Back in July Dish Network announced plans to open its Hopper DVR platform to mobile app developers, and today at CEDIA we saw the results of that initiative.
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Here’s the Bizarre Commercial From Clinkle, the Stealth Payments Startup That Richard Branson Just Backed
Ask Clinkle CEO Lucas Duplan why he still won’t explain how his yet-to-launch payments app Clinkle will work, and this is the answer he’ll give you:
“We really want to make sure we test everything before we start hyping it,” Duplan said in an interview this week.
T-Mobile CMO knocks AT&T for ‘being big and being bad’
T-Mobile US CMO Mike Sievert said that the No. 4 carrier targets rival AT&T Mobility the most in its advertising because, he claimed, AT&T has the largest pool of dissatisfied customers.
Verizon’s McAdam dismisses unlimited data plans: ‘You will run out of gas’
Verizon Wireless believes that competitors like Sprint, which offers unlimited data plans to customers for the life of their phone line, will eventually have difficulty maintaining that promise to customers.
As expected the last mile may go wireless starting in late 2014
LTE Broadcast service may start rolling out in late 2014 from AT&T and Verizon. AT&T field technicians were wondering what those extra slots and optical ports were for in Uverse boxes. More competition for the cable companies.
Facebook Quietly Rolls Out Its Mobile Payments “Autofill” Product
Facebook’s next payments experiment is making its public debut.
Babbel’s subscription-based language learning apps arrive on the iPhone
Avid users of Babbel’s iPad apps, feel free to give your tablet a rest. The full versions of the Spanish, English and French learning apps have arrived on the iPhone, with more languages to follow.