I guess the most exciting thing about the Verizon iPhone’s announcement this morning was the fact that you will be able to use your iPhone as a hotspot for up to 5 devices. This means you’ll be able to turn your Verizon iPhone into a hotspot and share your Internet connection with up to 5 devices around you.
Sounds great, right? It is great. Not so great is that the pricing information has been left aside and no one at Verizon deemed it necessary to let people know how much this great feature will cost…
iDB reader soccerkrzy left a comment on the blog with a link to Verizon’s pricing page for the mobile hotspot feature. According to their website, turning your iPhone into a hotspot will cost you an additional $20/month, including 2GB of data, with each additional GB priced at $20.
Yesterday, we reported that the rumor going around was that Verizon would offer an unlimited data plan for $30. This hasn’t been confirmed, neither has the cost of Mobile Hotspot. I guess we’ll find out sooner rather than later, but something tells me that if Verizon didn’t make a public announcement about the iPhone 4 pricing plan, it’s probably because it’s not as good as we’d hope.
Time will tell.
written by ahmed
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Yes, I made more money than Steve Jobs in 2010. Can you believe that? Chances are, if you worked for a minute or so in 2010, you too made more money than Apple’s CEO. That’s because Steve-o took a symbolic one-dollar salary for the year that ended.
This being said, don’t feel bad for Mr Jobs because the total value of his Apple shares is worth over 1.8 billion dollars. Not bad, huh?
The company regulatory SEC filing shows more, courtesy of 9 to 5 Mac:
The Company believes Mr. Jobs’s level of stock ownership significantly aligns his interests with shareholders’ interests; his total compensation consists of a salary of $1 per year.
$248,000 was reimbursed for company travel on the JobsMobile (the slightly-aging $90m Gulfstream V jet he was given in the last Century).
The company’s net income jumped 70 percent in fiscal 2010 to $14 billion, on revenue of $65.2 billion, an increase of 52 percent from a year earlier.
Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, Timothy Cook, took salary of $800,000 in 2010 along with a $5 million bonus and $52.3 million worth of stock awards.
Cook’s compensation included $40,001 for accrued and unused vacation.(Cook works pretty hard too).
So, did you make more than Steve Jobs too?
written by Debra
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CES is upon us where a whole slew of different tablets are expected to be announced by a wide array of different hardware manufacturers. However, while many tablets will be announced, many of them won’t be on the market for many months. If you’re looking for a big name tablet you could purchase right now and aren’t worried about having to waitig forever for the Android ‘Gingerbread‘ 2.3 update (a la the Samsung Galaxy S and Froyo) then you should definitely check out the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
And by check out I mean make note that the tablet has just been dropped in price on Verizon from $599.99 unlocked to $499.99, also unlocked. Of course, considering the fact that this tablet is running Android 2.2 and also features only a 1GHz single-core processor, you may want to save your money until NVIDIA Tegra 2 powered tablets hit the market.
via phandroid
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A big announcement kicking off the day today, as Firemint announced that they have acquired fellow Aussie developer Infinite Interactive. The agreement means that Firemint will now be the exclusive publisher of all Infinite Interactive games, which means they’ll need more kangaroo pouches in which to stuff all the money they’re about to make.
 “I’m incredibly pleased to welcome Steve (Fawkner, founder of Infinite Interactive) and his team to Firemint,” said Firemint founder Rob Murray. “Steve is an outstanding game designer and our two studios evolved very similar philosophies of developing addictive, fun and polished original games. By bringing our studios’ talents together, we will be able to create even more awesome games – and more of them.”
Fawkner added, “Firemint has had huge success designing, developing and publishing great original games. By joining forces, we now have a way to further develop some of the exciting new concepts we’ve been working on. This new position really frees me up to focus on game design and I can’t wait to get stuck into it!”
Infinite Interactive is the studio behind the extremely popular Puzzle Quest franchise, while Firemint is best known for games like Flight Control and Real Racing 2. With the two studios set to work together it likely means that none of us will ever get anything done ever again, so we may as well just all quit our jobs now and wait for the companies’ first joint-venture game. Will their combined power be enough to knock the traditional powerhouses from their perch atop the App Store? It’s impossible to know right now but we wouldn’t be surprised if whatever they come up with makes some major waves in the realm of iOS and beyond. This is truly a powerhouse pairing, and one with a whole lot of promise.
[ Firemint Acquires Puzzle Quest Creator Infinite Interactive is a post from 148Apps ]
written by rockingevil
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There are plenty of industry reports and infographics that give us an idea about the state of Apple’s App Store. Apps are being sold at an average price of less than $2.50 each, and there is speculation that app sales could be a $34 billion dollar industry by 2014. In 2010, iOS users spent an average of only $4 each month on apps.
I have a feeling that the user statistic of $4 a month is a product of the way that averaging statistics bend numbers. There is still a huge divide between what most would call “power users,” and the “average users” of technologies like the smartphone. (If you read iDB, most likely you’re a power user.)
There are people that are really into buying and trying different apps, and those people purchase a lot of apps. Then there is the vast sea of average, mom-and-dad iOS users who may download a free app every now and then, but don’t make money purchases in the App Store too often. The good news is, you can easily see how much you’re spent in the App Store with a nifty utility for Mac OS X…
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written by zulu
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