SMS Pal

We're getting ready to launch a new Web site this weekend and it looks like two blogs have already picked up the same article here and here,

iPhone Prediction

Here's a great iPhone/AT&T prediction I ran heard today:

iPhone will lose its AT&T Mobility exclusivity in the U.S. Not due so much to the hackers unlocking the iPhone to be used by other carriers, but Apple will realize the five-year exclusivity window is too long to forego potential revenue from non-AT&T customers stuck in the middle of their service contracts. A substantial payment from Apple to AT&T and things will loosen up.

iPod Growth Approaches 0%

Last month, AAPL was around $200/share. In today's aftermarket, it's around $137 due to today's earnings call.

Although the drop, over the past month, was precipitated by the slowing economy. Today's drop was due to the fact that the iPod's year-over-year growth is approaching 0%; it was not due to Apple's conservative guidance for the next quarter.



Now, don't get me wrong. Apple's revenues will continue to grow and they could even surpass Microsoft's revenues in the next couple years, but iPod growth, in terms of absolute numbers, can't continue forever.

How Long Until Global Veganism?

I'm sure, a couple hundred years from now, people will look back at us, non-vegans, the way we look back at the U.S. slave trade.

This video doesn't show where chicken meat comes from, but rather, it shows an industry practice in the egg industry.

Faulty Cell Sends 4,700 Text Messages

A faulty cell phone sent 4,700 text messages on New Year's Eve. The total charges came to $42. Obviously, since the bill was less than $700, it wasn't a mobile phone in the U.S.:

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/28572.php?source=rss

Interior Courtyard

Nice model home with courtyard.

So That's How a Sewing Machine Works

Criminal Behavior

This is criminal:

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has raised its post-paid SMS rate from 15¢ a message to 20¢ a message, following Sprint’s move three months ago, reports RCR News. Naturally, this is just a cynical push to get users to sign up to bundles of messages—SMS is the most expensive use of data on a per-meg basis, so there’s no justification for raising the price on the basis of supply costs.


Where else in technology does the cost to move data and information increase except when it comes to the phone companies? AT&T raised the cost of caller ID for my home landline from $7/month to $10/month.

A few months ago, AT&T also raised the cost for me to send a text message on my prepaid cell phone from 5¢ to 15¢.

Completely ridiculous. They simply squeeze every single dollar they can out of their customers.

At what point is the monopoly considered abusive?

The Real Price Of Gold

Here's an interesting graph showing the price of gold since 1450, adjusted for inflation.

In 1980, gold reached a 2007 inflation adjusted price of $2,150/Troy oz.

Click to enlarge.

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Test Post

This is a test for SMSPal, Inc.

Web Site Performance Using Safari

Some how I missed the fact that Safari provides performance statistics.
What an incredible wealth of information. However, I couldn't find this feature on Safari for Windows.

Simply right-click (control-click) on a Web page and choose Inspect Element from the contextual menu. From there, click on the up arrow disclosure icon in the bottom left of the inspection window to reveal Console and Network and then choose Network.

Click to enlarge

Don't Mess With People's Whoppers

From WhopperFreakout.com:



A domainer grabbed wopperfreakout.com.