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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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.
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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...
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...
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...