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6 Twitter statistics that you may not know

Posted May 14, 2013 - 6:00 am

Among the interesting Twitter tidbits: New York City users are the most retweeted.
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Google kills off SMS Search: What you can't do now that it's gone

Posted May 13, 2013 - 4:30 pm

Why should anyone mourn the loss of a service that most people didn't know existed? I would offer a few reasons.
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Feds looking to make health data more user-friendly to tech developers

Posted May 13, 2013 - 3:37 pm

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants health tech developers in Silicon Valley to make greater use of its data to help make advances in the field and aid entrepreneurs in the region.
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BrandPost: Will Microsoft's anti-iPad strategy work?

Posted May 13, 2013 - 2:08 pm

Refusal to make Office available for iPad reminiscent of old, non-open ways
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BrandPost: BYOD Q&A with Gartner's David Willis

Posted May 13, 2013 - 1:49 pm

Gartner's chief of research for mobility and communications talks about BYOD
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BrandPost: Stadiums, Malls, Hotels: The Ultimate BYOD Environment

Posted May 13, 2013 - 1:47 pm

Is your public network ready for BYOD customers?
No Chrome-Android merger, at least in the next year or two

Posted May 13, 2013 - 1:45 pm

Android's new boss hinted of an eventual merger of Chrome and Android but said the two will remain separate "for the short term," in an interview posted prior to Google I/O's opening keynote on Wednesday.
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BrandPost: IT Needs to Leverage Cloud, Not Oppose it

Posted May 13, 2013 - 1:44 pm

Flexibility and capacity of cloud should be used to enterprise advantage
New York calls on phone makers to help deter theft

Posted May 13, 2013 - 1:42 pm

The New York State attorney general has sent letters to the chief executives of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Samsung asking them for help in combating cellphone theft and hinting he may pursue legal action if they don't cooperate.
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BrandPost: More Mobile Collaboration Apps Needed

Posted May 13, 2013 - 1:39 pm

Increase in Yammer sales shows need for more enterprise collaboration apps
Wi-Fi in the sky may get a speed boost thanks to the FCC

Posted May 13, 2013 - 1:26 pm

The FCC wants to sell more spectrum to in-flight Wi-Fi services, to make flying the friendly skies slightly less awful.
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ESPN's rumored offer to subsidize mobile data is a slippery, treacherous slope

Posted May 13, 2013 - 1:25 pm

ESPN's reported offer to subsidize mobile data costs for their videos sounds has troubling net neutrality implications.
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Nexus 4 may be nearing the end of its short, tough life

Posted May 13, 2013 - 1:15 pm

Two mobile phone retailers in the U.K. stoked speculation this week that the Nexus 4 Android handset produced for Google by LG Electronics may be in its waning days.
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Harmon.ie aims to close the mobile gap in Office 365

Posted May 13, 2013 - 11:49 am

A new mobile application from Harmon.ie promises to improve the way people use Microsoft Office 365 from iOS, BlackBerry and Android tablets and phones.
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Samsung takes first 5G steps with advanced antenna

Posted May 13, 2013 - 10:37 am

Samsung Electronics plans to use advanced antennas to boost the bandwidth in mobile networks by what it said was "several tens of Gbps per base station", but the improved bandwidth won't be commercially available until 2020.
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Japan's DoCoMo to use mobile data to monitor traffic jams

Posted May 13, 2013 - 6:25 am

NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile carrier, will use location data from its 61.5 million subscriber devices to build a platform that monitors traffic conditions across the country.
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Lifelogging gets real

Posted May 11, 2013 - 7:12 am

As privacy-invading technologies and location-aware applications become commonplace and accepted (and they will), and more products like Saga, Memoto and Glass become pervasive, the idea of lifelogging will become more appealing.
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At Google I/O, expect Android, Chrome, and some privacy questions about Glass

Posted May 10, 2013 - 9:34 pm

Best practices guidelines for Glass developers may be discussed at the show, one analyst said.
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Smartphones driving violent crime across U.S.

Posted May 10, 2013 - 5:22 pm

Incidents of cellphone theft have been rising for several years and are fast becoming an epidemic -- a violent epidemic.
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Download free Sid Meier's Ace Patrol app for iOS devices

Posted May 10, 2013 - 3:34 pm

Here's how you can download the Sid Meier's Ace Patrol app free for your iPad, iPhone, iPad mini or iPod Touch.
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Desktop chips zip past 4GHz; next stop 5GHz?

Posted May 10, 2013 - 3:33 pm

Mobility has all but eclipsed speed and anything else as the capability garnering the most attention in desktop processors.
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Download free Say the Same Thing app for iOS devices

Posted May 10, 2013 - 3:30 pm

Here's how you can download the Say the Same Thing app free for your iPad, iPhone, iPad mini or iPod Touch.
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AT&T offers iPhone 5 through pre-paid Aio Wireless

Posted May 10, 2013 - 3:22 pm

AT&T launched a new wireless subsidiary called Aio Wireless on Thursday that offers phones like the iPhone 5 with no annual contract.
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Download free Tiny Troopers 2: Special Ops app for iOS devices

Posted May 10, 2013 - 3:20 pm

Here's how you can download the Tiny Troopers 2: Special Ops app free for your iPad, iPhone, iPad mini or iPod Touch.
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Download free Snoop Dogg's Snoopify Sticker Camera! app for iOS devices

Posted May 10, 2013 - 3:17 pm

Here's how you can download the Snoop Dogg's Snoopify Sticker Camera! app free for your iPad, iPhone, iPad mini or iPod Touch.
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