Cto John Donovan, left, sees digital water balloons as a fun primer on handset-to-handset apps—and a lure for wayward subscribers. | Photographs by Darren Braun
As leader of Donovan’s tech council, Sanjay Macwan is helping revamp At&T from a phone company to a technology company.
Does losing its iPhone monopoly spell doom for Ma Bell? Not so far.
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When Rory Donovan went to college last fall, his father, At&T chief technology officer John Donovan, wanted to check up on him. Sure enough, there was an app for that. Donovan and his network even helped popularize it. FamilyMap is a tracking service on Donovan's smartphone that shows the real-time locations of everyone on his family plan. Now, if Rory is out late at a party, Donovan can call him up. "I say, 'What are you doing?' He usually says he's going home," Donovan says,...
As leader of Donovan’s tech council, Sanjay Macwan is helping revamp At&T from a phone company to a technology company.
Does losing its iPhone monopoly spell doom for Ma Bell? Not so far.
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When Rory Donovan went to college last fall, his father, At&T chief technology officer John Donovan, wanted to check up on him. Sure enough, there was an app for that. Donovan and his network even helped popularize it. FamilyMap is a tracking service on Donovan's smartphone that shows the real-time locations of everyone on his family plan. Now, if Rory is out late at a party, Donovan can call him up. "I say, 'What are you doing?' He usually says he's going home," Donovan says,...
- 5/19/2011
- by Ben Paynter
- Fast Company
At&T has come under an extraordinary amount of pressure from its subscribers and the media over its allegedly poor network performance, mainly due to all those millions of iPhones. But apparently Apple has tweaked the phone to help.
The information comes once again from the possibly deliberately leaky Apple news-pal, the Wall Street Journal. This time there's no doubting it though, as the person in question is At&T's Cto John Donovan, revealing how At&T tech experts spent time at Apple HQ delivering Apple's hardware and software folks a "crash course" in proper wireless networking techniques. This makes sense: Unlike most of its smartphone competitors, Apple has never built a phone before, and all its expertise is new and based mostly on its plans and understanding of the business--at&T is, obviously, an expert on the network side of things.
At&T's folks collaborated with Apple to actually...
The information comes once again from the possibly deliberately leaky Apple news-pal, the Wall Street Journal. This time there's no doubting it though, as the person in question is At&T's Cto John Donovan, revealing how At&T tech experts spent time at Apple HQ delivering Apple's hardware and software folks a "crash course" in proper wireless networking techniques. This makes sense: Unlike most of its smartphone competitors, Apple has never built a phone before, and all its expertise is new and based mostly on its plans and understanding of the business--at&T is, obviously, an expert on the network side of things.
At&T's folks collaborated with Apple to actually...
- 3/31/2010
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
Have a question about gay male entertainment? Contact me here (and be sure and include your city and state and/or country!)
Q: Do you have any guilty pleasures when it comes to gay movies? I like the good ones (to me anyway) like Ciao and Guys and Balls. But there are some I like where the dialogue is terrible and the acting is very questionable: Angora Ranch and An Angel Named Billy. So do you have any you are brave enough to admit to liking? — Ed, London, Ontario, Canada
A: Do I have any guilty pleasures?!
First, yes, there are a few micro-budgeted gay films where the acting and production values are questionable, but that are still worth watching. I’m willing to forgive a lot if I get some sense that the actors and producers believe in what they’re doing, if they created an unintentional comedy, or if there's full-frontal male nudity.
Q: Do you have any guilty pleasures when it comes to gay movies? I like the good ones (to me anyway) like Ciao and Guys and Balls. But there are some I like where the dialogue is terrible and the acting is very questionable: Angora Ranch and An Angel Named Billy. So do you have any you are brave enough to admit to liking? — Ed, London, Ontario, Canada
A: Do I have any guilty pleasures?!
First, yes, there are a few micro-budgeted gay films where the acting and production values are questionable, but that are still worth watching. I’m willing to forgive a lot if I get some sense that the actors and producers believe in what they’re doing, if they created an unintentional comedy, or if there's full-frontal male nudity.
- 3/11/2010
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
As the legal wrangling in Gandolfini v. HBO intensified last week, Brad Grey was working overtime trying to bridge the divide between the two camps while HBO was forced to switch trial lawyers because of a conflict of interest concern that arose for attorney Bert Fields. Sources said that Grey, whose Brad Grey Television banner produces The Sopranos with HBO, held discussions with Gandolfini's camp in an effort to bridge the financial gap between the actor and HBO on a fifth-season contract. Sources said the two sides talked last week, with Grey serving as the intermediary, but HBO is adamant that no formal negotiations will take place while Gandolfini's breach-of-contract lawsuit is pending. Grey declined comment Friday, as did reps for HBO and Gandolfini. Meanwhile, HBO has tapped John Donovan of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom to step in for Fields, who last Tuesday filed HBO's $100 million countersuit to the breach of contract claim Gandolfini filed March 6 in Los Angeles Superior Court.
- 3/17/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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