Starting January 15, Super-Carrier Verizon Wireless will introduce a new $2 “convenience fee” for customers who make single bill payments online or by phone, the carrier announced Thursday. The fee is supposedly put in place to “address costs incurred by Verizon for only those customers who choose to make single bill payments in alternate payment channels (online, mobile,.
While we’re all busy paying attention to the latest phones hitting the market in the next couple of months, Consumer Reports was doing a customer satisfaction survey for mobile phone carriers. Once again, AT&T came in last. Again. After surveying their 66,000 subscribers about their satisfaction and customer support experience with the top 4 American carriers, the satisfaction.
If anyone’s happy this time of the year, it’s Google. I’m not talking about any fancy Google Doodles, new homepages, or not even a new device, I’m talking about apps. Starting today through December 16th, Google will be singing songs of joy by giving outrageous discounts on their most popular apps, in celebration of 10 Billion apps being downloaded from the growing.
Late in the afternoon yesterday, Apple quietly seeded iOS 5.1 to developers, without many new features. So far, the only reported feature outside of API chages is the fact that you can now sign up for Apple’s free syncing system, iCloud, without a @me.com account, and battery fixes to kill remaining problems from iOS 5.0.1. Outside of that, there’s only the endless sea of.
Since it’s debut, Siri, the new “Assistant” for the iPhone 4S has been a huge hit, leaving people trapped in their 2-year contracts, begging for Siri to come out on older devices. Now, thanks to a hacker named “PETE” (@plamoni), that vision is very close to a reality. Siri’s servers have been strict in the ways of communicating with devices, currently.
Manufacturers of Apple’s hardware report that they’ve begun shipping components. What makes this more interesting, is that the components don’t match the previous components for the MacBook Pros that we all know and love, they’re thinner. Taiwan-based DigiTimes, believes that these new components will be coming to a 15 inch MacBook Air, or a thinner MacBook Pro.
In ways we can’t understand (knowing about the app approval process), Google “accidentally” put its unfinished long-awaited Gmail app in the iTunes app store. In a fury of complaints from fairly unhappy users, Google quickly pulled the app, leaving a lot of users displeased. If you’re one of them, you’ll be happy to know its back again, and works this time. At.
Ever since the “Let’s talk iPhone” event, people have been waiting on the end of their seats for the feature that lets users (finally) gain the ability to re-download music. As of today, iT’s finally ready. An addition to iCloud, Apple’s successor to MobileMe, called iTunes Match, allows users to re-download their purchaced music at no cost. Up front anyway..
For those lucky people that bought the 1st generation iPod nano back in 2005, you might want to give that bad boy back before it burns your hand. Apple has confirmed that the 1st generation iPod nano’s battery can overheat, posing a safety risk. The defected iPods were sold between it’s release in September and December of 2005, and traced back to the manufacturer that made the.
When the iPhone first came out, everybody was sitting on the edge of their seat, asking if Flash would ever be usable in any of the iOS devices. Apple said no, due to it’s insecure, slow, and unstable self, which paved the way to the HTML5 based internet of today. It looks like after all of the excitement from the Android fans holding it against the Apple fans, it’s all over..
