After two long years of negotiations with record companies, Spotify, a Swedish streaming music service, is finally launching today in the U.S. after hammering out deals with the big four labels of Universal, Sony, EMI and Warner Music to stream around 15 million tracks.
EarthLink | July 13, 2011 | Press Release
ATLANTA, GA — July 13, 2011 — EarthLink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK), a leading IP infrastructure and services company, today announced that Blue Beacon International, Inc., a leading truck wash company with locations throughout the...
PCWorld | July 12, 2011 | Melissa Perenson
Toss all preconceptions of the Cisco Cius out the door. This is not just another Android tablet.
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eWEEK Europe | July 13, 2011 | Peter Judge
Campaigners against smart grids say the radio networks they use will cause cancer.
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PCWorld | July 13, 2011 | Mark Sullivan
PayPal this morning announced a new mobile phone widget that will let smartphone users tap their phones together to exchange money.
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PCWorld | July 13, 2011 | Mark Sullivan
PayPal this morning announced a new mobile phone widget that will let smartphone users tap their phones together to exchange money.
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Savvis | July 13, 2011 | Press Release
ST. LOUIS and MONROE, La., July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Savvis, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVVS), a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, today announced that Savvis stockholders have voted to approve...
Washington Business Journal | July 8, 2011| Ben Fischer
The Washington Nationals say the Maryland company that installed the wireless network at Nationals Park owes the team nearly $500,000 from a failed advertising contract.
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Bloomberg | July 13, 2011 | Douglas Macmillan
EBay Inc. (EBAY)’s PayPal unit unveiled a service that will let users make payments by tapping their mobile devices together, joining rivals in the market for wireless transactions using near field communication technology.
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Mobi Health News | July 13, 2011 | Neil Versel
The eighth annual Healthcare Unbound conference revealed a tension in the m-health marketplace between cutting-edge technology and ease of use.
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eWEEK | June 29, 2011 | Brian Horowitz
Consumers who are neither fitness freaks nor chronically ill are willing to pay for health-monitoring gadgets, according to a new IBM study.
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Computerworld | July 6, 2011 | Matt Hamblen
Cisco has announced a new Wi-Fi access point and stadium antenna that covers a smaller area for use in arenas and large venues to help improve user access and wireless speeds.
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The first model of smartphone to carry a dedicated Facebook button on the keypad is launching this week from AT&T Mobility (T), which is taking pre-orders for the Android Honeycomb-powered HTC Status and marketing the device as the inaugural phone to be integrated with...
The Atlantic compiled and released the 19 most hated companies in America, gleaning information from the American Customer Satisfaction Index, which rates companies based on thousands of surveys. The latest index showed that the unfavorable amongst American firms include large banks, airlines, power concerns...
Reuters | July 11, 2011 | Clare Jim
Shares in the world's No.5 handset maker, HTC Corp, tumbled more than 4 percent on Tuesday, after Apple Inc sued the company in a fresh complaint with a U.S. trade panel.
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Reuters | July 11, 2011 | Clare Jim
Shares in the world's No.5 handset maker, HTC Corp, tumbled more than 4 percent on Tuesday, after Apple Inc sued the company in a fresh complaint with a U.S. trade panel.
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Northwestern University selected Motorola Solutions (MSI) to deploy a 900 MHz ASTRO 25 Project 25 voice and integrated data communication solution. The new P25 system replaces a 14-year-old analog trunking system and will provide a standards-based IP system that enables interoperability and greater efficiency...
The Austin metropolitan area added 14,100 jobs in the past year ending in May, giving the region the fourth best performing among the 50 largest U.S. metros at 1.8% change in growth, according to information from the Texas Workforce Commission and the U.S. Bureau...
When the space shuttle Atlantis blasted off earlier today for the final mission of its kind in space, it was also carrying a first of its kind for m-health. General Electric Co. (GE) Healthcare's Vivid q Cardiovascular Ultrasound is on board and NASA plans...
Austin is known as the home of the South-by-Southwest (SXSW) festival, which has become one the premier tech culture events in the world. When you consider that two of the three named components of the festival are “Film” and “Interactive,” then you’d expect to...
With more than half of 2011 behind us, Chetan Sharma Consulting is projecting the mobile industry to drive $1.3 trillion in activity by year's end. Mobile data is expected to comprise 24% of that market with revenues cresting above $300 billion worldwide for the...
eBay Inc. (EBAY) has reached a deal to acquire Zong for $240 million in cash. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company provides mobile payments through carrier billing channels and has deals with more than 250 operators around the world.eBay plans to combine bring Zong’s...
Raytheon Co. (RTN) will build out a public-safety LTE contract awarded under the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, winning an $8.7 million contract to provide Adams County, Colo., with a public-safety network at 700 MHz. The 15-site systems will connect more than 1,500 first responders...
Enterprise Fleet Management is working with Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) to bring the carrier’s wireless connectivity and new features to its Mobile Resource Manager (MRM). The Web-based machine-to-machine offering provides its mid-size business customers with real-time visibility into the whereabouts of their fleet...
