T-Mobile isn't a fan of the concept of shared data plans, soon to be rolled out by both Verizon and AT&T. In a post at the company's Issues & Insights Blog, VP of marketing Andrew Sherrard says that consumers do not want, nor would they benefit from a 'one size fits all' family data plan model. "Do families really want to keep track of each others’ data consumption? We don’t think so," he says. "Just imagine mom’s email is suddenly unavailable because her teenage son watched an HD movie on his phone, consuming the family’s data allotment."
According to Sherrard, T-Mobile is sticking by the belief that family members are better served by individual data packages. He also uses the opportunity to highlight that T-Mobile doesn't levy...
If you thought the made-for-TV movie Pirates of Silicon Valley was the last word on Steve Jobs' life, think again: Hollywood is producing two distinct new movies about the Apple co-founder's rise to world renown. Sony acquired the rights to Walter Issacson's authorized biography of Jobs, and obtained the talent of screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and the advice of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to craft its film, while Five Star Features has Ashton Kutcher portraying Jobs and will be filming portions in the original Apple garage. We'll bring you more details here as they're revealed.
This is hardly going to be the biggest Facebook news of the day, but the company has made it a bit easier to stop getting notifications for long comment threads or very active groups. If you check your list of notifications, you'll see an "x" button when you hover over each one. Clicking that will give you the option to turn off any further notifications from the group, event, comment thread, or app. Previously, you could only turn off a set of notifications by changing your general settings or by clicking through to the thread in question, making this a nice, if incremental, change, especially for frequent users. Right now, it looks to be web-only; Facebook has said that the tweak is meant to "modernize the UI and add some features...
It seems like the two upcoming films about Steve Jobs are already engaged in a public relations duel. Earlier this week, Sony Pictures' big-budget production announced that it had signed Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as technical advisor and The Social Network's Aaron Sorkin as screenwriter, and now the rival Ashton Kutcher production has announced that it will film scenes in the actual Los Altos, California home where Steve Jobs lived, and the garage where Apple began its work (pictured above). The film, previously titled Jobs: Get Inspired, now appears to be going by the name jOBS, and it's now set to start filming in June for a release late this fall.
GameStop is looking at several new ways to make money, but here's the most interesting we've heard yet: after you trade in your used games, you might be able to walk out of the store with a GameStop-branded cell phone plan. GameStop Mobile is the name of the company's new initiative, according to a new, highly detailed webpage on the company's site, and it seems to be a wireless mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) offering 3G voice, data and text messages by piggybacking on AT&T's nationwide GSM network. While GameStop sells used iPhones, the idea seems to be that you wouldn't buy the phone from GameStop itself, but rather just buy a SIM card and stick it into your compatible GSM device.
According to the website, prices start at $20 a...
You don't need to be a walking video game encyclopedia to understand why the plot of Indie Game: The Movie makes for such a compelling story. The Sundance award-winning documentary, which premiered in New York City last night, explores plenty of familiar themes about creative individuals struggling to make it in a highly-competitive industry. But the film's heavily-cropped focus on the relatively uncharted topic of independent video game development evolves into a unique and emotionally rich human drama, hurling viewers up close (at points, unsettlingly close) to four celebrated figures who have shunned the studio system to create games that act as deeply personal expressions.
Filmmakers James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot, who spent...
Microsoft has revealed that it has made some big changes to its desktop UI for Windows 8, which includes moving away from Aero Glass — the UI first introduced with Vista. According to the company, this means visual changes that include "flattening surfaces, removing reflections, and scaling back distracting gradients."
Despite all of these changes with the interface, the company doesn't appear to be worried about the issue of "learnability." Instead, Microsoft believes that with a little help it won't take long for users to adapt to the new operating system. "We will help people get off on the right foot," the company explained in a blog post, "and we have confidence that people will quickly find the new paradigms to be...
Just over eight years after Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook in a Harvard dorm room, Facebook has officially gone public today. And, what better time to dig back into the company's history, as documented by everyone from The Harvard Crimson and The New Yorker to Zuckerberg himself? Whether you're figuring out whether to invest or want to see how the world's most popular social network has evolved, we've put together a special IPO day edition of the best writing about Facebook — and several notes from Zuckerberg himself. It's been a rich history, with countless privacy issues, rumors of corporate buyouts, the Beacon debacle, the debut of the now inescapable "Like" button (only two years old!), radical redesigns, and years of IPO...
In the latest of several buyouts, Facebook has acquired social gifting app Karma. The Karma team announced the news today on its blog, and Facebook has confirmed to GigaOm that it acquired both the team and the app. Fortunately, fans of Karma will be able to keep using it, unlike with now-dead Lightbox. "The service that Karma provides will continue to operate in full force," say the Karma co-founders. "By combining the incredible passion of our community with Facebook’s platform we can delight users in new and meaningful ways."
As with Facebook's other acquisitions, the company is focusing here on phone and tablet development to shore up its relatively weak mobile revenue situation. Karma is also more directly monetized than some of...
If you're a Facebook user as well as a fan of staying on top of the ever-churning news cycle, you're going to love this. As you know, The Verge is able to track long, complicated news stories over time thanks to our StoryStream technology (part of the ingenious Chorus platform which powers all of Vox Media). What you might not know is that now if you "like" one of our StoryStreams on Facebook, you'll automatically see major updates to that story appear in your news feed.
Yes, it's that frictionless sharing you've all been hearing about. Now, you're not going to be flooded with updates — we're only pushing new stories that are marked as high priority additions to the Stream, so you get the biggest news as it happens. The functionality...
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