The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear aircraft carrier in the world, has been officially retired today at a ceremony in Norfolk, Virginia—special appearance by Captain Kirk included. Since her comissioning in November 1961, she has served under ten Commanders-in-Chief, including John F. Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.
The figures and the history of this mighty sea titan are impressive. Here you have them all...
Can Google do anything to make people want to use Google Wallet, its mobile payment tech?
The next thing it might try is to offer mobile phone carriers a cut of the revenues generated by its Google Wallet technology, reports Bloomberg.
Google Wallet let's users pay for things with their cell phones by tapping the phone on a special reader device at a store.
Remember when the best free phone you could get was monochrome candy bar phone? And you were thankful because that Nokia phone had Snake on it. Things are better now—you can get an actual smartphone from a carrier for free (with the usual two-year contract). But which is the best one from each carrier? Let's jump into the bargin bin and find out.
Once again, AT&T has been declared the worst carrier provider by the users themselves. This year Consumer Reports' satisfaction survey—which covered 66,000 people—says the same: AT&T sucks.
Apple might have launched the iPhone without the help of carriers if Steve Jobs & Co. had found a wireless workaround.
IDG today reported that Jobs apparently spent the better part of two years leading up to the release of the company's first iPhone trying to figure out how to turn Wi-Fi spectrum into a network that users could make phone calls on, as opposed to relying on carriers to get the job done.
Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s newest iPhone sold out for pre-order at AT&T Inc. (T), Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) a day before the device officially goes on sale, according to the carriers’ websites.
Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. wireless operator, and Sprint, the third-biggest, showed no immediate stock of iPhone 4S 16-gigabyte models for pre-order on their websites. AT&T, the No. 2 carrier, is giving buyers on its site a delivery estimate of three to four weeks, up from one to two days when pre-orders began Oct. 7.
