Flying under the radar amid a flurry of announcements coming out of the Google I/O developer conference this morning, is the bigger news of how Google is stepping up its efforts to compete with online payment giants like PayPal with a revamped checkout process for the web, mobile web, within mobile applications running on Android, and more. It’s a proposed death to PayPal by a thousand cuts, leveraging everything from Chrome to Android and even Gmail. What Google hasn’t quite worked out yet is how all this will tie together in the long run, but you can see the plan beginning to form. #1: Google Wallet On The Web: Storing Payment Credentials In Chrome Lets start with the browser, the de facto home for online shopping. It’s not news that the checkout experience is broken. Shopping cart abandonment is one of the biggest pain points for today’s merchants, mainly because their websites have traditionally offered only cumbersome and tedious forms for shoppers to fill out in order to make a purchase. As noted during today’s keynote, one of the hardest things you can do on the web is try to buy something. The process takes around 21 steps, the company explained. Of course, Google is exaggerating here a bit – billing and shipping details are usually the same, but Google counted each field (street, zip, etc.) twice. That being said, things are even worse on mobile. Google notes that shopping cart abandonment on mobile devices is now an outrageous 97 percent. Again, that seems high (here’s the source for that figure), but the trend Google is illustrating with these slightly puffed up figures is not. For comparison’s sake, Monetate’s data put global cart abandonment at around 82 percent as of Q4 2012. The company has been seeing increases in cart abandonment – which had been around 60 percent over the past several years – due to an increased number of shoppers doing research on mobile phones and other devices. As they reach the point of checking out on mobile, they’re now more likely to give up and move on because of the increased difficulty of the experience on mobile’s small screen, combined with retailers’ failure to roll out mobile-optimized experiences even as percentages of mobile shoppers continue to grow at record rates. A number of startups have been attacking this challenge in various forms – mobile apps featuring universal carts,
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Death By A Thousand Cuts? Google Wallet’s Plan To Take On PayPal Leverages Chrome, Android, Google+, Gmail & More
MIT envisions future of talking cars that can plan driver’s day
You wake up in the morning and your robot starts the coffee maker and then sends your daily calendar to your car, which then chooses alternate routes to work so you can avoid major construction on your normal path.
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British archaeologists plan to exhume second tomb at site where Richard III’s skeleton found
Archaeologists who unearthed the skeleton of England’s King Richard III under a municipal parking lot say they want to dig up a 600-year-old stone coffin found nearby.
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US lawmakers plan sweeping review of copyright
A key U.S. lawmaker has unveiled plans for a comprehensive review of the laws surrounding copyright in the United States to determine whether they are still relevant in the digital age.
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Google Floats Renewable Energy Data Center Plan
Google tries to use its buying clout to prod utilities to offer renewable energy option.
Google has spent more than $ 1 billion in solar and wind energy projects but it ultimately has no control over the fuel that produces the electricity that powers its data centers. Google today is proposing a new tariff to buy renewable energy directly from utilities, a model it hopes will help scale renewable energy for data centers and other big energy consumers.
Intel’s Dubious Plan to Take Over TV
Slumping PC sales and a changing server market are maiming Intel. But its plan to sell services for the home’s biggest screen is a long shot.
When Intel lifted the veil from its stealthy media division in February, many outsiders scratched their heads. Why was the chip manufacturer, which has tried and failed to sell consumer products before, trying to launch a TV service, one of the trickiest consumer markets of all?
Hawaii land board approves plan to build world’s largest telescope atop Mauna Kea summit
Verizon announces device payment plan for select smartphones
First word surfaced that Verizon would be shaking things up, switching from 20 months to 24 months for device upgrades. A short while later, a document was leaked to the folks over at Droid Life suggesting that the carrier would be rolling out a payment plan for smartphones. On the heels of that leak is
Verizon confirms 12-month Device Payment Plan for phones is launching April 21st
Look: we know many on Verizon aren’t happy that the carrier has revealed plans to lengthen its upgrade intervals right as smartphone update season is hitting full stride. However, there may be a consolation prize. As of April 21st, “some devices” in its smartphone range, not just the existing tablets, will qualify for a Device Payment Plan that spreads out the full costs over the course of a year, letting those who crave the latest mobile hardware (presumably, you) upgrade without either having to sign a contract or pay everything up front. Sounds like a very UnCarrier thing to do, doesn’t it? Not quite, unfortunately. The carrier tells us that these payments sit on top of existing service plans, not inside them — the base service rate won’t go down in year two. T-Mobile will remain the better bargain for anyone constantly replacing handsets, then, but those on Verizon will at least have a degree of freedom.
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile, Verizon
Via: Droid-Life
Source: Verizon
Google lets users plan their digital afterlife
Our online lives have become so important that Google just released a feature that enables users to control what happens to their data after they die.
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The Next Don: How VCs Plan For The Future
We all remember the last scene in The Godfather, where Michael Corleone is depicted as the next Don, taking over the role from his father as the figurehead of the mafioso Corleone family. As a viewer, we are partly left with a sense of relief — finally, Don Corleone’s wishes for his dynasty to carry on through his son will come true, Michael Corleone has finally accepted his destiny as a mob boss, and the infamous Corleone family will live on for another generation. Horsehead-in-the-bed behavior aside, the way that VC firms groom their talent isn’t all that different from how the older Corleone groomed his sons.
Dell SEC filing highlights bleak outlook that led to buyout plan
In a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, Dell highlighted the dismal financial straits that led to its plan to take the company private, a move that now has some major shareholders in an uproar.
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The After Math: a million Z10s, the UnCarrier’s new plan and a 16-button controller
Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week’s tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages
This week, there’s been a mixed bag of interesting news numbers, from T-Mobile’s New York event and the company’s new perspective on the phone network business, to San Francisco (again) for the Games Developers Conference. We also got to take a look at BlackBerry’s first financial results since the name change and its BB10 launch.
Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming, Sony, Blackberry, T-Mobile
Panasonic’s restructuring plan will let it keep making TVs, for now
After rumors swirled that Panasonic was considering putting a stop to production of its well-regarded plasma HDTVs later this year, the company announced it will stay in the business. President Kazuhiro Tsuga revealed a three year growth plan for Panasonic to focus on batteries and entertainment systems for cars, as well as environmentally friendly housing developments. It will also streamline the number of departments by allowing each division to handle its own products from development to release. The beleaguered TV unit will stay, as Tsuga said it will consider walking away only as a last resort. Additionally, Chairman and former CEO Fumio Ohtsubo will retire in June. Some analysts believe Panasonic will still need to lay off workers if it’s to turn things around, but we’ll have to wait and see how Tsuga’s plan comes together.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Source: Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Nikkei, Asahi Shimbun
Akamai’s Plan for a Wireless Data Fast Lane
Clogged wireless networks spur a plan to speed data to smartphones, for a price.
No matter how quickly you dispatch data over the Internet, the last link is increasingly a wireless link to a customer’s smartphone or tablet. Those links are slower and sometimes congested. These days, while the average desktop Web page loads in two to three seconds, the average mobile Web page takes about eight seconds—sometimes causing shoppers to abandon transactions.
NASA: Sequester could delay U.S. plan to launch astronauts by 2017
NASA and its commercial allies are on track to launch astronauts into space from U.S. soil by 2017, unless the government’s sequester delays their efforts.
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Google shows interest in ASM.js, Mozilla’s plan for fast Web apps
A Chrome programmer seeks support for a new Mozilla technology to bridge the C and JavaScript languages — even though Google has competing ideas. [Read more]
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Two Outside Bids For Dell Threaten Founder’s Buyout Plan
An anonymous reader writes “Seven weeks ago, Dell announced a definitive agreement to be taken private by a group led by founder and CEO Michael Dell and the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, assisted by a $ 2 billion loan from Microsoft and debt financing from a group of big banks. The deal was valued at $ 24.4 billion ($ 13.65 per share of Dell common stock), but allowed for a 45-day “go shop” period for alternative bids to be submitted to a special committee of Dell’s board. Not all large shareholders were happy with the price, and early this month billionaire investor Carl Icahn threatened to tie up the buyout in court unless a large special dividend was paid to shareholders — without showing interest in buying the company himself. More recently, the private equity firm Blackstone Group jumped into the fray, and by Friday night’s deadline both Blackstone and Icahn had submitted bids for Dell exceeding the original $ 13.65 per share agreement. Blackstone is said to be interested in installing Oracle’s Mark Hurd as CEO, replacing Michael Dell. As Hurd was fired as Hewlett Packard’s CEO in 2010 for alleged sexual misconduct involving an outside consultant named Jodie Fisher, he might have difficulty landing another CEO job at a publicly traded company; the Dell position could be an intriguing fit for both sides.”
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SharePoint-Yammer integration promising, but a long-term plan
CIOs and IT managers tracking the progress of the SharePoint-Yammer integration got more details about the road map this week, but the updates were a sobering reminder of the long road ahead as Microsoft works to mesh the two products.
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Plan to hike H-1B cap to 300,000 seen dead; 130,000 cap still possible
The U.S. Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill is expected to include an H-1B cap hike and higher fees aimed at offshore outsourcers.
Computerworld News
Facebook alums plan WiFi network to support 68,500 fans at 49ers’ stadium
The 49ers may not have won the Super Bowl, but at least fans will have something to look forward to during the 2014 season. The brand new Santa Clara Stadium, which boasts 68,500 seats and an estimated $ 1.2 billion construction cost, is expected to pack the country’s most powerful WiFi network. The new installation is being overseen by two Facebook IT alums, and is expected to feature roughly one terabit of overall capacity. According to an Ars Technica feature, every attendee will be able to connect to the network simultaneously, without bandwidth restrictions. That figure is dependent on more devices offering 5GHz compatibility, which seems reasonable considering that the stadium won’t open until late 2014. And, if arena-grade equipment is ready in time, the network will be 802.11ac compatible, though it will also support 802.11n, along with 11a, 11b and 11g, regardless.
Such a network is a key component of any modern structure, and if the team pulls it off, they might want to consider taking on some consulting gigs — as Samsung has proven time and again, the company can’t manage to keep press conference attendees online during major launch events, despite months of planning and unsurpassed budgets. Cellular signals will be boosted as well, with support for all carriers, just in case customers opt out of the free WiFi offering. For a more in-depth look at how the 49ers might pull it off, check out the Ars piece at the source link below — it’s a solid read for sports fans and infrastructure junkies alike.
Filed under: Wireless, Networking
Source: Ars Technica
An Unlikely Plan to Revive the Passenger Pigeon
Advances in genetic engineering have some biologists convinced they’ll re-create extinct species.
Passenger pigeons once darkened the skies over the eastern United States. Huge flocks would roost on chestnut trees, their weight snapping off branches. By 1914, though, humans had hunted the bird to extinction.
Book publishers blast Amazon’s plan to control domain names
Two industry groups argue that the retailer’s plan to control several generic top-level domains, including .book, .author, and .read, would be anti-competitive. [Read more]
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ISP Trying Free (But Limited) Home Broadband Plan
adeelarshad82 writes “Earlier today FreedomPop, a telecom company headquartered in Los Angeles, announced its plans to launch a very low cost home broadband plan for extremely low-intensity users, with 1GB monthly for free. Clearly this is much lower than an average U.S. home broadband usage, which is between 24 and 28 gigs per month. The 1GB of free Internet is basically a teaser; the company aims to disrupt the cable and DSL business with its 10GB for $ 10 plan which is extendable by paying $ 5 for each additional GB beyond 10.”
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EU privacy taskforce plan to take action against Google
European privacy authorities approved a plan to come up with measures to curb Google’s collection, combination and storage of its users’ personal information before the summer.
Computerworld News
A Plan to Give Mobile Data Bills a Makeover
What if mobile subscribers could click a button and top-off their data plan, or even buy mobile Internet access to a single app?
Most people have enough to worry about without micromanaging their smartphone use, but that’s what it’s come to for many device owners. To avoid exceeding a data cap, and incurring a costly penalty, many people try to meter their phone activities or resist the temptation to click on that Pandora app or YouTube link near the end of a billing cycle.
Scientists plan mission to smash into an asteroid
A mission that a.m. to slam a spacecraft into a near-Earth asteroid now officially has a target — a space rock called Didymos.
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Facebook Wants To Make Your Voice Plan Obsolete, Adds Free Calling To Its iOS Application
Following last month’s rollout of free voice calling in its standalone Messenger app, Facebook has today updated its flagship iOS application to offer the same functionality. In the version 5.5 update live now in Apple’s App Store, users in the U.S. and Canada can phone their friends directly from the right-hand sidebar within the application.
France Plans 20-Billion Euro National Broadband Plan
judgecorp writes “France is planning a €20 billion programme to get super-fast broadband to its rural population About half the funds will come from government investment, and President Holland believes the work will create 10,000 jobs. Half the population should have fast broadband in the next five years, and the whole country in ten years. France is at a disadvantage for broadband as it is a large country with a lot of rural areas. However, it also has a more left-leaning government willing to take on infrastructure projects.”
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Library of Congress unveils plan to preserve early US sound recordings
Historic audio recordings aren’t exactly easy to access and play back since they’re often in obscure or aging formats and sit within giant repositories and private collections, but the Library of Congress is gearing up to help change that for researchers and the average joe. The outfit’s freshly announced National Recording Preservation Plan is headlined by a recommendation to create a publicly accessible national directory of sound recordings that’ll act as an “authoritative discography” with details regarding their production and where copies are housed. You’ll still have to take a trip to a library to hear the recordings for the time being, but the Library of Congress is hoping to hammer out licensing agreements that would allow for online streaming. Developing new preservation standards and creating university-based degree programs for audio archiving are also among the 32 short- and long-term recommendations spelled out by the document. Click the second source link to peruse the paper yourself.
[Image credit: Ray Tsang, Flickr]
Via: Huffington Post
Source: Library of Congress, Council on Library and Information Resources
Obama Announces Plan to Shore Up U.S. Cyber Defenses
President uses State of the Union address to launch effort to protect infrastructure against a “growing threat”.
Citing a “rapidly growing threat from cyber attacks,” President Obama said last night that he has issued an executive order that would strengthen the United States’ computerized defenses.
US cybersecurity plan aimed at keeping China out of America’s networks
A Cheap and Easy Plan to Stop Global Warming
Intentionally engineering Earth’s atmosphere to offset rising temperatures could be far more doable than you imagine, says David Keith. But is it a good idea?
Here is the plan. Customize several Gulfstream business jets with military engines and with equipment to produce and disperse fine droplets of sulfuric acid. Fly the jets up around 20 kilometers—significantly higher than the cruising altitude for a commercial jetliner but still well within their range. At that altitude in the tropics, the aircraft are in the lower stratosphere. The planes spray the sulfuric acid, carefully controlling the rate of its release. The sulfur combines with water vapor to form sulfate aerosols, fine particles less than a micrometer in diameter. These get swept upward by natural wind patterns and are dispersed over the globe, including the poles. Once spread across the stratosphere, the aerosols will reflect about 1 percent of the sunlight hitting Earth back into space. Increasing what scientists call the planet’s albedo, or reflective power, will partially offset the warming effects caused by rising levels of greenhouse gases.
EU backs plan to make Internet safer from cyberattacks
EU officials are pushing a plan to make the Internet safer — more resistant to cyberattacks, freer from cybercrime and safer for children to use.
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Dell finalizes plan to go private with Silver Lake's help
In a move that's been much anticipated, Dell is going private. Michael Dell, along with investment firm Silver Lake, will acquire the company he founded by paying shareholders $ 13.65 per share in cash. The deal is valued at about US$ 24.4 billion.
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Why Australian Telco’s Plan To Shape BitTorrent Traffic Won’t Work
New submitter oztechmuse writes “Australian Telco Telstra is planning to trial shaping some BitTorrent traffic during peak hours. Like all other telcos worldwide, they are facing increasing traffic with a long tail of users: 20% of users consume 80% of bandwidth. The problem is, telcos in Australia are already shaping BitTorrent traffic as a study by Measurement Lab has shown and traffic use continues to increase. Also, the 20% of broadband users consuming the most content will just find a different way of accessing the content and so overall traffic is unlikely to be reduced.”
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PSA: BlackBerry 10 doesn’t need a special data plan
With BlackBerry 10 devices wending their way into the hands of patient fans, there’s been some uncertainty as to just what service plans customers need to reach the new platform’s full potential. The short answer, after confirmations at CrackBerry: just about any of them. Unlike older BlackBerrys, the Z10 and future models don’t require tiers with BlackBerry Internet Service or BlackBerry Enterprise Server support in order to work their push messaging magic. Those migrating from a regular BlackBerry plan won’t have to worry about switching, though. The lone exceptions are subscribers who have barebones, social-only plans where BIS serves as the filter. While the switch could lead to price hikes for those cost-conscious users, it’s otherwise good news for BlackBerry devotees who’ve wanted the same choice in service as the rest of their smartphone-owning peers.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, RIM
Source: CrackBerry
Ask Slashdot: Best Pay-as-You-Go Plan For Text and Voice Only?
sconeu writes “My wife uses an assistive communication device. She wants to use it for SMS texting… We currently have Verizon, so we don’t have a SIM. The computer will take a SIM. I’m looking for a pay-as-you-go plan where I can take the SIM from a cheap phone and put it in her computer. Any suggestions?” It would be interesting to hear how this question would be best answered both in the U.S. and around the world.
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Plan Would Put a Bank in Every Browser
An open payments system built into Web standards could transform online life, if the proposal takes off.
Over the past few decades, a handful of open standards for rendering and sharing text and imagery between computers—better known as the World Wide Web—have helped upend businesses worldwide. But these Web standards do not cover ways of transferring money or selling content, leaving us to fumble for credit cards and PayPal account details when it’s time to cough up.
Rhapsody and MetroPCS announce new $5 unlimited on-demand plan for monthly subscribers
In a move that could be considered similar to what Muvu’s been doing with Cricket, Rhapsody announced today it’s teamed up with MetroPCS to bring a more desirable music plan to the carrier’s subscribers. What this means, essentially, is that MetroPCS customers can now pay an extra $ 5 per month on their plan to stream as many on-demand tunes as possible from Rhapsody’s extensive repertoire, so long as it’s one of those recently introduced “simpler” deals. Naturally, how much music folks can stream will also depend on which month-to-month plan they are on, but the $ 5 monthly Rhapsody subscription is set to be the same across MetroPCS’ $ 40, $ 50 and $ 60 plans. According to Rhapsody’s president, Jon Irwin, the MetroPCS partnership was a no-brainer, as he believes it will be “instrumental in the growth of the on-demand streaming music business,” adding that the service is “eager to continue to bring new offers to customers that benefit all parts of the digital music value chain.”
Rhapsody and MetroPCS Offer Best Unlimited On-Demand Mobile Music Deal Anywhere
More than16 million songs and original editorial content available to MetroPCS customers at lowest cost
SEATTLE-January 17, 2013- Rhapsody introduced a new mobile music offer with MetroPCS that will help millions of consumers make good on their resolutions to spend less by offering the best value for unlimited on-demand mobile music bundle anywhere.
“We recognize that music is an important aspect of many of consumers’ lives and we are committed to providing services that enhance our customers’ mobile experiences at a price they can afford,” said Phil Terry, senior vice president, corporate marketing, MetroPCS. “We’ve seen great success with our Rhapsody Unlimited offer and now that we have the best value in town for unlimited, on-demand mobile music, we expect even greater success for MetroPCS.”
Available now, MetroPCS customers can add Rhapsody for $ 5 to its newly simplified $ 40, $ 50 and $ 60 monthly smartphone plans.
“We are thrilled to work with MetroPCS to bring on-demand music to the consumer with these amazing plans,” said Jon Irwin, president, Rhapsody. “The future of digital music is the mobile phone, whether it’s in your pocket, in your car or connected to an in-home audio system, and our future will be built on partnerships with service providers like MetroPCS, who can bring Rhapsody to a broader audience through compelling offers like this one.”
Rhapsody works closely with MetroPCS to tailor its service to MetroPCS subscribers by offering customized programming and editorial content that is updated regularly, a strategy that has been elemental to the success of the offer.
Rhapsody has seen significant growth in mobile with 56 percent of all listening coming from mobile phones, up from 27 percent in 2011. Rhapsody’s Irwin predicts the trend will only accelerate. “This partnership is going to be instrumental in the growth of the on-demand streaming music business,” said Irwin. “This offer brings value to the customer, without compromising how artists and rights holders are compensated, which is a key tenet in how we do business. We’re eager to continue to bring new offers to customers that benefit all parts of the digital music value chain.”
About Rhapsody
The Rhapsody(R) digital music service (www.rhapsody.com) gives subscribers unlimited on-demand access to more than 16 million songs, whether they’re listening on a PC, laptop, Internet connected home stereo or TV, MP3 player or mobile phone. Rhapsody allows subscribers to access their music through mobile phones from Verizon Wireless, AT&T and MetroPCS, through Rhapsody applications on the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, RIM BlackBerry, Windows and Android mobile platforms as well as through devices from Vizio, SanDisk, HP, Sonos and Philips. Rhapsody is headquartered in Seattle, with offices in Frankfurt, London, Luxemburg, New York and San Francisco. Rhapsody, and the Rhapsody logo are registered trademarks of Rhapsody International Inc. Follow @Rhapsody on Twitter and keep up with the latest on the Rhapsody Facebook page.
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Software, Mobile
Source: Rhapsody
Apple online store lets Chinese buy on a 2-year plan, puts iPads within reach
Apple has repeatedly stressed that China is important to its bottom line, but it faces a dilemma given the premium associated with its name: when it can take weeks’ worth of typical pay to buy an iOS device, let alone a Mac, many locals either have to save up or else turn to alternatives. The company may not have truly low-cost devices — at least, not yet — but it is offering an olive branch in the form of installment plans. Chinese who order from the online Apple Store with a China Merchants Bank credit card can now buy virtually anything priced between ¥300 and ¥30,000 ($ 48 to $ 4,821) using up to 24 payments spread over two years. Much like in other countries, there’s higher additional fees the longer the installments carry on. The strategy only helps a certain segment of the population for whom the up-front cost is the lone obstacle; that may be enough in the near future, though, given that there’s still significant demand.
[Image credit: Sina Tech]
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Mobile, Apple
Via: Bloomberg
Source: Apple (translated)
Globalstar's plan for an extra Wi-Fi band draws fire
A satellite operator's proposal to offer an extra channel of Wi-Fi might actually give average Wi-Fi and Bluetooth users less bandwidth, according to some industry groups that have commented on the plan in filings to the FCC.
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Do You Really Need a Voice Plan with That Fancy Smartphone?
With even Facebook adding free calling to its mobile app, voice plans are starting to seem outmoded, but an experiment shows it’s hard to let go.
Talking and texting may have been the first things we used mobile devices for, but they’re hardly the only ones anymore. And when it’s just as easy to place a video call via Skype, send an instant message through WhatsApp, tweet, or check in on Facebook, summoning a phone’s dialer tends to be an afterthought. So could we could be approaching a time when it makes little sense to even have a voice or text plan.
How Verizon’s ‘Six Strikes’ Plan Works
An anonymous reader writes “With the ‘six-strikes’ anti-piracy plan set to begin in the U.S. soon, TorrentFreak has gotten its hands on a document showing how Verizon in particular will be dealing with copyright-infringing users. For your first and second strike, Verizon will email you and leave you a voicemail informing you that your account is involved in copyright infringement. For your third and fourth strikes, the ISP will automatically redirect your browser to a page that requires you to acknowledge receiving the alerts. They’ll also play a video about the dangers of infringement. For your fifth and sixth strikes, they give you three options: massively throttle your connection for a few days, wait two weeks and then throttle your connection, or file an appeal with an arbitration service for $ 35. TorrentFreak points out that the MPAA and RIAA can obtain the connection information of repeat infringers, with which they can then take legal action.”
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Conneticut Groups Cancels Plan to Destroy Violent Games
An anonymous reader writes with an update to an earlier story about a group wanting to destroy your violent video games. “Southington, a town in Connecticut, has cancelled its plans to collect and destroy violent games, stating that it has already succeeded in raising attention.” Perhaps the real reason: “Backed by the Southington Chamber of Commerce, SouthingtonSOS originally planned to offer citizens $ 25 gift certificates in exchange for their violent games, films and CDs, which the group would collect for ‘permanent disposal.’”
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T-Mobile launches unlimited no-contract 4G data plan for $70 a month
T-Mobile USA has announced its unlimited nationwide 4G data plan will be available for $ 70 a month with no annual contract, starting on Wednesday.
Computerworld News
AWS Needs To Figure Out Its Enterprise Plan
Editor’s note: Rodney Rogers is chairman and CEO of Virtustream.
I’m a large enterprise and my ears are ringing. I hear that you, AWS, know exactly what I need. Before I get into that, AWS, I want to let you know that I admire you. You made a market. But this doesn’t mean you know me, AWS, and I believe your foray into enterprise will expose you.
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Huawei linked to plan to sell restricted equipment to Iran
A major partner of the Chinese telecommunications gear maker offered to sell $ 1.7 million worth of embargoed HP computer equipment to Iran, according to documents reviewed by Reuters. [Read more]
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Foxconn, Samsung face dilemma with plan to cut overtime at Chinese factories
Assembly line workers are logging 12-hour days to churn out the latest handsets for Samsung Electronics at a factory in Huizhou, China.
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U.S., Russia forge ‘action plan’ on piracy
The two countries agree on a plan to curtail theft of intellectual property, after President Obama grants Russia “permanent normal trade relations” and the two nations agree to have the WTO’s tenets apply between them. [Read more]
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