AT&T wants to auto-enroll you in tethering plan
Ah yes, the new bastion of fair usage and caps, AT&T, now decided to auto-switch users who tether their phones by using jailbreak to their special tethering plan, which costs more and gives a separate 2Gb bucket specifically for laptop/whatever data. You probably remember that they’ve done something similar before — Media Net packages with…
Continue reading…If you don’t have an iPhone, you don’t care that much
Marketing from Apple always was exciting and fresh. And occasional inaccuracies are usually written off as per “artistic license”. But lately their standards have fallen, especially when looking at facts. Yes, if you don’t have an iPhone, you don’t have “that” app store. You probably have Android Market instead, or download apps directly (even Nokia…
Continue reading…AT&T adds overages, drops unlimited internet on DLS/U-verse from May 2
So, there it is, that final blow to Netflix’s idea of becoming a streaming empire, or at least put a brake to it, as families with several people watching streaming content will probably run over the limit. AT&T confirmed that starting from May 2nd 2011 there will be no unlimited internet plans. Users on DSL…
Continue reading…Amazon: now without Illinois affiliates
And the attempt to force collection of local taxes goes on. Today’s example — Illinois. Governor has finally signed the law that expands nexus of presence of online stores to affiliates, which means as soon as company has a link affiliate in the state, it has to start collecting local sales tax. This is no…
Continue reading…Say hello to spying SanDisk microSDHC card for Android phones
Looks like the time of passive data storage cards is gone. More specifically, you can no longer rely on the fact that memory card just stores the content (or, potentially, controls access to content by checking key you present to it). SanDisk this month announced a new microSDHC Mobile Memory card (see press-release here) that…
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