Across the blogosphere, many people read that AT&T was rumored to have iPhone tethering available this year. Although this was said to never be an official statement from AT&T we all had high hopes.
Now according to 9 to 5, an unofficial Apple news blog, an AT&T spokesman told them to remove the statement that said tethering was coming in late 2009 from their site. A prominent move such as this by AT&T can only hint that they are not ready for the media to make such claims because they must be that far behind.
Price drops and great savings are what iResQ has in store for the many apple users who require special repairs. Included in the roster of stuff that are up for repair include the iPhone 3GS digitizers, matte-finished LCD screens for the MacBook Pros and replacement glass panels. Available in various pricing scales, here are some [...]
Every once in a while, Microsoft attempts to make viral videos in order to gain the attention of an existing product or service. In this case they decided to make a humorous video honoring rejected mobile applications for the Windows Marketplace. By putting this video together, Microsoft indirectly knocks on the Apple App Store application approval process. Take a look and let us know what you think about the video in the comments.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has made a deal with Twitter and Facebook. The deal is non-exclusive. Facebook and Twitter will both integrate real-time feeds of status updates and tweets into the Bing search engine service. Twitter hit about 5 billion tweets yesterday and Facebook has the most number of status updates than any other service. Facebook sends out an estimated 40 million status updates per day.
Microsoft Bing’s market share will benefit from this deal as real-time news is becoming a preference for people. Traditional news agencies are suffering from this and are cutting staff and newspaper circulation. Google will have to step it up if they want to retain their customer base.
Facebook users will be allowed to decide whether they want their status updates to be public or not. The financial details of the deal are undisclosed, but it is expected that the Redmond-based software company will be paying both Facebook and Twitter millions of dollars along with revenue-sharing deals. Microsoft owns about 1.7% of Facebook through a venture capital deal and has an exclusive advertising partnership with the social network.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is challenging Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) by selling music. Google spent the last several weeks preparing deals with the four major music labels: Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music, EMI, and Universal Music Group. The new Google service is expected to be called Google Audio.
When Google Audio launches, I wouldn’t be surprised if YouTube changes their default music purchase promotion to their own service. Currently when watching music videos on YouTube, there is a link to buy the song on iTunes or Amazon.com.
I don’t expect Google to do very well in this service because iTunes has already monopolized the music download market. iTunes is the number one music retailer in the world, even beating Wal-Mart. Google attempted to challenge iTunes by selling videos through Google Video, but it did not have much of a business impact.
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