Verizon's going to start selling WiFi iPads bundled with a mobile broadband hotspot. Combined with aggressive data pricing, we're hoping this is the beginning of an all-out wireless data price war.
Starting October 28, Verizon will sell the WiFi version of Apple‘s iPad. While this isn’t surprising in light of the increasing volume of rumors that the wireless carrier will soon offer an iPhone and the fact the both Target and Walmart now carry the device, what is interesting is the nature of Verizon’s iPad offering as it relates to wireless data.
As we mentioned above, Verizon’s only selling the WiFi version of the iPad, which makes sense considering the 3G version only works on rival AT&T‘s network and costs $130 more. What’s interesting is that Verizon will sell customers an iPad and one of their 3G wireless hotspots for the same $130 premium.
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We're as psyched as anyone that the miners have been rescued, but we think everyone should temper their happiness until it's clear we're all safe from the risk of any of the actors on our list appearing in the movie that will soon be "inspired by the incredible true story."
Great news: those thirty three Chilean miners who’ve been trapped underground for the past 69 days have started to emerge, one by one from their rescue tunnel. We’re naturally extremely happy for the miner’s safe rescue and glad they’re being reunited with their families, even if CNN‘s coverage has been a little over the top. (Seriously, their @CNNLive tweets make all the miners seem like Wheel of Fortune contestants.)
We’re sad therefore, to pass along some bad news that’s also been trickling out of Chile. It seems like the miners are starting to sign movie deals. We’re all for them getting paid for their harrowing ordeal and amazing survival, but we’re not excited for the award-bait movie that’s no doubt going to result sometime in 2012 or 2013. With 33 men trapped in the mine, plus numerous roles for anxious wives/girlfriends/mistresses and children, it’s a casting agent’s dream, and every movie patron’s nightmare.
With this in mind, join us after the jump as we take a look at 10 actors we’re dreading will appear in the Chilean miners movie adaptation.
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You didn't hear? We got great deal on a logo redesign from designer who has done logos for high-profile brands like Gap.
Last week, San Francisco-based retailer of casual clothing Gap Inc. suddenly and without fanfare changed its logo. The response to the new look was, to be blunt, negative. As the comments on this official Gap Facebook post make clear, the kind of people who bother to follow Gap on Facebook (presumably their best customers) were not happy with the new logo.
Sure, the traditional Gap logo smells a lot like Chandler’s circa-1993 khakis, but they’ve worked quite hard to make it very familiar over the last twenty-odd years. Moreover, it’s not as if the new logo was better in any way. Old look was somewhat dated, the new look had what might be charitably described as a “WordArt” vibe. No matter what Gap president Marka Hansen said about it, she wasn’t going to convince anyone that the new look was “more contemporary and current.” (Also, her Huffington Post piece brags about “new black pants.” Really? Black pants?)
All that said, as late as yesterday the matter looked settled. A weekend Gap visit confirmed the new logo rollout was ongoing, and sooner or later we’d probably get used to it.
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Ahh, Columbus Day–a day when we can all kick back and enjoy an early fall cookout with our families.HA!Of course, this isn't the case, because Columbus Day is not a real holiday. (Sorry, postal workers.)
Happy Columbus Day!
What’s that? You’re at work or school today? Come to think of it, so are we… Hey, wait a minute! Just what kind of “holiday” is the Columbus Day thing anyway, and what did the largest city in Ohio do to deserve its own holiday?
Oooooh…it’s Christopher Columbus Day and it’s a federal holiday? Well, now we kind of get it, but what does it mean and why are we at work?
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Despite their love of simplicity (the green block above is their flag), the Libyans don't appreciate the simplicity of .ly URL shorteners.
In a classic example of what we might call “imperfect timing,” URL shortening service bit.ly announced today that they’d raised an additional $10 million in a just-concluded round of funding. Their blog post on the matter includes a pretty graph showing bit.ly’s incredible traffic growth and several statements about the service’s popularity. What the post omits, however, is that the .ly top level domain is controlled by Libya. That’s right, all those .ly domains are completely beholden to the Lybians, who have very recently begun to exercise TLD their authority.
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Is this the face of the man who will stop Weezer? Though he looks heroic, we can't be sure, but since this is the only "James Burns" we found in Seattle during our exhaustive two minute Facebook search, it's a distinct possibility.
From the alternative-y pages of Seattle’s The Stranger (and from there via tons of music sites), comes word that once again, that in our planet’s hour of need, a hero has emerged. A Seattle man has a plan to end the suckitude that Weezer has become once and for all. It’s a plan so brilliant and at the same time so crazy that it just might work, but he needs your help. One man cannot end Weezer alone. It takes a village to raise a child, and, apparently, it will take $10 million to stop Weezer.
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Google has updated its iPhone app with Google Goggles, which is nice. If Google gave away goggles like this that ran Google Goggles, though, we'd be really psyched.
The interwebs have been (and please pardon our pun here) a-buzz over Google‘s Android smartphone operating system today. First, Nielsen announced that nearly one third of people buying a smartphone are now buying Android phones, making Google’s phone OS the market leader. Hot on the heels of this news, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that despite the fact that they give it away for free, Google is making money off of Android already thanks to advertising revenue, and is more than covering its development cost. In light of all this news of Google/Android domination, we were surprised to hear that today was also the day that Google Goggles was coming to the iPhone. Like our friends at Engadget, our immediate question was why?
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A T-shirt bearing the comically-dated Astoria University logo is the only thing that's actually offered in the Astoria University SkyMall ad. Join us as we investigate this mysterious T-shirt granting institution.
Over the weekend, one of us had the privilege of flying on Southwest Airlines. Since some ridiculous agreement between the FAA and airlines means that we’d be yelled at if we broke out our iPad/iPod/Kindle or anything else fun or informative, we were forced to brave whatever content Southwest had decided to put in the seatback pocket in front of us. Boy are we glad we did. Among the usual staggering array of crap in the typical of the SkyMall catalog, we found a true gem, an ad so mysterious and non-sensical that we simply had to find out more. Join us after the jump as we delve into the mystery of the Astoria University SkyMall ad.
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