Recent Comments:
Close Range: A game about shooting people in the face {Joystiq}
Apr 8th 2009 10:11AM Why did you count all the people?
Rat Race isn't all that funny {Joystiq}
Oct 18th 2007 7:45PM How can you rip the Guy Game? Trivia and tits. It never claimed it was anything else.
AT&T moves to prorated ETFs, too {Engadget Mobile}
Oct 16th 2007 4:00PM My company has done this for at least 3 years now, so please don't act like its "new".
Verizon plans to disseminate your data, unless you 'opt out' {Engadget Mobile}
Oct 15th 2007 1:19PM Can you hear me now? Yeah, you can because I used the GPS info Verizon sold me and now I'm in your bedroom while you sleep.
I understand that this is not likely to happen, but I think its scary as hell that there's nothing stopping this from happening.
At what point does this get pushed? A couple of years from now, do I have to worry that some 3rd party is selling my GPS info to a crazy ex-gf? Or my boss when I tell him I can't make it to work, I'm sick. Will he be able to spend the next 8 hours making sure my phone doesn't leave my house, otherwise I was lying?
I know I'm really stretching the limits of what they're talking about, but how many small walls have to come down before this type of stuff is possible?
Confirmed: Rock Band $170, out Nov 23rd {Joystiq Xbox}
Sep 28th 2007 4:34PM @ Tony:
Another plus is that you don't have to own a PS3.
Senators intro wireless consumer protection bill, industry complains {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 19th 2007 8:28AM This is a bunch of crap. You do away with termination fees (or cap them) and you'll be paying close to full price for a new handset when you decide to re-up or go with a different company.
Phones cost money. Towers cost money. Running a business day to day costs money. Carriers actually don't make much money during the first year of having you as a customer. Sometimes they lose money on you. They make the bulk during the last 3-6 months of your contract during a 24 month period.
Effectively, this would hurt the smaller service providers more than the bigger ones. Smaller companies pay more for handsets (because they aren't buying 500,000 of them at a time), and typically have to charge more up front than nationwide carriers. That cost gap will now grow larger.
Just a bad idea from start to finish. This will hurt customers more than help them in the long run.
Rock Band: The next great franchise (an interview with Harmonix) {Joystiq}
Aug 30th 2007 3:59PM Dude, you did an interview and didn't ask about pricing or new songs? Lame.
Fanswag: Win Xbox Live Gold and MS Points {Joystiq Xbox}
Aug 30th 2007 3:42PM Awesome.
