TwitLonger — When you talk too much for Twitter
TwitLonger is the easy way to post more than 140 characters to Twitter
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"Google spent $12.5 billion in 2012 to buy Motorola Mobility and its patents, and only $5.2 billion in 2011 on R&D," Chien explains. "In 2011, Apple spent $2.4 billion on R&D but contributed more — approximately $2.6 billion — in a single transaction to buy patents from Nortel."
That's a quote from my story today — super indepth — on the patent sit. Sounds boring, but damn, there is intrigue in those patent stories! and what characters!
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229100/Can_the_U.S._patent_system_be_saved_?taxonomyId=214&pageNumber=2
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The 1970s epitomized, #ford Pinto Cruising Wagon http://t.co/QdLitQ7s
A remarkably oxidation free Triumph TR8 http://t.co/NfcztqCZ
When the wireless companies started rolling out family share plans some years ago the pricing actually worked out to be beneficial for many users as they paid significantly less for additional lines than they would otherwise pay for a separate account.
This time around, the wireless companies have decided they weren't going to be so generous. For most customers that don't use 3G/4G tablets, they will be lucky to get away with paying about the same amount every month in exchange for giving up unlimited data and getting uncapped access to the voice and SMS service that they are generally using less of.
For me personally we never use up the 1,400 minutes I pay for on five lines (4 smartphones and one Verizon at home line) but we have 4 unlimited data plans. Going to the shared plan with 6GB of data to share among 4 people would cost me within a few dollars of my current bill.
The people that will benefit from the new plans are those that have few lines and multiple additional devices like tablets. They will go from $30 a month for a tablet to $10.
I don't want an unlimited voice and messaging plan for all my phones. If Verizon would offer me 700 or even 1400 minute plan for $25-30 per line, I would switch over but under the current set up I will stick with what I have for as long as I can.
Do shared iPhone data plans help consumers?
With AT&T announcing its shared data plan, it joins Verizon with a new model aiming to get consumers to pay for a shared bucket of data, voice and texting among multiple devices on a family account. The companies argue that it will save money in the long run, and for some, it just might.
But should you and your account sharers leap on the shared-data plan? If you’ve been holding onto a grandfathered unlimited-data plan and holding off on a mobil…
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In album Ford employee car show (153 photos)
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Aaron Sorkin versus reality
The increasingly unpleasant superiority complex of America’s most prominent liberal screenwriter
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Why would Boeing design a mid-wing, twinjet, double-decker 747?
Breguet’s range equation is a cruel tyrant. The fuel-efficiency conscious airframe designer has only three levers — weight, thrust and aerodynamics — to pull, and yanking one often complicates things for the other two. At the concept stage, however, it still helps to tug upon one of Breguet’s levers, just to see what happens. So it appears with the Boeing design concept named “mid-wing aircraft”, which is revealed as a patent application publis…
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Verizon Q2 2012 financial results: 888K new wireless subscribers, half of customers using smartphones
Verizon just announced its financial results for Q2 2012 and the wireless business had yet another strong quarter. The nation’s biggest wireless carrier added 888,000 new postpaid subscribers and…
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