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Sprint to Cut Off Internet Access to Laptop Users Who Exceed Data Limits
(Reuters) – Telecoms company Sprint Nextel Corp will temporarily deactivate the accounts of laptop broadband users if they consume more than their allotted share of data while roaming, the Wall Street Journal reported. Sprint is changing its data service policies for laptop users with mobile broadband cards or USB modems, Mark Elliott, a company spokesman…
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20 Quick Facts about Netbooks
20 Quick Facts about Netbooks Mini notebook computers or netbooks, first introduced in late 2007, have taken the market by storm: with shipments growing by 71 percent year over year from the in the first quarter of 2010, according to analyst firm Gartner. That compares to a 43 percent growth rate for notebook computers overall…
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Starbucks to Offer Refuge to Those Left Internet-less By ATT, Sprint Data Limits
Even as AT&T and Sprint and maybe others batten down the hatches on unlimited data use by subscribers, Starbucks is opening the doors to free WiFi – a refuge for those left Internet-less by ever stricter carrier data policies. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced that free, one-click WiFi would arrive on July 1 to all…
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Gartner Says Bad IT Habits Move to the Cloud
SAAS applications are becoming a more substantial part of many companies’ IT infrastructure, according to a new research note by Gartner, but a number of companies are taking their “bad practices” from on-premises software into the cloud with them. However, along with that adoption, a number of companies have started engaging in the same “bad…
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Editors Picks Culled by Google News Experiment
Google confirmed the program was one of 50 to 200 experiments the company regular runs on its Websites all over the world. Now Google, which threw its hat into the social media ring with Google Buzz, is toying with human curation on its normally algorithmically-generated Websites. Participating publications are not paying to place their links,…
