Sling Broadband Postpones Cooperative Venture with LightSquared
Sling Broadband has announced a postponement of a planned cooperative venture with the technology company LightSquared after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) halted licensing for LightSquared’s innovative satellite-enhanced broadband network due to possible broadcast spectrum interference with GPS devices. In 2005, after extensive discussions with the GPS Council, the company that became LightSquared obtained […]
As web booms, so does demand for data centers
Almost overnight, Pinterest is racking up billions of page views. Instagram is touching the 27-million-member mark. Zynga wants to build its own platform. Everywhere you look, you see the web economy booming and growing like never before. And that boom is spurring demand for data centers like never before. A new survey by Campos Research […]
Apple unveils its new, sharper iPad3
Apple said the new iPad, which will go on sale March 16, will have a screen with higher resolution than conventional high-definition televisions. Apple updated the iPad on Wednesday with a high-definition screen, faster wireless connection and several other refinements. As recent history has shown, though, even those relatively modest changes could be enough for […]
AT&T’s New Scheme To Double Charge For Data: Call It A 1-800 Number For Internet Content
Some of you youngsters may not remember what really kicked off the big “net neutrality” fight over the past few years. It was back in 2005, when then AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre suggested that internet companies should pay a second time to reach users. This was particularly nefarious. What Whitacre was suggesting was actually that […]
Health insurance refunds in Florida in the works
Hundreds of thousands of Floridians could be in line for perhaps $100 million of health insurance rebates in August, under a federal review process that began Thursday. The federal health care overhaul passed by Congress in 2010 forces insurers to pay rebates starting this year if they spend more than a certain amount of their […]
Miami Valley crime lab losing business to state
Three area police departments have dropped contracts with the Miami Valley Regional Crime Laboratory, and there is concern others will follow, threatening the viability of a lab that currently provides evidence analysis for 100 jurisdictions in southwest Ohio. The departures provide the first evidence that the downtown Dayton lab, which employs 26 other folks, is […]
Indicted Fort Lauderdale brothers facing new federal fraud charges
Already charged with running one of Florida’s biggest investment scams, Fort Lauderdale brothers Joel Steinger and Steven Steiner were arrested again Wednesday in connection with a new fraud conspiracy. A federal prosecutor known as Steinger a “serial” prison for allegedly conspiring along with his brother to create dummy companies that bilked $three million from health […]
Under the Sea: In the Age of Wireless, Can’t We Do Better than Intercontinental Fiber Optic Cables?
On Saturday, a ship waiting to enter the Kenyan port city of Mombasa wandered into a restricted area and dropped its anchor, inadvertently severing a major undersea Internet and phone link to East Africa. This kind of thing occurs every so often, but Saturday’s incident represents a selected stroke of bad timing. The cable severed […]
How South Florida’s top 1 percent live
The top 1 percent have a household income north of $400,000 a year — $401,600 in Broward County, $456,206 in Palm Beach County and $413,372 in Miami-Dade, according to a national survey of household incomes by Washington-based Sentier Research. In the membership are some big names like LeBron James, who makes $44 million a year; […]
XP loses ground to Windows 7 but still top OS
Windows XP lost more users to Windows 7 last month, but the decade-old platform continues to hold on as the most popular operating system Looking at OS stats for February, NetApplications found that XP’s percentage of the marketplace dipped to forty five percent from 47 p.c in January. on the related time, windows 7 grabbed […]
Terri Dial, former Citigroup exec, died in Miami
Terri Dial, whose work on the reshaping of Citigroup Inc. in 2008 culminated a three-decade banking career that made her a much-watched woman in business, has died. She was 62. She died Tuesday in a hospice in Miami, said a friend and family spokeswoman. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer. In 27 years at […]
Dell’s New Enterprise Solutions All About End-to-End Speed and Simplicity
Dell used to be a company with a clever sales strategy that sold PCs, but it has increasingly focused on the IT/data center market. Dell has proved that as of late with a slew of acquisitions (a dozen just in the last year or so) and a substantial investment in R&D, and today it announced […]
Can Microsoft make Windows 8 the mobile OS?
It may seem odd that Microsoft executives are traveling all the way to Barcelona, Spain, to debut the beta version of the upcoming Windows 8 operating system at a mobile device show. But Microsoft, which has launched drugs and mobile phones lengthy prior to competitors simplest to see others dominate the ones businesses, is hoping […]
The Curious Case of Big Data
The advent of technologies that instantly analyze natural human language, along with the massive amounts and varieties of big data flowing from sensors, mobile devices, and the Web, are helping today’s data pioneers find answers as well as new questions to ask. Big-data technologies and new roles like the data scientist will enable companies and […]
We must ‘double down’ on tablets, win the market – Android chief
Android is far behind Apple’s iPad in total units sold, but Andy Rubin says 2012 could be the year where that changes. Speaking today at cellular global Congress in Barcleona, Google’s Android leader said that customers have activated 12 million Android-primarily based tablets to this point. in keeping with The Verge, which first reported on […]
Your Internet privacy is in Congress’s hands now
I had a long talk with the president last week (yes, that president) about how my readers were clamoring for something like an Internet privacy bill of rights so that they could tell those nosy online advertising companies to piss off. What do you know? Thursday morning, the White House called on Congress and the […]
Nokia is world’s largest Windows Phone 7 vendor
Nokia took 33 percent of the Windows Phone 7 market last quarter, leading all others, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. Microsoft’s partnership with Nokia has already yielded some reassuring results for the Finland-based handset maker. Research company technique Analytics introduced today that fourth-quarter shipments of windows telephone 7-primarily based devices have been up 36 […]
Adobe to Linux users: Get Chrome or forget Flash
Adobe today said that it would stop offering direct downloads of Flash Player for Linux, telling users to move to Google’s Chrome browser, which bundles Flash with its updates. Today’s demotion of Flash participant on Linux to Chrome-simplest was once the second time in the last three months that Adobe has withdrawn some or all […]
Korea ISP wants streaming services to pay up
Data-heavy services like YouTube are apparently costing a South Korean Internet Service Provider serious money, and the ISP doesn’t want to take it any longer. Speaking to Reuters in an interview published last night, Kim Taehwan, vice president of KT, Korea’s largest ISP, said that his company is tired of “free riding” Internet streaming services […]
Microsoft targets Motorola Mobility, claims patent abuse
The software giant says Motorola is attempting to use essential patents “to kill video on the Web.” It also didn’t miss the opportunity to take a swipe at Google. Microsoft is the latest tech giant to take aim at Motorola Mobility–and thus, by virtue of its $12.5 billion acquisition, Google–in a FRAND (fair, reasonable, and […]