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Better Mobile Broadband Pushed by FCC Chairman
He linked mobile broadband and innovation and promised to work toward increasing the available spectrum for the technology, which he said should be “unleashed.” During the D8 tech conference, Genachowski told WSJ tech reporter Walt Mossberg that deploying 4G wireless networks would help allow the United States to catch up with other industrialized nations that…
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Video to Lead Internet Traffic Growth, Cisco Report Projects
Cisco announced the results of the annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2009-2014, which projected global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold to 767 exabytes (an exabyte equals one quintillion bytes) by 2014. This amount is 100 exabytes higher than the projected level in 2013, or an increase the equivalent of 10 times…
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Vast Majority of Businesses Would Support Personal iPads, Survey Finds
An informal survey by server and desktop virtualization specialist Citrix Systems found an overwhelming majority of businesses would support the adoption of Apple’s iPad, which has moved 2 million units since its debut in April. The preliminary results of the survey were posted by the company’s vice president of community and solutions development Chris Fleck,…
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Apple iPhone, iPad Carrier to End Unlimited Data Plans
NEW YORK, June 2 (Reuters) – AT&T Inc (NYSE:T) plans to stop offering an unlimited pricing plan for new subscribers to its mobile data services, a move that it says will cut prices for as many as 98 percent of its customers. The exclusive U.S. provider for Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone said the new metered…
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HP Enterprise Services Business to Cut 9,000 Jobs
HP (NYSE:HPQ) will cut 9,000 jobs in its HP Enterprise Services Business division, the company has announced, as the result of a data center consolidation to move its infrastructure onto its own Converged Infrastructure product lines. The workforce reduction, which comes two years after HP announced its acquisition of IT services firm EDS, will consolidate…
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Can Microsoft Windows 7 Edge out Android in Battle to Run iPad Killers?
Plans for “iPad killers” abound, and the question for each manufacturer is: Android or Windows 7? We know Windows 7 is gaining serious traction in the PC market and reviews are great. But, when it comes to the tablet, how will it fare? If recent announcements are any indication, Microsoft is winning the tablet OS…
