Archives for the "AT&T" tag
Paid Content on a tiered structure
Reports that AT&T is planning on introducing a pre-paid card for online content show some potential new developments in the online space. If we were to follow the model further, we could see something new developing, with companies offering a basket of content for a fixed price. For example, imagine you would like to get [...]
Tags: AOL, AT&T, Cable TV, Content, Pricing, Strategy, United States, online world
In Business, Media, Technology
Challenging WAP?
As regular readers of this newsletter know, I’ve been looking a fair amount at how to get untethered from the Internet lately. While I have played with a wireless Palm and looked at WAP, there seemed to be something missing to the whole unconnected Internet issue. What I came to realize is that what works for [...]
Tags: AT&T, Future, Microsoft, Software, Standard, Trends, United States, Wireless, Yahoo, e - commerce
In Technology
It’s Connectivity, Stupid!
Here in New York City, I take my wireless connectivity for granted. The same thing was true of my trips in Europe. Carrying a cell phone and a wireless Palm has never really been a problem and, for a while at least, I was convinced that the wireless revolution was upon us any minute now. Last [...]
Tags: AT&T, Connectivity, Europe, GSM, Motorola, United States, Wireless
In Politics, Technology
MS-DOJ Talks Falter: So What?
It sounded like an April’s Fool fake news statement. I regret to announce the end of my efforts to mediate the Microsoft antitrust case said Judge Posner in a statement released on Saturday, April 1st. But it wasn’t. After 4 months of discussions, any chance for a settlement between Microsoft and the US government seems to have ended fruitlessly. [...]
Tags: AOL, API, AT&T, Apache, Browser, Linux, Microsoft, Netscape, OS, Search, Yahoo
In Business, Politics, Technology
