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Verizon upgrades IP network in major cities, blames your bandwidth guzzling
Dec 16th
Big Red’s finding its pipes cluttered with all of the young people’s streaming video, audio and cloud services. That’s why it’s busting out the credit card to order a fresh new 100G IPv6 network for Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York and Seattle. It’ll need Cisco’s CRS-3 Carrier Routing System to help the network scale to areas of highest demand, but since it’s already using CRS-1, it should be a simple matter of swapping out the old kit. FiOS customers will also see network improvements when the upgrade is finished in the first half of next year, just be on the look out for repairmen huddling ’round your nearest junction box.
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Verizon upgrades IP network in major cities, blames your bandwidth guzzling originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Samsung takes aim at Apple with Australian Galaxy Tab ad, credits Cupertino for its popularity
Dec 15th
Samsung takes aim at Apple with Australian Galaxy Tab ad, credits Cupertino for its popularity originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Facebook Could Spawn Thousands of Milionaires
Dec 13th
Hugh Pickens writes “Retuers reports that the world’s No. 1 online social network is preparing for a blockbuster initial public offering that could create thousands of millionaires as Facebook employees past and present begin hatching plans on how to spend their anticipated new wealth. ‘There’s been discussions of sort of bucket list ideas that people are putting together of things they always wanted to do and now we’ll be able to do it,’ says one former employee who expects his shares to be worth $50 million and is planning to book a trip to space with Virgin Galactic that would cost $200,000 or more. ‘It’s been a childhood dream.’ Another group of Facebook workers has begun laying the groundwork for its own jungle expedition to excavate a relatively untouched site of Mayan ruins in Mexico that sounds like Raiders of the Lost Ark. But for many of Facebook’s staffers, the IPO will provide the means to pay off school loans and buy a house or new car and many homeowners and real-estate agents are eagerly anticipating a surge of new buyers that could push prime real estate to new heights. ‘If a Facebook guy buys a house and wants to remodel it, maybe the contractor will buy another car,’ says Buff Giurlani. ‘Maybe the realtor will put a car in. There’s a trickle-down effect.’”
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Sean University: A Room with a(n) (Inter)view
Dec 9th
How will asking someone a series of questions better inform your understanding of how or she would perform as an employee? What are the three most essential questions to ask in a job interview? In how many different ways can an effective interview impact your business?
The answers to these questions are yes, yes, and yes, because effective interviews are essential to your business, much like clear and sensible transitions between paragraphs are essential to educational articles on the internet!
Unfortunately, interviewing someone effectively can be time-consuming and complicated. You can
T-Mobile BlackBerry Bold 9900 available on August 31st, on presale to business customers today
Aug 17th
There’s a good chance you’ve already heard a thing or two (or a hundred) about the BlackBerry Bold 9900 series, so by now you have a good idea whether or not you’ll want to pick one up. So if you’re leaning toward “buy,” T-Mobile’s got one coming to a retail store near you on August 31st, with the phone on presale for business customers starting today. Procurers of the new device will need to shell out $300 after a $50 mail-in rebate. Early adopters, start your engines! The full press release can be found after the break.
T-Mobile BlackBerry Bold 9900 available on August 31st, on presale to business customers today originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Fireball in North Buffalo, NY
Jul 23rd
A huge fireball grows over the Niagara Lubricants plant in North Buffalo today following an explosion and collapse of the West wall of the building. First alarms came in about 5:45 am and 11 hours later it’s still burning badly. The business provided different types of petroleum based lubricant products.
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Apple retail chief Ron Johnson takes his empire-building genius to J.C. Penney
Jun 16th
You may not know the name Ron Johnson, but you’re definitely familiar with his work — this is the man who built Apple’s retail empire. Eleven years ago Jobs brought Johnson on to create the first Apple store, stealing him away from his position at Target. Now the man who brought you the Genius Bar and roaming, iPhone-wielding sales reps is moving on, and taking his expertise to the department store stalwart J.C. Penney. A spokesperson for the Cupertino crew told All Things D that the company was already searching for his replacement, but we’re more interested in what Johnson will be doing with the shopping mall staple when he takes over as CEO on November 1st. We can only imagine that iPad-based virtual fitting rooms and desks of Jean-iuses will be helping you pick out your next pair of Levis. PR after the break.
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Apple retail chief Ron Johnson takes his empire-building genius to J.C. Penney originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Steam Now Offering Free-To-Play Games
Jun 15th
donniebaseball23 writes “Valve’s digital Steam service is going strong with 30 million active accounts, and now the developer has further boosted its offerings by adding free-to-play titles. Steam is kicking off its support of the free-to-play model with five titles (which will include in-game Steam exclusives): Spiral Knights, Forsaken Worlds, Champions Online: Free for All, Global Agenda: Free Agent, and Alliance of Valliant Arms. Valve’s support of free-to-play shows just how widely accepted it’s become.”
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Lenovo buying Medion for up to $907 million, expects to double its German PC market share
Jun 3rd
It looks like you can expect to see a lot more of Lenovo in Deutschland. The company is buying German consumer electronics maker Medion — a deal worth up to €629.4 million ($907 million), according to The Wall Street Journal. That makes it the company’s biggest acquisition since it bought IBM’s PC business back in 2004. Lenovo’s end game: to boost its market share in Germany, which happens to be Europe’s largest PC market. All told, it hopes to own 14 percent of the PC category there — roughly double what it commands now — and expects its share of the Western European computer market to hit 7.5 percent. Lenovo’s announcement comes at a time when it seems to have some strong upward momentum — just last week, the company reported that its fourth-quarter profit more than tripled year over year (much to Wall Street’s surprise) and that it generated $21 billion in revenue thanks to growth in every product line and every region where it does business. PR chock full ‘o numbers after the break.
Lenovo buying Medion for up to $907 million, expects to double its German PC market share originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Sony posts FY 2010 earnings, singles out profits in PlayStation business
May 26th
So what specifically is responsible for the massive change in operating income, from a
Baton Rouge braces for flood?
May 20th
Sandbags line the Mississippi as the water rests a few feet from the levee’s edge in Baton Rouge. People go about their business, stopping to gaze at the river’s swell. The river is set to breach any day. Will the levee and sandbags hold?
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The Closing of In Harmony Wellness
May 20th
In Harmony Wellness, a patient-focused, community-centered, legal medical cannabis dispensary located in Windsor, Colorado, was forced to close its doors yesterday as a result of a town vote to ban their business. Sadly, this situation is not unique to In Harmony Wellness. Indeed many similar businesses have been forced to shut doors recently due to the fact that the state of Colorado, during their regulatory process of businesses in this industry, gave express permission for individual municipalities to ‘opt out’ or ban legal medical cannabis businesses in their town. This caused a backlash of towns who did just that, banning legitimate taxpaying businesses who are there to provide access to Colorado patients who have a constitutional right to the medicine. In Harmony’s only error was in trusting that the town of Windsor, who initially gave permission for In Harmony to open their business within the town, would see fit to grandfather the business that worked so closely with the the town to do the right thing from the beginning. In Harmony was caregiver to more than 250 patients directly, and a regular provider of medicine to hundreds more; these patients are now forced to drive out of their area to seek similar medical services in one of the few remaining municipalities that so far have not banned, even though the threat still looms large in Northern Colorado to do so. In the two short years that In Harmony was operating, they paid taxes on over $1.5 million dollars in sales to the town and state and provided jobs for fifteen employees in the Northern Colorado area.
Email It Later: Never Forget To Send A Message Again
May 13th
Has this ever happened to you? An important email HAS to go out first thing in the morning– and you can’t send it tonight (at 4 a.m.) without looking really unprofessional. But somehow, exhaustion takes over; you never hear your alarm clock, and you never manage to get that message out on time. As a result, your house burns down, your spouse loses their job, your kid doesn’t get into the school they wanted, and everything is just awful.
Well, maybe it’s not always that bad. But, stepping in to help is a nifty new app called Email It Later. It does exactly what it says; it postpones delivery of your message until the time and date you specify. You compose messages inside the app and it stores them until the time is right. Then, like magic, away they go.
For just $.99, this app could get a great deal of use from a lot of people. Who wouldn’t jump at the chance to compose their messages at 2 a.m. and know that they’d go out during more normal hours?
There is just one problem: Email It Later appends a “Sent By Email It Later” to each message you send out. So much for being professional. In addition to being awkward and unnecessary, I also have to mention that, grammatically, it’s a really strange sentence. Let’s hope they get rid of it!
Email it Later is 99 cents, but no amount of money will remove the signature it attaches. Still, it’s worth a shot if you find yourself out and about at odd hours. Give it a try and let us know what you think!
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Microsoft Buying Skype for $8.5B
May 11th
Approximately one trillion readers wrote in to tell us that there is a big rumor that Microsoft is buying Skype. This follows an earlier rumor that the
suitor was Facebook. Unsurprisingly many people are already wondering what it would mean for Linux users of the popular VoIP platform. Many major publications are running versions of the story.
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World’s Servers Process 9.57ZB of Data a Year
May 9th
CWmike writes “Three years ago, the world’s 27 million business servers processed 9.57 zettabytes, or 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information. Researchers at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the San Diego Supercomputer Center estimate that the total is equivalent to a 5.6-billion-mile-high stack of books stretching from Earth to Neptune and back to Earth, repeated about 20 times. By 2024, business servers worldwide will annually process the digital equivalent of a stack of books extending more than 4.37 light-years to Alpha Centauri, the scientists say. The report, titled ‘How Much Information?: 2010 Report on Enterprise Server Information,’ (PDF) was released at the SNW conference last month.”
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HP launches DataPass to sell prepaid 3G data plans, service piggybacks on Sprint’s network
May 9th
It looks like HP is getting into the prepaid data game. The company just announced DataPass, a solution that lets you purchase 3G service from your laptop. The service is HP-branded, and that isn’t just marketing hype — the company bought excess spectrum from Sprint and is setting its own prices, effectively turning the PC maker into an MVNO. The no-contract plans start at $5 for a modest 75MB, which HP says is enough for about five hours of use, and stretch up to $30 for 1GB. Look for it as an option across the company’s lineup of business notebooks with the Qualcomm Gobi un2400 radio module.
HP launches DataPass to sell prepaid 3G data plans, service piggybacks on Sprint’s network originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 May 2011 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
What I thought when my plane crashed
May 8th
When you start your own company and become your own boss, you think, “Life is good.” When you actually start making money and growing your business, you think, “Life is great.” But when you’re sitting in seat 1D of an airborne plane that’s completely silent because the engines have been shut down, and you hear the pilot say, “Brace for impact,” none of it really matters.
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Gmail now stores up to 25,000 contacts for the insanely popular
May 5th
Are you quietly proud of the girth of your social circle? Do you think having 146 Facebook buddies is impressive? Snap out of it, saddo. Some Gmail users have thousands upon thousands of contacts in their list — so many, in fact, that they’ve been begging Google to increase its 10,000 limit. The Big G has now obliged these jabbering fiends, yanking the limit up to 25,000 and also boosting available cloud storage to 128KB per contact instead of 32KB. We imagine this could be of some help to business users perhaps, or those nice strangers who send out stock tips. But for the rest of us, the gesture is about as inconsequential as the professionally good-looking.
Gmail now stores up to 25,000 contacts for the insanely popular originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 May 2011 06:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
On Monday, AT&T Customers Enter Era of Broadband Caps
Apr 30th
theodp writes “The Age of Broadband Caps begins Monday, with AT&T imposing a 150 GB cap on DSL subscribers and 250 GB for UVerse users, and keeping the meter running after that. The move comes as AT&T’s 16+ million customers are increasingly turning to online video such as Hulu and Netflix on-demand streaming service instead of paying for cable. With AT&T’s Man in the White House, some fear there’s a ‘digital dirt road’ in America’s future. Already, the enforcement of data caps in Canada has prompted Netflix to default to lower-quality streaming video to shield its users from overage fees.”
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HTC job post reveals intention to make a mark on American cars
Apr 29th
HTC’s been riding high on its smartphone success as of late, and now it looks like its ready to cruise into the automotive market. That’s right, the world’s third most valuable smartphone manufacturer is seeking to add a North American “automotive business development director” to its team. According to a job post that appeared on the Taiwan-based company’s website, HTC is looking to hire an “experienced leader in the automotive electronics industry” to “develop business in the automotive market.” Does that mean we’ll be seeing an HTC-branded EV hitting the pavement stateside in the near future? We doubt it, but we suspect this could mean an uptick in HTC in-car accessories and built-in console computers this side of the pond.
[Thanks, Brian]
HTC job post reveals intention to make a mark on American cars originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Is YouTube Launching a Netflix Competitor?
Apr 28th
RedEaredSlider writes “YouTube could become the latest to offer a movie rental service, challenging streaming sites such as Netflix. Google is lining up deals with major Hollywood studios in order to launch the service. An anonymous executive at a studio that has signed on said Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate and Universal have all licensed their movies to the service. Not everyone is on board — Paramount, Fox and Disney declined to join.”
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Why Science Is a Lousy Career Choice
Apr 25th
Hugh Pickens writes “President Obama had a town hall meeting at Facebook’s headquarters last week and said that he wanted to encourage females and minorities to pursue STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). However, Pastabagel writes that the need for American students to study STEM is one of the tired refrains in modern American politics and that plenty of people already study science, but they don’t work in science. ‘MIT grads are more likely to end up in the financial industry, where quants and traders are very well compensated, than in the semiconductor industry where the spectre of outsourcing to India and Asia will hang over their heads for their entire career.’ Philip Greenspun adds that science can be fun, but considered as a career, science suffers by comparison to the professions and the business world. ‘The average scientist that I encounter expresses bitterness about (a) low pay, (b) not getting enough credit or references to his or her work, (c) not knowing where the next job is coming from, (d) not having enough money or job security to get married and/or have children,’ writes Greenspun. ‘Pursuing science as a career seems so irrational that one wonders why any young American would do it.’”
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50% of Apple’s Revenue Comes From the iPhone
Apr 21st
BogenDorpher writes “A new report indicates that 50% of Apple’s revenue comes from its iPhone product. Not 5%, not 20%, but 50%. In just three months from December 2010 to March 2011, Apple has raked in a total of 24.6 billion dollars. 50% of that came from the iPhone.”
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New Xbox 360 Bluetooth headset unlocks business casual achievement (video)
Jul 28th
Posted by admin in Gadget News
The new Xbox 360 wireless headset has a form factor that ought prove familiar to anyone who has ever watched a businessman chew out his secretary while ordering at latte at Starbucks. The peripheral connects wirelessly to the console via its standard radio frequencies — its similarities to a non-gaming Bluetooth headset are more than just skin deep, however, with the earpiece doubling as just that, making it compatible with Bluetooth-ready phones and PCs. This one says “Xbox 360″ on it, however, to help you avoid accidentally being mistaken for a stock trader. The headset will go on sale in November for $60. Also newly announced is the Xbox 360 Media Remote, which controls streaming content, CD / DVD playback, and live TV viewed through the console. The remote will be available for $20 around the same time as the headset.
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New Xbox 360 Bluetooth headset unlocks business casual achievement (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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