Retailers report tepid sales for June
Shoppers, worried about jobs and the overall economy, pulled back on spending in June, resulting in tepid sales for many retailers. The results raise concerns about Americans’ ability to spend during the back-to-school season, which is the second-biggest shopping period of the year and starts later this month. As merchants reported their sales early Thursday, […]
H&M opens Friday in Miami Beach
From the neon yellow tank tops to the rainbow colored floor length kaftan and the plaid board shorts, the summer fashions at the new H&M South Beach store look like they were designed for Miami. Warning: Quantities are limited, and the fashion-forward, affordable merchandise is expected to go fast when the H&M pop-up opens to […]
RIM CEO: We’re not abandoning BlackBerry physical keyboards
Research In Motion is not killing off its physical keyboards, according to CEO Thorsten Heins. Heins, who addressed a room full of journalists and bloggers at the company’s BlackBerry World conference here, said he wanted to clear up confusion based on the company’s unveiling of the BlackBerry 10 software. It was widely reported or intimated […]
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 […]
Bacardi Ltd names Edward Shirley as new CEO
Bacardi Limited on Friday named the former vice chairman of Procter & Gamble’s Global Beauty & Grooming division as the new president and chief executive of the global liquor business. Edward Shirley, 55, who retired from P&G last July, will start his job on Monday based at Bacardi headquarters in Bermuda. Shirley replaces Seamus McBride, […]
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 […]
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 […]
ISP launches broadband internet, business voip, dsl, cable and wireless services in Miami Beach
The future of communications has arrived in Miami Beach! In response to enormous demand from area business consumers, Sling Broadband is expanding its high-speed Broadband Internet service into Miami Beach. Sling Broadband is one of the nation’s largest Internet service providers, consistently ranked as one of the top ten networks in North […]
Facebook new data-center Prineville, Oregon: Population, 800 Million
Web giants like Google and Amazon are notoriously secretive about what goes on inside the worldwide network of data centers that serve up their sweeping collection of web services. They call it a security measure, but clearly, they also see these facilities as some sort of competitive advantage their online rivals mustn’t lay eyes on. […]
Smartphones and tablets to drive 350% increase in Wi-Fi hotspots by 2015
The Wireless Broadband Alliance has published a report on the state of the global public Wi-Fi hotspot market compiled by analyst firm Informa. It includes a comprehensive survey of 259 service providers and Wi-Fi vendors. The report reveals that global public Wi-Fi hotspot numbers are set to grow from 1.3 million in 2011, to 5.8 […]