I, for one, welcome our Cable Overlords
unlike C-A-D
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Airline Mergers - Visualized
From CNN (Yes. CNN. Go figure.) Its simple, direct, and depressing. Sigh. (Click to embiggen. A lot)
$500? *And* a contract? Is Verizon Nuts?
Ah, the joys of living in a quasi-monopoly for telecom services. Per BGR, the new Galaxy Tab 7.7 is going to be offered by Verizon for $500 . After you plunk down $30/month on a 2 yr contract. Yup, you read that right, thats after you shuck out $720 over two years - thats effectively $1220 for the Tab! On the other hand, you could just buy an imported one for ~$500 on ebay . Hmmm. $500 vs $1220. Way to go Verizon! Update: Looks like I'm not the only one laffing , as Jeff points out that you could buy 6 (!) Kindle Fires for the same amount.
Double Dipping - AT&T Edition
Remember Ed Whiteacre (ex AT&T CEO) and his hilariously ridiculous statemen t about "paying for our pipes"? To refresh your memory ( italics mine) How concerned are you about Internet upstarts like Google ( GOOG ), MSN, Vonage, and others? How do you think they're going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free , but I ain't going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there's going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they're using . Why should they be allowed to use my pipes? Lets break down this bit, so that we are absolutely clear about it. Kittehs! There, you now have a pressing urge to go hit up YouTube, right? Kittehs ! I'll make it easier for you You're watching the above Kitteh video, right? Of course you are.... T...