Louie Sulcer, who is 70-year old, a father of three and grandfather of nine is the winner of Apple 's
; a contest that Apple announced earlier this month to celebrate the download of 10 billion songs over iTunes since the media platform was launched over seven years back.
” song and stands to win a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Recalling his conversation with Steve Jobs, Sulcer says in an interview with
that he was unaware of the contest till (more…)

As part of the quarterly results announced yesterday, AT&T claimed that their network had seen significantly improvements in performance over the past ninety days and there was also tangible proof for the same. Speaking specifically about dropped calls, Ma Bell says the percentage of dropped calls throughout the network has fallen from 1.41% to 1.05% between December '08 and December '09.
” in key areas like San Francisco and New York, the (more…)

It is now over three months since AT&T's announcement and we are yet to see Skype running over 3G. So why hasn't this happened? Why hasn't AT&T delivered on its promise? The answers to these questions are supposedly with Apple . Apparently, it is not AT&T, but Apple that has chosen not to let these iPhone apps run over the 3G network.
In a recent article on their website, Seth Weintraub from 9to5Mac quotes a Skype employee as saying:
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Satirist blogger Daniel Lyons, who writes under the pseudonym '
” to register his protest. In a blog posted earlier this week, Fake Steve wrote
“On Friday, December 18, at noon Pacific time, we will attempt to overwhelm the AT&T data network and bring it to its knees. The goal is to have every iPhone user (or as many as we can) turn on a data intensive app and run that app for one solid hour. Send the message to AT&T that we are sick of their (more…)

Satirist blogger Daniel Lyons, who writes under the pseudonym '
” to register his protest. In a blog posted earlier this week, Fake Steve wrote
“On Friday, December 18, at noon Pacific time, we will attempt to overwhelm the AT&T data network and bring it to its knees. The goal is to have every iPhone user (or as many as we can) turn on a data intensive app and run that app for one solid hour. Send the message to AT&T that we are sick of their (more…)

According to the report, the issue was first taken up with AT&T, and he was told that things were perfect from their end and it was probably a problem with his handset. The Apple Genius Bar at the SoHo Apple retail store who later tested his iPhone to find a drop call rate of 22% told him that this was pretty above average since the average drop call rate in the New York City area was close to 30%. Here is the complete transcript of their report
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