IDG News Service - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission rushed to judgment in giving permission in early 2011 for startup LightSquared to offer LTE service in a band of wireless spectrum next to a band used by GPS devices, several ...
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare IT has published the final set of criteria that healthcare providers must meet in order to demonstrate that they have reached Stage 2 of "meaningful use" of electronic health records ...
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Design For Asia Award 2012 honors Arcitone spot Royal Philips Electronics has received four prizes at the Design For Asia Award (DFA) 2012 in the category Product/Industrial design. Design For Asia recognizes companies and designers ...
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In general, all the LED products can be divided into two major parts, the public lighting and indoor lighting. LED uses fall into four major categories: Visual signals where light goes more or less directly from the source to the human ...
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A Federal Communications Commission-led initiative has launched a program that will allow U.S.organizations to donate used computers to low-income people. "The costs of digital exclusion are rising,"said Federal Communications Commission ...
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IDG News Service - A U.S. Federal Communications Commission cap on rural telephone subsidies will cost jobs in rural areas and lead to higher prices for customers in those areas, a group of rural carriers said. The FCC's cap on payments ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced the new ElitePad 900 tablet with Windows 8, and said the device can be easily disassembled to replace components in order to save hardware and support costs. The HP ElitePad 900 ...
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Google said Tuesday it is starting to connect homes in Kansas City, Kan., to its Google Fiber broadband service. The installation will have two phases, starting with pulling fiber-optic cables from the street to the side of the home, and ...
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IDG News Service - Japan's Softbank said Monday it has reached a deal to acquire a 70% stake in U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel for $20 billion, forming one of the world's largest telecom operators. The companies said the deal would ...
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The government is providing funds for a new project for the University of Surrey to develop the next generation of mobile broadband systems. Money for the research will be part of the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund,which ...
Plusnet is to launch a TV advertising campaign highlighting its new fibre offering. Plusnet, the home phone and broadband provider, has announced the launch of a new TV campaign, bringing to life its new fibre offering, which is eight ...
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A judge has approved the text of a letter that is to be sent to O2 customers suspected of illegally sharing adult films made by Ben Dover Productions. In March, the film company won a court order forcing O2 to identify the users of more ...
Tags: O2, illegally sharing, adult films, Golden Eye, piracy
New Consumer Analytics research from Parks Associates indicates U.S. consumers plan to spend over 33 percent more on CE devices this holiday season compared to last year, with the total amount increasing from $793 per household in 2011 to ...
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Telstra's rivals have made an 11th-hour plea to the competition regulator to halt the telco giant's proposed acquisition of budget broadband provider Adam Internet. Senior executives from iiNet, Vodafone and Macquarie Telecom yesterday ...
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A consortium of UK universities will research the challenges associated with the use of IT as a utility as part of a£1.5m investment by the Research Council. The University of Southampton will establish a research network of ...
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