but according to Newsweek, Hewlett-Packard is the greenest Fortune 500 company around. That’s an interesting position to put the OEM in, considering Greenpeace ranked HP No. 14.
So why the disparity? Well, according to Gizmodo, Newsweek takes a holistic view when ranking companies, which includes greenhouse emissions, water consumption, and supply chain management. Greenpeace, on the other hand, is about the benchmarks, such as how much toxic chemicals are being used.
One specific area in which the two rankings disagree is with HP’s use of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and brominated flame retardant (BFR). Greenpeace was critical of their use, while Newsweek praised the company for its diminished usage.
As for Dell? The OEM still ranked high in Newsweek’s report, taking the No. 2 spot. The rest of the top 5 included, in order, Johnson & Johnson, Intel, and IBM.
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