Yearly Archives: 2011

South Korea classrooms to go fully digital by 2015

Reuters | July 28, 2011 | Ben Gruber South Korea is pushing forward with a plan to completely digitize its classrooms by 2015. Video via Reuters

Groupon and Foursquare team up on daily deals

Two top social apps are apparently joining forces, with news Groupon and Foursquare are teaming up with a daily deal partnership.Location based social app...

Cell phones don’t increase risk of child cancer say scientists

The European Parliamentary Assembly (EPA) has been making much ado about nothing when it comes to the dangers of cellphones on children, according to...

Google snaps up 1000 IBM patents

Google has snapped up 1000 patents from IBM ranging from those touching on web based querying to design and production of memory and microprocessing...

Microsoft hits back at Google with Gmail man snoop video

There is nothing we like more here in the Valley than a cat fight, and with two tech tigers currently at each other's throats...

Marvel Digital shows off affordable Android tablet – Mercury

Marvel Digital has released a video of its Mercury tablet, an affordable 7-inch device running Android 2.3.1 (Gingerbread).A YouTube video shows the tablet being...

Azumio raises $2.5M for heart rate app

The Palo Alto-based company develops biofeedback apps for smartphones, including its Instant Heart Rate, which lets users monitor their heart rate by holding their...

Stratos Acquires Assets of Blue Ocean Wireless

Stratos continues selling BOW shipboard GSM services under new brand GSM Oceanwide...

Motorola Solutions Venture Capital Leads Series B Investment Round in Canvas

Canvas, which provides a mobile business application service that makes it easy to find, customize and publish business apps for mobile devices, today announced...

Northwestern University Selects Motorola Solutions' New 900 MHz P25 System for More Efficient Communications

First 900 MHz Project 25 (P25) system will help university offer higher level of campus services...

Massive public safety project hits the skids in Los Angeles

A massive public safety communication system in Los Angeles just hit the skids. Three years after the county and numerous independent cities launched the...

Leading Wireless Retailer Simplexity Adopts Corticon to Improve Activation Rates and Increase Profitability

Corticon's "No-Coding" Rules Engine Simplifies and Automates Complex Wireless Purchase Process ...

EarthLink Hires Senior Sales Executives; Promotes Head of Managed Services

EarthLink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK), a leading IP infrastructure and services company, today announced that two senior sales executives have joined the company’s leadership team...

Vringo Announces $2.5 Million Investment Led by Prominent Venture Capital Firms Benchmark Capital and DAG Ventures

Vringo, Inc. (NYSE Amex: VRNG) ("Vringo" or the "Company"), a provider of software platforms for mobile social and video applications, announced today that it...

W-CDMA to generate most revenue through 2015, Dell'Oro says

The LTE equipment market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 81% during the next five years, according to a...

Smartphones bolster NTT DoCoMo's results

The growth of smartphones is indeed an international phenomenon as highlighted by Japan's largest carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. (DCM) reporting a surge in net...

Drug App Comes Free, Ads Included

Epocrates has won over nearly half of the nation's doctors for its free smartphone apps that lets them look up information on drug dosing,...

Wal-Mart’s Rocky Path from Bricks to Clicks

Since Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) first ventured into cyberspace 15 years ago, the Bentonville (Ark.) company has struggled online. ...

Motorola Mobility lowers expectations as it slides to $56M loss

Almost everything is up at Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) except for profits. The company swung to a $56 million loss in the last...

Apple, Zenithink(!) most satisfied with tablet purchases, IHS survey finds

While it's no surprise that Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPad came in first place in a U.S. customer-satisfaction survey from IHS Inc., the...

Fundraise.com to Streamline Giving, Sign Presidential Campaigns

The Boston charity boxing match put on by Haymakers for Hope in June raised $200,000 for Dana Farber Cancer Institute's Jimmy Fund, which finances...

Sprint Nextel’s dilemma

So, now what for Sprint Nextel Corp.? Just after releasing second quarter results that showed improvements in customer metrics at the cost of subsidizing the growing fascination with smartphones, and a spectrum hosting deal that could pay the carrier $9 billion over an 11-year period, the carrier’s stock got hammered by investors.

Worst of the Week: Out of body experience

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...

Worst of the Week: Out of body experience

Buying a mobile device these days can be a traumatic experience, even for those of us who think they have experience. When asked about the phone buying experience I have generally told people to go through a company-owned retail outlet as that way they are dealing most directly with the carrier and those salespeople are most focused on the devices and services sold by that operator.

Marvel Digital shows off affordable Android tablet – Mercury

Marvel Digital has released a video of its Mercury tablet, an affordable 7-inch device running Android 2.3.1 (Gingerbread).
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