Google is acquiring iProvo, a fiber-optic network owned by the city of Provo, Utah, as part of a plan to introduce its high-speed broadband network called Google Fiber there. As part of the acquisition, Google will upgrade the network to ...
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Why LED? According to the LUMEN Coalition, a single LED light bulb can last upwards of 25,000 hours and uses 75% less energy than an equivalent incandescent light bulb. Lumens measure the amount of light produced by a bulb while watts ...
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Tapjoy, Inc. today announced that several new industry-leading, non-gaming apps have integrated the Tapjoy Marketplace, which helps app developers monetize a larger percentage of their user base by presenting a list of relevant ...
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Saudi Arabia has threatened action against Internet-based communications applications if they do not meet local rules, suggesting that the kingdom is ready for a showdown with some of these providers over local monitoring of their services. ...
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THE US Patent and Trademark Office has denied Apple's application for a trademark to safeguard its popular iPad mini tablet, saying the case to own the phrase was too weak. Apple, however, has until July 24 to better explain how the ...
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North Korea has abruptly stopped offering 3G mobile Internet access to tourists entering the country, just three weeks after the service was launched, according to a travel company. The country's sole 3G provider, Koryolink, halted the ...
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It's full speed ahead for connected cars as more consumers crave and demand integration of smartphones and vehicle dashboards. A recent study capturing the opinions of 8,000 consumers across eight countries discovered that buyers "expect ...
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Mobile-based browsing has tripled in the last two years, and is making significant inroads on traditional Internet access from personal computers, according to statistics from a Web metrics company. Mobile's gains are in part a side ...
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Internet connectivity to North Korea was restored Friday after a day-and-a-half-long outage that the country's official media blamed on international hacking. Connections to the Star, North Korea's sole Internet service provider, hit ...
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Google is expanding its Google Fiber project, reaching out to offer the service in Olathe, Kansas, the fifth largest city in the state. "Olathe has become one of the fastest-growing cities in Kansas and has attracted an influx of new ...
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The American population's voracious appetite for digitized information and ccontinues unabated, creating a groundswell of consumers who move seamlessly between smartphones, tablets and laptops to consume digital content, often using ...
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Internet connectivity in North Korea was restored on Friday following a 36-hour outage that the country’s official media blamed on international hacking. Connections to the Star, North Korea’s sole Internet service provider, ...
The number of teenagers in the U.S. using smartphones has risen sharply, with half of them accessing the Internet mainly through the device, according to a recent study. 78% of teens in the U.S. have a cellphone, a figure that has ...
Akado Telecom, a multi-service cable network operator, has launched a high-speed metro optical network in the Moscow region of Russia, based on the DTN and ATN platforms of Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated ...
DuPont said that while new digital technology is allowing farmers to gather massive amounts of data, the real value comes when data drives insights to help them improve their operations’ profitability. “In today’s ...