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ATT U-verse TV named countrys leading video company
AT&T U-verse TV has been named the leading video service in the country by Frost & Sullivan. Frost & Sullivan has named AT&T U-verse TV the market research companys 2013 Video Company of the Year. Frost selected AT&T U-verse as the leading provider due to excellence in customer value, innovation and growth. The company also won the award in 2009. Growing market share in a ...
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NetApp confirms it will cut 900 jobs worldwide
Data storage company NetApp confirmed in its earnings release Tuesday that it will be eliminating about 900 jobs globally. The company says its a part of a broader process of restructuring and realigning resources. Were still trying to determine whether the cuts will affect NetApps Wichita site, which had been in the process of adding about 400 jobs. A NetApp spokesman says the company is not ...
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New Hope for Better Internet Access in Africa
WASHINGTON -- A non-profit technology company based in Kenya has created a wireless internet router that it says will help people living in places where electricity is spotty and internet service is unreliable. Founded in early 2008, Ushahidi is known primarily for its open-source software applications, but is now launching its first piece of hardware, called the BRCK. One of the BRCK's ...
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Sprints new Clearwire bid could help KC local wireless official says
Curtis Holland Sprint Nextel Corp. raising its bid price for Clearwire Corp. at the last minute on Tuesday bodes well for Kansas City, a former president of the Mokan Wireless Association said. Dish Network Corp.s competing bids for Clearwire Corp. (Nasdaq: CLWR) and Sprint (NYSE: S) have some locals concerned that the wireless carriers Overland Park headquarters could be threatened, Overland ...
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Measuring Social Media ROI Companies Emphasize Voice Metrics
The influential economist Albert O. Hirschman argues that customers can have a disciplining effect on companies and markets through their exit and voice behaviors. Instead of simply "quitting" a product, Hirschman urged customers to voice their complaints so companies could improve and learn. Hirschman would be a happy camper these days because social media puts a megaphone on the ...
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UANI Calls on Facebook to Suspend Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s Account as Iranian Election Approaches
United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) launched its Social Media Campaign, by calling on Facebook, Inc. to suspend the account of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...
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Facebook shotgun photos leads to arrests of two Crazy White Boys deputies say
Detectives on the hunt for two fugitive gangsters earlier this month turned to Facebook for clues. That's where they say they hit the jackpot: Photos of Mario Daniel McDonald and Joseph Wayne Edwards each holding a shotgun. McDonald, 23, and Edwards, 27, are prohibited from possessing firearms because they are convicted felons, the Marion County Sheriff's Office said in a statement ...
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Texas Emerging Technology Fund slated to get $50M
The Texas Emerging Technology Fund is expected to be allocated $50 million for the next biennium. The Texas Emerging Technology Fund is expected to be replenished with $50 million for the next two years, based on a new budget deal, the Austin American Statesman reports. Although this falls below Gov. Rick Perrys request of $69.5 million for the ETF for the next two years, the amount is still a ...
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With Rich Pins Pinterest Begins Working Better With Brands
Pinterest has received its first significant update with how pinned images appear on the website. Called "Rich Pins", these images that are pinned contain a host of more information right from the originating image site, such as product purchase information or ingredient listings for recipes. Pinterest ...
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Newsles secret Names make news and get funding
Newsle co-founders Jonah Varon, left, and Axel Hansen, right, dropped out of Harvard to launch their news discovery startup in the Bay Area. Shown with them is full-stack engineer Chris Pol. Axel Hansen and Jonah Varon are building a startup based on who you know and who you want to know more about. The 22-year-olds landed $1.65 million in funding for Newsle this week from Advance Publications, ...
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110 Tower launches last phase of $15M renovation
The seventh and eighth floor renovation at 110 Tower in Fort Lauderdale marks the end of a $15 million renovation for the building. Demolition of the seventh and eight floors at 110 Tower in downtown Fort Lauderdale has begun, marking the last phase of a $15 million renovation. Once redeveloped, the floors will offer 40,000 square feet of office space with a two-story mezzanine design concept. ...
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Adults and drama turning teens from Facebook to Twitter
There are too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, say teens who are turning to Twitter as a social media destination. A new study published about online behavior said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations. Teens told researchers there were too many adults on Facebook and too much sharing of teenage angst and ...
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San Antonio IT firms YL Operari combine operations
Y&L Consulting has finalized its buy-out of The Operari Group. Y&L Consulting has closed on the companys buy-out of the Operari Group. Now that the acquisition is completed, San Antonio-based Y&L plans on significantly expanding its information technology offerings. This is a good union for all concerned, Operari co-founder and managing partner Shaun Williams says. Operari has spent the last ...
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Teens sharing more on social media moving to Twitter
Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behaviour. It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online ...
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Dish Sprint-SoftBank deal is a step toward China away from national security
Dish Network Corp. played up a Sprint Nextel Corp. suitors ties to China as new plot points unfolded Tuesday in the Sprint-Dish-SoftBank Corp.-Clearwire Corp. drama. A Tuesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed text from an anti-SoftBank-Sprint merger website paid for by Dish (Nasdaq: DISH), NationalSecurityMatters.com. On the site, Dish provides its take on SoftBanks ...
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Microsoft unveils next Xbox games console
Microsoft Corp has given a first look at its new game console, hoping the newly named Xbox One will build on a solid core of gamer fans and become a hub for living room entertainment. The third-generation console, coming eight years after the Xbox 360, was unveiled by games unit chief Don Mattrick at an event at the software company's campus near ...
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Tech leaders on Twitter and politics
The growing influence of Silicon Valley, Austin and New York is starting to reverberate in Washington, upcoming tech leaders said Tuesday.Evan Burfield, co-founder of startup platform 1776, said understanding "the logic of these machines" is a second language in most fields now, at POLITICO’S Emerging Tech Leaders event at Microsoft’s Washington ...
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Maine Man Charged In Death Of Teen He Met On Facebook
BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- Police charged a 20-year-old Maine man with murder Tuesday in the death of a 15-year-old girl who was last seen more than a week ago, when she went to meet someone she met on Facebook. Kyle Dube, of Orono, was charged in the death of Nichole Cable of Glenburn after a body presumed to be that of the girl was found in a wooded area Monday night, Maine State Police Lt. ...
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UPDATE 3-Microsoft unveils Xbox One with Spielberg Activision tie-up
Tue May 21, 2013 3:21pm EDT By Bill Rigby and Malathi Nayak REDMOND, Wash. May 21 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp gave the world a first look at its new Xbox One on Tuesday, announcing that its first gaming console in eight years will come with exclusive video and software content, including a "Halo" series produced by Steven Spielberg. The Xbox One, which will be available later this year ...
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Highest-paid South Florida technology executives -- slideshow
Technology is a booming job market in South Florida and local companies have heaped millions of dollars upon local executives. The Business Journal examined Securities and Exchange Commission filings for the largest information and technology companies based in the region and found some lucrative awards were handed out. Most of the compensation was in the form of stock, as opposed to salary, so ...
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How to deal when social media drives you crazy
Is Social Media Anxiety Disorder, known as SMAD, the newest affliction resulting from our love affair with Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites? Researchers have stopped short of actually classifying SMAD as a disorder, but it's no doubt a problem. Sure, you could quit using your social sites altogether -- but then you'd be, well, bored and lonely. Science may ...
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Twitter builds internal guidelines for handling legal battles over patents
The Verge reports . But Twitter also has an original, internal approach to patent applications. All Twitter’s patents include a contract in which the company agrees to engage in patent litigation only if they are sued first. The contract is meant to deal with the concerns of the engineers whose work is being patented, and who feel the definition of defensive litigation can be ...
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Twitter granted refresh patent vows to use it only defensively
(Credit: Twitter/USPTO) Twitter has won a new patent that it hopes to use as an example to stem the tide of patent lawsuits. Granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today, the patent named ...
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The biggest social-media mistake youre probably making
A common mistake companies make in their social-media campaigns is putting the efforts on an island, all alone, to sink or swim alone. When it comes to using social media for your business, there are a lot of mistakes that most people know to avoid - bad-mouthing a customer, deleting a critical comment or posting risqu pictures on the official company Twitter account, to name a few. But what ...
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The List Top 5 corporate philanthropists large companies
The Puget Sound Business Journal ranks the biggest Washington corporate philanthropists by corporate and foundation giving in the state in 2012. For the top five givers in the large company category (annual revenues of $500 million or more), see the next slides. For the complete list, compiled by Researcher Bonnie Graves, see the Corporate Citizenship supplement to the May 17 print edition of ...
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Stephen Court disaster: any lessons learned?
Over 700 buildings in Calcutta are not compliant with safety regulations with regard to the risk of fire, and the Stephen Court disaster was a tangible example of what can happen when a fire breaks out in an unsafe building. Following that disaster, the local government seems to be taking a harder line on fire safety.
At 2.30pm on the 23 March, 2010, a devastating fire, allegedly caused by an electrical short circuit, ripped through the iconic Stephen Court building in Calcutta, destroying a large part of the 150-year-old office and residential block and killing over 30 people. Read more
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