The Wal-Mart Family Mobile service will run on T-Mobile USA's network. Unlimited calling and texting will cost $45 per month for the first line and $25 for each additional line for the family. The service will be offered starting next week in most of its stores across the nation.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Wal-Mart Gets Deeper into Mobile
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that it is introducing the first cell phone plan that uses the chain's own branding, Associated Press reports.
The Wal-Mart Family Mobile service will run on T-Mobile USA's network. Unlimited calling and texting will cost $45 per month for the first line and $25 for each additional line for the family. The service will be offered starting next week in most of its stores across the nation.
The Wal-Mart Family Mobile service will run on T-Mobile USA's network. Unlimited calling and texting will cost $45 per month for the first line and $25 for each additional line for the family. The service will be offered starting next week in most of its stores across the nation.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
When Kindle Shines
If you absolutely must read your tablet or ebook in bright sunlight, Kindle has an edge. Of course, most of us in the northern hemisphere will not need to do so for a while.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
The Struggles of the Middle Class (comScore Voices)
The August 2010 government jobs report showed that unemployment remains stubbornly high at a level of 9.7 percent of the civilian labor force and rose marginally by 0.1 percentage points from July.
The loss of jobs during the current recession has been deeper and more prolonged than was seen in any other recession since World War II.
It isn't yet clear whether there is a "structural" element to the job losses, or whether something "merely" related to continued uncertainty about the business environment which is causing the unusually-deep and protracted job loss pattern.
One suspects there is a structural element, at one level related to recoveries after "financial" induced recessions. The other possible structural element is akin to what happened in many countries as economies changed from "agricultural" to "industrial" stages, and are continuing to evolve from "industrial" to "information" based forms.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Gaming Might Improve Decision Making
There's a significant controversy over the value of games that are designed to improve people's mental faculties, as some studies have indicated that brain training only helps prepare you for similar tasks, while others indicate that general improvements are possible.
But there turns out to be a type of game that is known to boost a variety of skills, from decision making to tracking multiple objects: standard action games. A study, released today by Current Biology attempts to explain how these video games can produce such wide-ranging improvements.
The authors of the study argue that the root of all these tasks involves making a probabilistic inference, where complete information is missing, so people have to make a best guess based on known odds. Video gaming, in their view, increases the efficiency at which people can process the odds and make an accurate decision—gamers simply can do more with less. As a result, any task of this sort sees benefits.
The authors of the study argue that the root of all these tasks involves making a probabilistic inference, where complete information is missing, so people have to make a best guess based on known odds. Video gaming, in their view, increases the efficiency at which people can process the odds and make an accurate decision—gamers simply can do more with less. As a result, any task of this sort sees benefits.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
More Tweets From Mobile Devices
Since April this year, the number of people using Twitter has risen 27 percent from 106 million to 145 million.
The driving force behind the growth has been the addition of clients that make mobile access easier.
"We quickly understood that we were doing users a disservice by not having a great client on each of the major mobile platforms," said Twitter's CEO, Evan Williams. "So, we took a similar approach with Twitter for BlackBerry and Twitter for Android."
The driving force behind the growth has been the addition of clients that make mobile access easier.
"We quickly understood that we were doing users a disservice by not having a great client on each of the major mobile platforms," said Twitter's CEO, Evan Williams. "So, we took a similar approach with Twitter for BlackBerry and Twitter for Android."
Twitter's mobile site, mobile.twitter.com, was used by 14 percent of users and Twitter's SMS option was used by eight percent of users. Twitter iPhone apps represented eight percent of usage and the BlackBerry app represented seven percent of usage.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
iPad headed to Target?
Will the Apple iPad be sold in Target for the Christmas selling season?
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
E.U. Wants to Release Local TV Spectrum to Mobile
The European Commission is poised to back a plan that would divert a portion of the TV broadcast spectrum to mobile operators by 2013.
The proposal is part of a package of broadband changes drafted by Neelie Kroes, the E.U. commissioner for telecommunications, that would require the 27 members of the bloc to set aside the 800 megahertz frequency band for mobile broadband by Jan. 1, 2013.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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