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The Telecom Digest for June 20, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 150 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
Apps I Want to Go Away (Monty Solomon)
Mobile Advertising: The $20B Opportunity Mirage (Monty Solomon)
Google, Apple Tighten Grip on Smartphone Market (Monty Solomon)
Verizon Raises FiOS Prices, Speed (Monty Solomon)

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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:15:24 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Apps I Want to Go Away
Message-ID: <p06240866cc05b9c7b893@[10.0.1.3]>

Apps I Want to Go Away

By SAM GROBART
JUNE 14, 2012

In my most recent Tool Kit column, I explained how to better organize 
the apps on your smartphone. But in the article, I wrote half a 
sentence that's been bugging me:

"But 24 additional Apple apps also cannot be deleted ?"

I haven't been able to shake it. Why? Why can't those apps be deleted?

Now, I know they can be deleted, if I really want them gone. But that 
requires jailbreaking my iPhone and, well, I have a thing about 
jailbreaking. Rather, I have a thing about warranties; I don't like 
voiding them, so hacking my iPhone to achieve my minimalist ideal is 
not an option.

I also recognize that a few of those two dozen apps are what you 
could call "essential" apps. They interact with other features on the 
phone and are too important to be deleted. Among the built-in, 
nondelete-able apps that I would classify this way are:

...

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/apps-i-want-to-go-away/




Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:15:24 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Mobile Advertising: The $20B Opportunity Mirage
Message-ID: <p06240867cc05ba9eeae1@[10.0.1.3]>

Mobile Advertising:
The $20B Opportunity Mirage

June 10, 2012
Edited by Jean-Louis Gassée

There are a lot of questions left to be answered about Facebook's IPO 
fiasco, but one thing we know is this: As consumers shift their use 
of Facebook from PCs to smartphones, investors worry about lower 
mobile advertising revenues. Is this a temporary situation that will 
be remedied when usage patterns settle, or do investors have a right 
to be concerned? Must the advertising industry learn to adapt to a 
permanently leaner income stream from smartphones?

Let's start by taking another look at Mary Meeker's latest Internet 
Trends presentation from last week's All Things Digital conference. 
On slide 17, she projects a $20B opportunity for Mobile Advertising 
in the US:

...

http://www.mondaynote.com/2012/06/10/mobile-advertising-the-20b-opportunity-mirage/




Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:03:01 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Google, Apple Tighten Grip on Smartphone Market
Message-ID: <p06240865cc05b850609c@[10.0.1.3]>

Google, Apple Tighten Grip on Smartphone Market

By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO And AMIR EFRATI
June 18, 2012

Apple Inc. and Google Inc. have brought mobile giants Nokia Corp. and 
Research In Motion Ltd. to their knees and captured more than 80% of 
the world's smartphone market. Now they are going after the rest.

Apple is marching into new markets-most recently U.S. prepaid mobile 
phones-to continue the growth of its iPhone and iPad devices and iOS 
software.

At the same time, the Cupertino, Calif., company is developing 
software, such as mapping, that it once obtained from Google to make 
its devices stand out and to control some features more tightly.

Google is shifting gears with its Android software to exert greater 
control over its destiny. In the past, Google relied on hardware 
manufacturers to build Android devices and on carriers and other 
retailers to sell them to consumers.

Today, Google is partly adopting Apple's integrated model by 
manufacturing some devices on its own and it plans to sell several 
devices directly with big marketing campaigns.

What's behind these moves? Apple and Google see bigger gains ahead. 
Of the about 1.4 billion phones sold this year, only about 35% will 
be smartphones, a percentage projected to climb to 75% in the next 
five years, according to research and trading firm Wedge Partners. 
That potential bounty is intensifying the fight to sell more devices 
and accompanying services.

...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303379204577474794114369320.html




Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:00:45 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon Raises FiOS Prices, Speed
Message-ID: <p06240864cc05b73c2000@[10.0.1.3]>

Verizon Raises FiOS Prices, Speed

By THOMAS GRYTA
June 18, 2012

Verizon Communications Inc. raised prices and increased the speeds 
for its home Internet service, making data a bigger part of 
consumers' monthly bill for phone, television and broadband service.

The New York-based telecom company estimated the move would add about 
$10 to $15 per month to the average customer's data bill but noted 
that users may be able to adjust their television packages to pay 
roughly the same monthly total that they pay now. Some customers 
already have cut or scaled back their pay-TV bill and now use their 
Web connection to watch TV.

The data bill for Verizon's FiOS customers will be based on the 
network's speed, as set by the customer. Faster speeds will cost more 
money. Focusing on the speeds allows Verizon to charge more to those 
who demand more from the network and provides the company with an 
easy way to adjust prices as Internet habits change.

...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303703004577474491608119330.html






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