Not a surprise.
For a fifth consecutive time, Apple ranks highest among manufacturers of smartphones in customer satisfaction with a score of 795 and performs particularly well in ease of operation, operating system, features and physical design. Motorola (763) and HTC (762) follow Apple in the smartphone rankings.
Read MoreFeeling a sense of desperation from these two companies. Nokia makes a deal with the devil. Microsoft finds devices for it’s software. But will Nokia users flee for something else. Symbian developers and users are out on the curb.
Read Morefrom computerworld:
Nokia on Sunday hinted that Microsoft essentially won a bidding war against Google to supply software to the world’s largest handset maker and that the software giant agreed to pay “billions” of dollars for the privilege.
Simply, Square is a company that will let you make credit or debit card transactions from a smartphone.
While meandering around the web we made this little discovery, Square. Square is a new company who has a founder from another interesting company, twitter.
Credit and debit card transactions take all kinds of devices physical and technical including merchant accounts that cost you a bundle each month whether you make a transaction or not. This is difficult for small businesses and sole proprietors.
The background story is that “In February 2009, Jim McKelvey wasn’t able to sell a piece of his glass art because he couldn’t accept a credit card as payment.”
The whole process seems terribly slow for a small transaction but the advantages of marketing offers to frequent customers, an identity verification system, text and e-mail receipts, and transactions to the cloud make it a player in this service space.
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Read MoreEveryone loves their iPhone and everyone hates AT&T.
Everyone that I know who has an iPhone complains about dropped calls and sluggish performance. The dropped calls part seems ridiculous after all making calls is what cellular service is all about right? Not since the iPhone entered the fray for smartphone space.
The iphone is really a new computing platform and that has become increasingly clear as the stats come in on what iPhone uses do. They surf the net, buy stuff online. make bank transfers, download music, watch video, twitter, and text message all day and night.
Users of the iPhone are connected every minute of the day. What does that mean for AT%T a network strained beyound their imagination when they signed the deal with Apple that’s for sure. AT&T is in over their head; that’s absolutely clear.
So how do iPhone users who expect much more from their device than AT&T can deliver get better service? Argue with Apple to dump their exclusivity with AT&T. It’s clear that the network burden needs to be spread around.
Factoid:
AT&T’s deal with Apple is said to expire as early as next year, at which point other carriers in the United States would be able to sell the popular Apple phones. Indeed, a recent survey by Pricegrabber.com found that 34 percent of respondents pinpointed AT&T as the primary reason for not buying an iPhone. - NYTimes
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