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Verizon essentially says Google is Stealing!

What is the deal with this company. Check out the comments coming out of Verizon. “A Verizon Communications Inc. executive yesterday accused Google Inc. of freeloading for gaining access to people’s...

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Verizon reporting your late payment to credit agency is gift!

Well with a gift like that it makes you wonder what they do when they send a collection agency or fire someone as an employee. What company in there right mind would say that reporting your late...

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GNC-2006-08-18 #197

This show is packed end to end with a lot of content with a special appearance of Chris the two year old who brings the house down. We have a new spokes person for GoDaddy in his segment! Sponsors:...

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Verizon implements questionable surcharge that is really a Rate Hike!

Last week one of the readers to this blog and a listener of the podcast sent me e-mail about a new surcharge that Verizon is charging it’s DSL-Only subscribers, I covered it in the podcast but not on...

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Verizon Math Debacle

A frustrated Verizon customer spent a good twenty minutes and then some trying to explain to several Verizon customer service reps simple math. He was misquoted on a usage charge and they just didn’t...

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Verizon working on 4G sooner than later?

Verizon and AT&T are going to transfer their systems over to the 4G LTE systems throughout 2010 according to past releases.  It appears that Verizon could be accelerating that time schedule...

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New Droid Drops Ad

A very cool droid commercial. I just wonder if they are really going to air drop the phones to places where the people don’t know what they are.

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Charging Us More For Your Failures Won’t Make us Like You Better

Verizon announced yesterday that they are doubling their early terminations fees, to reach as much as $350 for some users. I have never understood the use of early termination fees as an alternative to...

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Motorola Droid getting First update

Verizon Wireless is rolling out the first droid update starting today. From the Verizon webiste: The following enhancements to the Droid by Motorola have been made: * OS stability is improved. *...

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Smart Phone Critical Mass

The smartphone is a concept and an evolving device that has been around for a few years, though until now mass consumer adoption has been slow. The introduction of the iPhone in June 2007 marked a...

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History Is About To Repeat

I remember it well. Back around October of 2004, I first heard the word “podcast” used on The David Lawrence Show via my XM Satellite Radio. It sounded interesting, and I wrote it down on my driver...

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So Is The iPhone A Good Phone?

When the iPhone came along in 2007, many people were immediately disappointed, including me, that it was tied at the hip to AT&T. In retrospect, that set the stage for what was to follow....

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Prove it: Challenge to Modders, Make Me a CDMA iPhone 4

Rumor, rumor, on the wall. Apple rumors talk abound. Are they true or are they not. Rumor, rumor fill my pot. Thought I would make a nursery rhyme on this. After all, rumors seem to be Mother Gooses...

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Does The Cloud Have A Dark Side?

For some time we’ve been hearing about the virtues of cloud-based computing. Certain functions seem to lend themselves to the cloud. Online word processing, spreadsheets, etc. can seem to make sense in...

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Amazon Kindle E-Books

Shortly after getting my HTC Evo phone, one of the initial apps I downloaded from the Android Marketplace was the Amazon Kindle app with the idea I’d probably check it out at some point. Weeks went by,...

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The Verizon Refund Debacle

In case you missed the news yesterday and today, Verizon Wireless is refunding approximately $50 million to about 15 million of it’s wireless customers.  This stems from incorrect billing that the...

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Verizon’s Android Problem

With the release of the Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Incredible in early 2010 Verizon became the US leader in Android phones.  Later they came out with the Droid X, Droid 2, Droid Pro, and Samsung...

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Verizon And HP Introduce 4G Notebooks

Today Verizon partnered with HP to announce their new 4G LTE laptops – HP Pavilion dm1-3010nr Notebook PC and the Compaq CQ10-688nr.  They are claiming that customers can expect download speeds of 5 to...

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The Verizon 4G LTE HTC Thunderbolt

At CES 2011 Verizon was showing off the brand new HTC Thunderbolt, which will run on their 4G LTE network – the next generation network that is currently being rolled out.  With this new super fast...

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Flixwagon Mobile Video Broadcast and Social Networking Platform

Arie Offner and Roy Ginat present Flixwagon (http://www.flixwagon.com/), a mobile video broadcast and social networking platform. The product is aimed at business and corporate users. Verizon will be...

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