The economy may be limping along, but one sector of the tech industry is booming despite the sluggish markets and stagnating growth: wireless. A new report demonstrates just how much.
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Don’t think you’re paying nearly enough to enjoy the glorious pleasures of airline travel these days? Well, many U.S. airlines are offering you the opportunity to pay even more — if you want to connect to the web in-flight.
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Tags: airline, airplane, GoGo, inflight, Row 44, service, Wi-Fi, WiFi
Americans are shedding wired connections at a good clip, says a new study from the Pew Research Center. Nearly 60% of all U.S. adults connect to the Internet wirelessly these days.
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Tags: Americans, Internet, Pew Research Center, survey, Web, WiFi, wirless
Your company’s road warriors now have a simple, cheap solution to taking credit card payments in the field using just their mobile phone or PDA. The catch: The service is being offered by AT&T.
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Tags: Apriva, AprivaPay, AprivaPay Professional, AT&T, credit card, mobile phone, payment
Anybody who ever watched “The Wire” or read a 21st century thriller probably has a pretty good idea of how a pre-paid wireless phone works.
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Tags: burner, cell phone, cellphones, Charles E. Schumer, John Cornyn, law, legislation, senators, U.S. Senate
How valuable is your “brand?” Well, the top 100 of them saw their value increase 4% last year while the global economy took a nose dive. And leading the top 100 were four tech firms.
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Tags: branding, BrandZ, Millward Brown Optimor, technology, top brands
Apple execs face a tough decision in coming weeks: Do they approve an Opera browser app for the iPhone or do they reject it using the convoluted logic employed in the past?
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Tags: app store, Apple, approval, Opera, Opera mini, Web browser
The whole “cell phones cause cancer” argument is beginning to feel a lot like the smoking and cancer dust up that went on decades ago.
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Tags: cancer, cellphones, links, research, smartphones
You think mobile data traffic is jammed these days? Just wait, say the folks at Cisco. The global networking giant says worldwide global mobile data traffic will grow 108% a year for at least the next four years.
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Tags: Cisco, data, growth, mobile, research, traffic, wireless
Apple and AT&T delivered some big news in a very small voice this week — news that was somewhat overshadowed by all the hoopla over the iPad. The announcement: The partners will allow VOIP on Apple products that use 3G.
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Tags: 3G, allow, Apple, apps, AT&T, iPad, iphone, software developement kit, VOIP
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