Turning the Homeless Into 4G Hotspots at SXSW
It sounds like a headline from The Onion, but it’s true: A project called “Homeless Hotspots” is turning homeless Austin residents into mobile wireless hotspots outside the South by Southwest convention center. It’s part marketing stunt, part genuine charitable initiative — and it’s generating lots of double-takes and chatter from those who pass by. “I’m […]
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; […]
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 […]
Feds to automakers: Block drivers’ tweets, texts, surfing
Several states around the U.S. have enacted laws limiting what people can do while driving, but for the first time, the federal government is proposing guidelines all drivers would need to live by. The Department of Transportation yesterday announced a set of auto-technology guidelines, issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), that would […]
Apple supplier Foxconn hit by hackers
Apple supplier Foxconn now has another crisis on its hands. A workforce of hackers known as Swagg safety is taking credit score for a breach of Foxconn community safety, ensuing within the theft of usernames, passwords, and different non-public data. In a sequence of Twitter posts the day past, the crowd boasted that it publicly […]
Yahoo looks for ways to shed Japanese namesake
Yahoo is currently in discussions with Yahoo Japan to sell off its share in the Asian company. Speaking to reporters yesterday, Yahoo Japan Chief Financial Officer Akira Kajikawa said that Yahoo is trying to “finalize the mechanism [for selling its stake] and we are cooperating with them,” according to The Wall Street Journal, which was […]
Google Sales, Profit Miss Estimates as Ad Prices Decline
Google Inc., owner of the arena’s most well liked web search engine, stated fourth-quarter revenue and profit that overlooked analysts’ estimates, as weaker eu call for and a shift to mobile advertising crimped enlargement. sales except income handed on to partner websites rose to $eight.thirteen billion, Google stated on its web page. That compared with […]
IBM Forecast Tops Estimates After Earnings Rise on Software
International Business Machines Corp., the world’s biggest computer-services provider, forecast 2012 earnings exceeding analysts’ estimates after fourth-quarter profit rose 4.4 percent because of rising software demand. Earnings, excluding some pieces, will building up to no less than $1four.eighty five a proportion this year, Armonk, ny-based IBM mentioned as of late. Analysts projected $14.81, the common […]
Future data center expansion will be happening in developing markets.
Future data center expansion will be happening in developing markets like China, Brazil and Argentina, but such locations may not meet the requirements of data centers today and the requirements that will be necessary in the future. In fact, these five regions may not be the most obvious places to build a data center, but […]