Spanish operator Telefonica is worried about the Android-iOS smartphone duopoly, and has joined with Microsoft in a marketing blitz that it hopes will convince consumers to pick up smartphones based on Windows Phone. For one year, ...
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American Airlines has completed the successful rollout of its industry-leading Electronic Flight Bag program with the discontinuation of paper revisions to terminal charts, making it the first major commercial airline to fully utilize ...
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eRecyclingCorps (eRC), the world's leading provider of carrier-grade wireless device trade-in and reuse, today announced that it completed more than 1.1 million secure wireless device trade-ins in May 2013, setting a new industry record for ...
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is moving toward relaxing the rules about using electronic devices on airplanes, according to a published report, but the decision isn't final yet. An advisory panel to the FAA has recommended that ...
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Virgin Mobile USA will begin selling the iPhone 5 next Friday, June 28. A 16 GB version will cost $549.99. For $35 a month, as part Virgin's Beyond Talk plan, the pre-paid carrier will provide unlimited 3G and 4G LTE data, and unlimited ...
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Photo courtesy of Heathrow Airport. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) 69th Annual General Meeting (AGM) overwhelmingly endorsed the resolution on “Implementation of the Aviation Carbon-Neutral Growth (CNG2020) ...
Electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group is putting yet more effort behind Mozilla's Firefox OS, and plans to hire up to 3,000 people in Taiwan with expertise in HTML5 and cloud computing. On Thursday, Foxconn said it was looking ...
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Zepol Corporation, the leading trade intelligence company, reports that U.S. import shipment volume for May, measured in TEUs, increased by 3% compared to April, but decreased 2.2% compared to May of last year. The second-consecutive ...
The successor to LG's Optimus G smartphone, due sometime in the third quarter, will run a faster Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, the companies announced late Wednesday. The 800 series chip is notable for integrating support for faster ...
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Samsung today announced the 20-megapixel Samsung Galaxy NX, which is the first mirrorless (a.k.a. SLR-like) camera with 3G/4G connectivity, the same wireless networking system found on smart phones. It allows you the versatility of an ...
The emerging IEEE 802.11ac wireless LAN standard will be able to deliver faster connections wherever it's used, but the biggest benefit may come at public hotspots -- eventually. On Wednesday, the Wi-Fi Alliance started certifying ...
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Faster network speeds are better, right? LTE cis coming soon to the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone, offering double the downlink speeds of LTE (Long Term Evolution). But U.S. carriers still have to upgrade LTE networks to operate with LTE ...
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As part of an ongoing effort to keep New Yorkers connected, AT&T and Bloomberg administration officials today unveiled AT&T Street Charge. This pilot initiative provides free solar mobile charging stations in locations across all five ...
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The energy supply specialist igus GmbH Cologne, introduces a guiding trough for energy chains, that is easy and simple to install. "guidefast" has been developed especially for a lateral mounting to standard carriers of industry and hall ...
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Samsung plans to begin selling a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone capable of supporting LTE-Advanced 4G networks -- which offer download speeds that are twice as fast as LTE -- in South Korea this month. No U.S. wireless carrier is ...