Analysts predict that at least 2 million AT&T subscribers over the next year will switch carriers now that the Verizon iPhone is available. Here's how the companies transfer a customer's phone number from one device to another.
1. An AT&T (T) customer walks into a Verizon Wireless store to switch to Verizon's iPhone -- but wants to keep his current phone number. He provides the number and personal identification.
2. Verizon (VZ) MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Feb 22, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Not normally known as an enterprise-focused company, Google is pulling some heavy hitters from the giant across town, including Shinichi Abe, who joined Google Enterprise Japan this month.
As Google (GOOG) makes its way into the enterprise with its apps product, it needs to bring in sales executives with experience dealing with large companies. One of the major complaints of any Google product is the lack of human support/interfaces, and enterprise execs are extremely unlikely MORE
Seth Weintraub - Feb 21, 2011 1:52 PM ET
Publishers reach for new metaphors to describe what Steve Jobs just did to them
Source: Le Monde
It's not easy to explain to customers who like the sound of Apple's (AAPL) new subscription plan -- from one-click purchases to protection from junk mail -- why it's a deal breaker for publishers.
So they've turned to the most powerful weapon in their literary arsenal -- the metaphor. A sample from Monday's news stories:
"Traditional MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 21, 2011 6:37 AM ET
Erin Burnett has hit on what she must think is a winning formula
Source: CNBC
I don't spend a lot of time watching CNBC, but I've seen enough of Erin Burnett's coverage of Apple (AAPL) to see the pattern.
Last fall, it was an interview with Tiger Management's Julian Robertson in which she tried -- and failed -- to get him to call Apple's rising stock price a "bubble." (See How not MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 20, 2011 8:05 AM ET
Who remembers Maemo, imode, MeeGo or, for that matter, Windows Mobile?
Click to enlarge. Vertical line = the present. Source: Asymco
To counter Stephen Elop's remark that by joining forces, Nokia (NOK) and Microsoft (MSFT) were going to make it a "three horse race" -- implying that Apple's (AAPL) iOS and Google's (GOOG) Android were the only other viable mobile ecosystems in the running -- Asymco's Horace Dediu did some digging MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 19, 2011 5:26 PM ET
The strategy worked pretty well for Mubarak in Egypt.
Heading over to the Google (GOOG) Transparency tool this weekend shows that escalating tensions between the Citizenry of Libya and their leader Moammar Gadhafi have incited the leadership to cut off portions of the Internet.
One such bastion of revolution is YouTube, pictured below:
It appears that YouTube was almost entirely shut off the morning of February 17th and continues to be offline. There are also reports MORE
Seth Weintraub - Feb 19, 2011 8:30 AM ET
For a piece of Silicon Valley iconography, this photo is hard to beat
Photo: The White House
Below: The attendee list and who sat where, courtesy of Search Engine Land.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 18, 2011 3:35 PM ET
Held at venture capitalist John Doerr's house last night in the suburb of Woodside, President Barack Obama met the leaders of Silicon Valley to discuss jobs and innovation.
Full size, suitable for wall mounting, here. via Whitehouse Flickr
From the White house Flickr account comes this iconic picture of the heads of the largest Silicon Valley Tech companies including:
Seth Weintraub - Feb 18, 2011 12:24 PM ET
That depends on how broadly or narrowly the market at issue gets defined
Source: Business Insider
The news that the Justice Department and the FTC are eying Apple's (AAPL) new subscription rules for possible antitrust violations has got experts taking a closer look at the markets in which the company competes.
"Typically when a firm reaches 60% or 70% of a given market is when authorities get interested," says Brett Gordon, an MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 18, 2011 12:08 PM ET
Apple's phone for Verizon has a dual-band chip that may allow Apple to build just one phone for all carriers.
After years of "will they or won't they" speculation, the "dream phone," or Verizon iPhone, hit store shelves, and depending on who you ask, it's either the best of both worlds -- the greatest smartphone running on America's best cell phone network -- or simply last year's model on a carrier MORE
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