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 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 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.
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’s next payments experiment is making its public debut.
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.
Google this morning said it had acquired mapping startup Waze, as we had expected it would.
Apple’s long product silence ended this morning at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote with the debut of a number of new products, among them iOS 7, the latest iteration of the mobile operating on which the iPhone and iPad run.
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Verizon Wireless effectively cut the price of its high-end prepaid smartphone plan from $80 to $70, bringing its prepaid pricing closer to rival AT&T Mobility. However, Verizon’s prepaid services are still much more expensive than those from many traditional prepaid and flat-rate players.
Meijer gave my girlfriend a defective rental carpet cleaner that damaged her area rug. They refunded the rental and cleaning solution. Today they cut a check for the damaged rug. Bravo Meijer!