AT&T and T-Mobile Get it Done

After years of being one of the only major cell phone carriers not to have a contract with apple, T-mobile and AT&T finally come to an agreement and make a merger! T-mobile already offers one of the best priced cell phone plans around and the only carrier to have nation wide 4G capability. AT&T bought out T-mobile for $39 billion (Cash and Stock), with this merger T-mobile will now offer Apple's famous iPhone.

With this merger many people are angry because as i mentioned above T-mobile offers one of the most competitively priced cell phone plans, and now that AT&T owns them their prices may be going up.

What do you think will happen to T-mobiles current customers?
Do you think existing T-mobile users will move on to Verizon or other carriers?

To read more about this merger read from Gigaom

Instagram and Twitter Clash

One of the main reasons people use Instagram is because of the ability to post pictures from it straight to twitter, however, that has changed with the newest update to Instagram. In a recent business move the social media giant FaceBook has purchased Instagram. It is well known fact that Twitter and FaceBook are rivals in the social media world, so this buyout has created some friction between Twitter and Instagram.

What does this mean for Businesses?

Many Companies and organizations use Instagram to edit and share photos with their followers on Twitter, so with the change they will be having to find alterante photo editing programs to do what they are doing now. If enough companies and individuals start to do this Instagram could take a major hit in users.

How do you think this friction will affect business for these social media sites?

To learn more about the buyout you can read an article at The Economist.

T-Mobile Offering HTC Phone for FREE!

I am a T-Mobile customer.  I also purchased the HTC One S about 3 months ago for $200.  I love this phone.  I have never had a single problem with it.  It doesn't glitch, doesn't freeze, it's never slow, no dropped calls, and it's slim with a phenomenal screen and camera.  The only thing that could have made it better was if they gave it to me for free...

If I had waited just a couple more months I could have gotten this phone for free from T-Mobile.  They are doing this promotion as part of their "Black Friday/Cyber Monday Month" thing that most stores are doing these days.  Here are the drawbacks to this phone (if you want to call them that):

• It does not have an attachable batter
• No SD Card

A lot of people think of these as negatives, but all I see are features that make it more like the iphone.  The battery is a lithium battery that cannot come out.  This makes the battery life on this phone 70% better than that on the popular Galaxy S3.  Also, who needs SD cards these days?  I can share all my information over the internet through my provider.

What I want to ask is, if you had the option of this phone for free, or another phone for $200-$800, what would you do???

Link to Article

Twitter and Violence

To tweet about what you are doing, or what you will eat for lunch is a common thing, and might not get so much attention of twitter. However, when people are tweeting about bigger things in their lives such as relationships or children, their tweets are more likely to get attention. However, recently we have seen a new side of how to use twitter, and that is a sad one; Live-tweeting in a violent conflict.

For example, when the Israel Defense Force live tweeted its strike that killed a Hamas leader, and since basically the whole world constantly are following social medias online, this is a very efficient way of these leaders ability to reach people with their messages.

Personally, I believe that twitter should do everything they can to get rid of spectacles like this since I think it is very inappropriate to have on a social media page viewed by that many people.

What do you guys think about this????

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/15/tech/social-media/twitter-war-gaza-israel/index.

Christopher

Promote an Important Post

A couple of years ago when I created my Facebook, I was amazed about all the features it offered. Just commentating friends pictures was a huge thing for me. However, through the years I have got used most of Facebook’s features and even though I am still using it I am not amazed anymore. It is feelings like this in combination with competition from other social Medias such as Instagram, Twitter and YouTube that pushes Facebook to constantly develop.

One of those developments is that you are now able to promote your own statuses. It works like this: when you are writing a status and you are about to post it you get a button above what you just wrote where it says promote. If you click there you get an opportunity to pay $7.00 to promote your status, and what that means is that your post will come up as the head news on all your friends news feed.

Obviously, this would not be anything I would use a lot for my for my personal life, but it would definitely be something I would use for a business. What do you guys think about it?

Christopher Eriksson
http://geektrickz.com/want-your-status-to-be-highlighted-on-facebook-pay-2-only/

Windows Phones Still Trying

Windows is unveiling their new products.  The biggest take away and advantage for these items?  The price. After horrible reviews and significant problems with their phones, windows has to find a new way to compete.  They decided to play the price war card.

 

With high end Android products ranging up to $400, and the iPhone 5 up $600, windows has come up with a solution.  They are going to offer their best phone for $199, the mid level for $99, and their low end for $49.  They are making affordable smart phones to try to grab a chunk of the market.  There are some original features offered on these phones, but hey, for that cheap what can you really expect?  Is this a good move for microsoft?  And do you think they're just trying to create some buzz before they release the anticipated new Blackberry design?

Link to Article

iPad Mini

Is it an iPod Touch or an iPad or something in between?

This past week Apple launched their newest product, the iPad Mini. The iPad mini is basically a smaller iPad or a larger iPod. Unlike many of their older products, which defined the handheld tech world, the iPad Mini is not the first small tablet. There are many critics out there saying that Apple has lost their touch and, since the death of Steve Jobs, the company as a whole is going downhill. I don't think this is completely true; however, the iPad Mini was not as good of an idea as their past products.

Do you think apple is running out of good ideas?
Do you think that since the passing of Steve Jobs apple will be on the downward slope as a company?


To Buy or learn more about the iPad Mini go to Apple.