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Roger Yu / USA Today:
Sprint bids: Dish's Ergen swings back at Softbank's Son   —  The high-stakes bidding war for control of the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier is turning into a heated verbal joust.  —  In an interview with USA TODAY on Wednesday, Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen swung back at Japan's SoftBank …
May 2, 2013, 12:05 AMIn context
Bart Jansen / USA Today:
FAA to pilots: Turn off personal devices in the cockpit   —  It's akin to not texting while driving, airline safety expert and former pilot John Cox says. … WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing to prohibit pilots from using personal wireless devices in the cockpit …
Jan 15, 2013, 6:55 PMIn context
Roger Yu / USA Today:
Indoor map technology poses challenges, opportunities   —  Digital cartographers view indoor space as an untapped but potentially lucrative field.  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — Start-ups and tech giants pursue varying solutions, but tapping Wi-Fi networks is most popular method
Nov 27, 2012, 6:15 AMIn context
Byron Acohido / USA Today:
U.S. consumers hesitant to make switch to Windows 8   —  Most Windows users in the U.S. know about Windows 8 but few have immediate plans to upgrade to Microsoft's newest operating system.  —  Customers get a look at products at Microsoft's pop-up store in Manhattan in October.
Nov 15, 2012, 8:20 PMIn context
Roger Yu / USA Today:
Voice mail in decline with rise of text, loss of patience   —  Technology's ceaseless pursuit of efficiency appear to be claiming another victim: voice mail.  —  With the rise of texting, instant chat and transcription apps, more people are ditching the venerable tool that once revolutionized …
Sep 4, 2012, 8:50 AMIn context
Roger Yu / USA Today:
From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business   —  The nation is in a sharing mood — and start-ups are capitalizing on it.  —  Americans with heaps of stuff, skills and time are connecting online with tech-savvy and early adopters eager to share and rent homes …
Jul 16, 2012, 8:45 AMIn context
Mike Snider / USA Today:
Beats Electronics acquires MOG music service   —  Beats Electronics, the company best known for its Beats By Dr. Dre headphones, is acquiring the online music service MOG.  —  The parties did not disclose the terms of the acquisition, the first for the company co-founded by rapper and producer …
Jul 2, 2012, 7:30 AMIn context
Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
Creative Artists Agency gets into celebrity tech start-ups   —  When Matt Kozlov walks through the halls of the super-powerful Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency each morning, he works alongside agents and managers for George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston.  His job?
Apr 21, 2012, 2:55 PMIn context
USA Today:
Apple: iPad preorders sell out, demand ‘off the charts’   —  If you are hoping to score a new iPad from Apple, you might have to wait.  Apple's website shows March 19 as the earliest ship date for online orders of its popular tablet computer.  And there is a limit of two per customer on the number of tablets that can preordered.
Mar 11, 2012, 6:10 PMIn context
Kathy Chu / USA Today:
Apple plans environmental audits of China suppliers   —  HONG KONG - Apple has told a prominent Chinese environmental activist that it will soon launch independent environmental audits of at least two suppliers' factories in China, the activist said.  —  The audits come as Apple faces mounting criticism …
Feb 21, 2012, 1:55 AMIn context

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Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek  —  You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry  —  In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
Love, Magic, & APIs  —  I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page.  Don't hate.  It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hive 0.11, Stinger and SQL-Compatibility  —  The release of Hive 0.11 is exciting and represents a big step forward to delivery of Project Stinger and SQL-IN-Hadoop.  There is still some work to be done however.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).