What's a Palm or PocketPC but a $300 data bucket for carrying away a copy of the PC's calendar and address book?
From Verizon's end, the shift toward a shared data plan could potentially simplify their data tracking and billing process for family and business plans: instead of having to track each individual user's data usage against their own monthly allotment and generate a bill, Verizon would be able to track each customer's usage against a single data bucket.
It's a tiny device that acts as a fast, portable data bucket for transferring files between computers (home and work, for example).
(For example, there are a number of data "bucket" plans that offer significantly reduced rates in many countries).
Providers putting forth these plans, which let them deem particular data streams exempt from a consumer's data bucket, have found themselves in hot water among proponents of net neutrality.
The change applies to all users on T-Mobile consumer plans, and not just the Simple Starter plan announced last week which promised not to punish users who exceeded their data bucket.
The partnership will allow enterprise customers to opt for deployments of Samsung Knox-capable devices that will let BlackBerry's enterprise server software control and manage their corporate data buckets, and provide a total firewall between personal and private data.
A shared data plan could also help save families some of their hard-earned money: instead forcing everyone to go for a 2GB plan that may be overkill, smartly-sized data buckets could mean that families could pay for a single data plan that better fits their use case.
We then placed these companies in different data "buckets" depending on the size of their pre-Series A rounds, and finally found the percentage of companies in each bin that successfully raised a Series A round.
Documents, in Couchbase, have an intrinsic unique id and are stored in what are called data buckets.
