Re: [CGUYS] Why Not Be Evil?

2010-01-15 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:21 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: Essentially Verizon changed their start page. I wonder how they do (will do?) this on android phones since there are half a dozen browsers out there. Plus on the Android OS written by Google one would think it would be hard. --

Re: [CGUYS] Why Not Be Evil?

2010-01-15 Thread tjpa
On Jan 15, 2010, at 4:20 PM, mike wrote: Well..Android isn't only controlled by google, it's controlled by the open handset alliance. Did they get paid $500M too? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules,

Re: [CGUYS] Why Not Be Evil?

2010-01-14 Thread Roger D. Parish
At 9:08 PM -0500 1/13/10, t.piwowar wrote: Verizon¹s New Motto: Why Not Be Evil? Pogue¹s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com Just in case you were starting to feel a little warmth toward Verizon after a couple days of astonishment over the way it responded to the Federal Communications Commission. . .

Re: [CGUYS] Why Not Be Evil?

2010-01-14 Thread mike
Essentially Verizon changed their start page. I wonder how they do (will do?) this on android phones since there are half a dozen browsers out there. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Roger D. Parish rogerd.par...@gmail.comwrote: At 9:08 PM -0500 1/13/10, t.piwowar wrote: Verizonąs New

[CGUYS] Why Not Be Evil?

2010-01-13 Thread t.piwowar
Verizon’s New Motto: Why Not Be Evil? Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com Just in case you were starting to feel a little warmth toward Verizon after a couple days of astonishment over the way it responded to the Federal Communications Commission. . . Owners of the BlackBerry Storm 2 and

Re: [CGUYS] Why Not Be Evil?

2010-01-13 Thread mike
According to the source, MS beat Google just barely in trying to make the same deal. As Pogue says...just one more reason to hate Verizon. On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:08 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: Verizon’s New Motto: Why Not Be Evil? Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com Just in case you

Re: [CGUYS] Why Not Be Evil?

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 06:08 PM 1/13/2010, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: Owners of the BlackBerry Storm 2 and other Verizon smartphones woke up one day last week to find that they could no longer specify a preferred search services in the Search box on the BlackBerry's browser. It's Microsoft Bing or nothing.

Re: [CGUYS] Why Not Be Evil?

2010-01-13 Thread mike
Verizon has a history of this, one of the reasons I didn't go with them. One of my conversations with Verizon store rep a few months back: 'Hang on...I buy this phone with a built in GPS chip but I can't turn that chip on unless I pay you an extra fee every month *after* already buying the