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[telecom] Simple Tools Help Owners Sift Data for Eager Customers
Simple Tools Help Owners Sift Data for Eager Customers By JULIE WEED December 12, 2012 Velvet Palate sells artisanal wines that are made in small quantities around the world and typically not stocked...
 
[telecom] To Extend a Device's Battery Life, Get to Know It Better
To Extend a Device's Battery Life, Get to Know It Better By KIT EATON December 12, 2012 As you jet off on a winter vacation or a holiday season trip to see family, chances are you'll face a...
 
[telecom] Keeping Loved Ones on the Grid
Keeping Loved Ones on the Grid By FARHAD MANJOO October 22, 2012 THEY say if you love something, set it free. Good advice, but you still might want to keep your eye on it. So the other day, I slipped...
 
[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...
 
[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...
 
[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...
 
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...
 
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...
 
[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
 
[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...
 
[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...
 
[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...
 
[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,...