AT&T Kills Unlimited Data Plans
The $29.95 iPhone (and other AT&T smartphone) unlimited data plan is being replaced by two cheaper plans with data limits.
The $15 plan will get you 200 megabytes of data, which AT&T claims is enough to “send/receive 1,000 emails (no attachments), plus send/receive 150 emails with attachments, plus view 400 Web pages, plus post 50 photos on social media sites, plus watch 20 minutes of streaming video”. That sounds optimistic to me, but this plan in particular will be a good option for parents who have kids clamoring for an iPhone. And for many users, free WiFi isn’t usually far away.
The new $25 plan will get you 2 gigabytes, which is far more data than most iPhone users currently use – but power users may find themselves bumping up against the limit.
AT&T says you can keep your current unlimited plan, or you can switch to one of the new cheaper plans without extending your contract.
Permalink | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Weekend Movie Watching
Thanks to Netflix Watch Instantly, my holiday weekend was a blur of 1980’s nostalgia (with a brief side-trip to 1992). I’d recommend all of these, with the possible exception of Chevy Chase’s ‘Modern Problems’ – go watch Vacation or Fletch instead.
WarGames
1983 – After cracking the security of an Air Force supercomputer, young hacker David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) moves his piece in a seemingly innocent video game and accidentally tells the computer to start preparing a preemptive nuclear strike.
Housesitter
1992 – After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis (Steve Martin) proposes marriage to his girlfriend (Dana Delany), only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress (Goldie Hawn), never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as his wife
Modern Problems
1981 – A jealous air traffic controller (Chevy Chase) is imbued with some wacky telekinetic powers after a collision with a nuclear-waste truck. This one didn’t age so well.
Feds
1988 – Gritty ex-Marine Ellie De Witt (Rebecca De Mornay) and cerebral Janis Zuckerman (Mary Gross) set out to become hard-nosed FBI agents in this satiric comedy (also starring Ken Marshall and Fred Dalton Thompson).
Wise Guys
1986 – When petty crooks Harry Valentini (Danny DeVito) and Moe Dickstein (Joe Piscopo) “borrow” a large sum of cash from a Mafia boss (Dan Hedaya), they head to the track to multiply their stolen gains. But when their bets go belly-up, they’re at the mercy of hit men hired to make them pay.
Armed and Dangerous
1986 – A slapstick comedy about two down-and-out men, ex-cop Frank Dooley (John Candy) and disbarred lawyer Norman Kane (Eugene Levy), who try their bungling hands at private security. Co-starring the adorable Meg Ryan.
Innerspace
1987 – A hell-raising Navy test pilot (Dennis Quaid) is miniaturized for a top-secret exploratory journey inside a laboratory rabbit — but is instead injected into the body of a high-strung nebbish (Martin Short) who works as a supermarket clerk. Also Co-starring the still-adorable Meg Ryan.
Waka Waka Waka
According to a study by RescueTime, the playable Pac-Man logo on Google Friday cost the economy a total of 4,819,352 man-hours and a staggering $120,483,800 in lost productivity. Those numbers sound as meaningless as most such statistics, but the logo was definitely a great marketing idea on Google’s part. Here’s a non-googlized version of the classic game for even more wasted time:
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