Tag: verizon

Compuserve Forums to Finally Bite the Dust

The long running messaging and forum service, CompuServe is now on its last month of borrowed time.   With messaging and chat services no longer being viable money makers and the forums pull dwindling, the longest running communications service in America is coming to a close. According to a posting on the forums, Dear Forum friends and family, We regret to inform you that the Forums will be removed from the CompuServe service effective December 15, 2017. For more than two…

4.2 Million iPhones Sold by Verizon

During the fourth Quarter 2011, Verizon sold a total of 4.2 million units of the latest rendition of iPhone.   This number was more than double the number of units sold by Verizon during the third quarter.   While this is good news for both Apple and Verizon, the news has not particularly been good for the stock where their price is currently at $39.21o USD or down 1.309% for the day. The stock had over 2 million share trade today but…

Apple Pre-Orders for iPhone 4S “Best Ever”

Apple, Inc. began taking pre-orders for their latest incarnation of the iPhone, the iPhone 4S.  While many speculated that the pre-ordering was done because of the hohum attitude about the new device, sales of the new phone have been more than satisfying to the companies selling the device. A few early morning issues with server availability caused some frustration among buyers, yet AT&T reported that their systems had taken over 200,000 orders for the new phone in the first 12…

Well, I plunked down $199 for the Verizon iPhone….here is what I think..

I might be a little late to the game in all this but I never had an iPhone before. Mainly cause I was on verizon and was not going to jump ship to get it. Not after hearing how horrible the network was on AT & T. So my plan was up in February and I said, I am not going to get the iphone now because they were going to come out with iPhone 5 (rumor) and I would…