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Finland Searches for Non-Nokia Growth

Bloomberg | July 14, 2011 | Kati Pohjanpalo, Diana ben-Aaron Finland, one of six AAA rated euro countries, may face a similar fate to junk-graded Portugal in the next decade unless it finds new growth industries soon, said Timo Tyrvaeinen, chief economist at Helsinki-based Aktia...

Spotify music service launches in the U.S.

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. As...

Job posts suggest iPhone 5 release in mid-August

August 16 is the date everyone is watching after job postings placed on the United Kingdom jobs site Reed made strong hints that Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) launch of the iPhone 5 will occur on that date. There are numerous posts in several regions of...

Yelp still toying with IPO, but hasn't started the process claims CEO

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said his firm would likely go public over the next year or so but had not yet started the process, as it continues to grow its mobile following. “We haven’t started the process, we haven’t chosen bankers, it’s something we’re going...

Yelp still toying with IPO, but hasn’t started the process claims CEO

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said his firm would likely go public over the next year or so but had not yet started the process, as it continues to grow its mobile following. “We haven’t started the process, we haven’t chosen bankers, it’s something we’re going...

Sony claims it’s not proprietary as it pushes forward with Android

Despite being hacked and having to pull its network down for around six weeks, affecting 77 million customers, Sony says it was “pleasantly surprised” by the results of the experience, claiming all its clients came back and that network performance was better than ever. “We...

Sony claims it's not proprietary as it pushes forward with Android

Despite being hacked and having to pull its network down for around six weeks, affecting 77 million customers, Sony says it was “pleasantly surprised” by the results of the experience, claiming all its clients came back and that network performance was better than ever. “We...

Blue Beacon Truck Wash Selects EarthLink Business to Implement Nationwide MPLS Network

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...

Hands On With the Cisco Cius Tablet By Melissa J. Perenson, PCWorld

PCWorld | July 12, 2011 | Melissa Perenson Toss all preconceptions of the Cisco Cius out the door. This is not just another Android tablet. Read the full article here via PCWorld

Smart Grids Face Health Backlash

eWEEK Europe | July 13, 2011 | Peter Judge Campaigners against smart grids say the radio networks they use will cause cancer. Read the full article here via eWEEK Europe

PayPal Intros Phone-to-Phone “Bump” Payments

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. Read the full article here via PCWorld

PayPal Intros Phone-to-Phone "Bump" Payments

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. Read the full article here via PCWorld

Savvis Stockholders Approve Merger with CenturyLink

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...

Nationals sue Maryland wireless network installer

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. Read the full article here via the Washington Business Journal...

EBay’s PayPal Unveils Mobile-to-Mobile Payment System With NFC Technology

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. Read the full article here...

Cracking the mobile health consumer market

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. Read the full article here via Mobi Health News

IBM Sees Large Market for Wireless Health-Monitoring Devices

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. Read the full story here via eWEEK

Cisco shipping special Wi-Fi gear for arenas

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. Read the full article here...

HTC Falls for Second Day in Taipei After Apple Patent Case

Bloomberg-Businessweek | July 13, 2011 | Weiyi Lim HTC Corp. shares fell for a second day after Asia’s second-largest maker of smartphones was accused of infringing Apple Inc. patents in a case that may halt U.S. imports of the Taiwanese company’s phones and...

Samsung, HTC, Apple to show Q2 cellphone gains

Reuters | July 13, 2011 | Tarmo Virki, Miyoung Kim Samsung Electronics and HTC are predicted to be the big winners in the global cellphone market in the second quarter, benefiting from booming demand for their smartphones running Google's software. Read the full...

AT&T rolls out Facebook integrated phone

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 19 most hated U.S. companies include several telecoms

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...

Globacom to launch Next Generation Charging in Nigeria

Ericsson | July 13, 2011 | Press Release Globacom, Africa's fastest growing telecommunications company, has announced plans to replace its legacy charging platform with Ericsson’s (NASDAQ: ERIC) market-leading Charging System. This will allow Globacom to have flexible pricing and discounting plans, and offer rich features to...

Meffy award to Ericsson and Velti

Ericsson | July 13, 2011 | Press Release Reflecting the evolving nature of the industry, the eighth annual award from the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the global community for mobile content and commerce, honored companies with leading innovations for customer contact and interaction. Ericsson and Velti...