Comment Unlimited Data. (Score 5, Informative) 538
Some carriers define "unlimited data" as some arbitrary level, which once you break you either lose service, or are charged a hefty fee. Just something to keep in mind.
Submission + - The Recording Industry's Failed Digital Strategy
An anonymous reader writes: The Toronto Star has a terrific
article by Michael Geist on
the recording industry's failed digital strategy. The article
links together the misplaced reliance on DRM and the advocacy for
copyright levies to demonstrate how the record labels got the Internet
completely wrong.
Submission + - How Steve Jobs Played Hardball in iPhone Birth
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes: "Apple bucked the rules of the cellphone industry when creating the iPhone by wresting control away from normally powerful wireless carriers, the Wall Street Journal reports. From the article: 'Only three executives at the carrier, which is now the wireless unit of AT&T Inc., got to see the iPhone before it was announced. Cingular agreed to leave its brand off the body of the phone. Upsetting some Cingular insiders, it also abandoned its usual insistence that phone makers carry its software for Web surfing, ringtones and other services. ... Mr. Jobs once referred to telecom operators as "orifices" that other companies, including phone makers, must go through to reach consumers. While meeting with Cingular and other wireless operators he often reminded them of his view, dismissing them as commodities and telling them that they would never understand the Web and entertainment industry the way Apple did, a person familiar with the talks says.'"
