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[telecom] Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook vs. Amazon
Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook vs. Amazon The Lines Between Software and Hardware Continue to Blur By JESSICA E. LESSIN, GREG BENSINGER, EVELYN M. RUSLI and AMIR EFRATI December 25, 2012 Four big...
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[telecom] Latest Netflix Disruption Highlights Challenges of Cloud Computing
'The Cloud' Challenges Amazon By BRIAN X. CHEN Published: December 26, 2012 For some on Christmas Eve, "White Christmas" was a blackout on Netflix. That's because problems with Amazon's cloud...
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[telecom] New York Subway Gets an App to Track Trains
New York Subway Gets an App to Track Trains MTA's New Subway App Subway Arrival Times Are Now Just an Apple Device Away Subway Time app...
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Anatomy of a typical telephone conversation [telecom]
AbstruseGoose and XKCD are weekly technical and often humorous websites. Today's AbstruseGoose entry is a fascinating diagram of the mechanics and physics of a telephone conversation. The following...
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The End of the Public Phone Network [telecom]
The End of the Public Phone Network More and more businesses and households are trading their traditional switched telephone service for voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, services. That's led to...
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[telecom] Sneaky Apps That Track Cellphones
Editorial Sneaky Apps That Track Cellphones December 23, 2012 A perversion of smartphone technology called "stalking apps" - precise, secretive trackings of the movements of cellphone users - is...
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[telecom] DRM be damned: How to protect your Amazon e-books from being deleted
DRM be damned: How to protect your Amazon e-books from being deleted Amazon recently erased all of one Kindle users' e-books. Ars shows how to stop it. by Cyrus Farivar Oct 25 2012 Ars Technica
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[telecom] SceneTap facial-detection company brings controversial nightclub app to Boston
Privacy a worry as an app scans the bar scene Firm says its technology doesn't identify people By James H. Burnett III | GLOBE STAFF DECEMBER 26, 2012 It's New Year's Eve. You can't decide whether to...
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[telecom] Google Maps for iPhone Returns Better Than Ever
Google Maps for iPhone Returns Better Than Ever Published on December 18, 2012 by Walt Mossberg Google's rich, reliable Maps app is back on the iPhone, and that means iPhone users can stop relying on...
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[telecom] Websites Vary Prices, Deals Based on Users' Information
Websites Vary Prices, Deals Based on Users' Information By JENNIFER VALENTINO-DEVRIES, JEREMY SINGER-VINE and ASHKAN SOLTANI December 24, 2012 It was the same Swingline stapler, on the same website....
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[telecom] Retailers Try to Adapt to Device-Hopping Shoppers
Retailers Try to Adapt to Device-Hopping Shoppers By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and STEPHANIE CLIFFORD December 21, 2012 Ryan O'Neil, a Connecticut government employee, was in the market to buy a digital...
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[telecom] The Learning Curve of Smart Parking
The Learning Curve of Smart Parking By RANDALL STROSS December 22, 2012 PLACE "smart" in front of a noun and you immediately have something that somehow sounds improved. In its current state, however,...
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[telecom] Deciphering the Decline in Spanish Mobile Accounts
Deciphering the Decline in Spanish Mobile Accounts By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN December 23, 2012 BERLIN - It would take the unimaginable - a major power outage, a natural disaster or a sudden, permanent loss...
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Is Paying to Message Strangers a New Texting Business? [telecom]
Is Paying to Message Strangers a New Texting Business? By BRIAN X. CHEN DECEMBER 24, 2012 Cellphone carriers are making less money from text messages thanks to free messaging services offered by...
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[telecom] All the World's a Game, and Business Is a Player
All the World's a Game, and Business Is a Player By NICK WINGFIELD December 23, 2012 Congratulations. Reading the first paragraph of this article has earned you a badge. If this made-up award makes...
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