6:39 PM
US student-loan debt is $986 bil, while China's total external debt is just $711 bil:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/07/us-student-loans-are-more-than-chinas.html
Starbucks is switching from AT&T to Google for its free WiFi, getting about a 10x increase in bandwidth for their customers (100x speed improvement in cities with Google Fiber):
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/starbucks-ditches-att-googles-free-wi-fi/2013-07-31
Interesting article about how the future of mobile devices for Google is Chrome, not Android:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/move-over-android-the-future-will-be-chrome-223630
Apple's share of the global tablet market plummeted from 47.2% last year to 28.3% this year and Windows' share of the tablet market also dropped from 7.4% last year to 6.4% this year. Android's tablet market share went from 51.4% last year to 67% this year:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/android-wins-q2-tablet-battle-against-apple-and-microsoft-223715
Samsung scored the highest for US smartphone customer satisfaction, with the Galaxy S3 and Note 2 both getting 84 out of 100 while the iPhone 5 and 4S each scored 82. It is interesting that the iPhone 5 beat the Galaxy S3 for customer satisfaction in *South Korea*, Samsung's home country, while Samsung won in the US, Apple's home country. The new BlackBerry smartphones were not included in the survey, but the Curve and Bold scored 67 and 64, respectively:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-beats-iphone-5-customer-satisfaction-study/2013-07-31
Leap was desperate to sell itself, but even though AT&T was the only bidder Leap got AT&T to increase their offer by 58% during negotiations:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/att-was-only-bidder-leap-upped-price-58-negotiations/2013-07-31
Microsoft Office is now available for both iPhones and certain Android smartphones...but it is NOT available for the iPad or Android tablets:
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/31/microsoft-office-mobile-for-android-now-available/
You can figure out what this article is about from the headline: "Microsoft Office for Android is pathetically bad, too:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/microsoft-office-android-pathetically-bad-too-223816
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/07/us-student-loans-are-more-than-chinas.html
Starbucks is switching from AT&T to Google for its free WiFi, getting about a 10x increase in bandwidth for their customers (100x speed improvement in cities with Google Fiber):
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/starbucks-ditches-att-googles-free-wi-fi/2013-07-31
Interesting article about how the future of mobile devices for Google is Chrome, not Android:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/move-over-android-the-future-will-be-chrome-223630
Apple's share of the global tablet market plummeted from 47.2% last year to 28.3% this year and Windows' share of the tablet market also dropped from 7.4% last year to 6.4% this year. Android's tablet market share went from 51.4% last year to 67% this year:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/android-wins-q2-tablet-battle-against-apple-and-microsoft-223715
Samsung scored the highest for US smartphone customer satisfaction, with the Galaxy S3 and Note 2 both getting 84 out of 100 while the iPhone 5 and 4S each scored 82. It is interesting that the iPhone 5 beat the Galaxy S3 for customer satisfaction in *South Korea*, Samsung's home country, while Samsung won in the US, Apple's home country. The new BlackBerry smartphones were not included in the survey, but the Curve and Bold scored 67 and 64, respectively:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-beats-iphone-5-customer-satisfaction-study/2013-07-31
Leap was desperate to sell itself, but even though AT&T was the only bidder Leap got AT&T to increase their offer by 58% during negotiations:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/att-was-only-bidder-leap-upped-price-58-negotiations/2013-07-31
Microsoft Office is now available for both iPhones and certain Android smartphones...but it is NOT available for the iPad or Android tablets:
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/31/microsoft-office-mobile-for-android-now-available/
You can figure out what this article is about from the headline: "Microsoft Office for Android is pathetically bad, too:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/microsoft-office-android-pathetically-bad-too-223816