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AT&T or Verizon: Which offers the best deal on 4G iPad data?
CNET (blog)
I have not been able to find anything on Web blogs or elsewhere, however, about any difference in data consumption for AT&T's HSPA+ (faux 4G) relative to Verizon's 3G. This could be very important factor in determining which version of the iPad to ...
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Keynote WebEffective – Now Supports User Experience Testing on the iPad Tablet ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Keynote ® Systems (NASDAQ:KEYN), the global leader in Internet and mobile cloud testing & monitoring, today announced that WebEffective®, Keynote's SaaS-based customer experience management platform for conducting large ...
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Why Your Company Needs An iPhone / iPad At Work Policy
Cult of Mac
Mobile technology is playing an ever bigger role in the workplace. According to a recent study by IT training and certification giant CompTIA, 84% of knowledge workers use an iPhone or other smartphone for at least some work tasks on a daily basis ...
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'Draw Something': Hottest game since 'Angry Birds'
USA TODAY
... iPod Touch and iPad (and Android) is a mobile game that challenges gamers to draw a particular object on the touch-screen device -- such as overalls, a picnic, coffin, penguin or even Lady Gaga -- and another player, somewhere on the Internet, ...
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USA TODAY
Keep iPad In Business Costs Down By Thinking Outside Of The Box
Cult of Mac
This shared iPad model can be a way to implement the iPad while reducing overall expense. One challenge, however, is that a business typically needs to provide mobile Internet access for individuals or small teams – something that can be a pricey ...
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Magid: A few thoughts on tech pioneer Jack Tramiel and startup Instagram
San Jose Mercury News
Tramiel's passing didn't get nearly as much press coverage as Facebook's decision to spend $1 billion to buy a startup whose only accomplishment was a single mobile application called Instagram. The company has no revenue and doesn't even let you view ...
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When trends collide: Pricey LTE mobile broadband vs. video streaming
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
But after buying a new iPad with a 4G LTE connection, I thought I'd experiment with using video on its high-resolution display to keep my mind occupied while I sweat. I did it once, and I probably won't do it again, thanks to the high cost of the ...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Stores go online to find a perfect fit
San Jose Mercury News
Nordstrom.com has introduced same-day shipping in certain markets and it has applications for Apple's (AAPL) iPad and iPhone devices. Last year, Nordstrom put more than 6000 mobile hand-held devices in its stores for easy checkout and inventory lookup.
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WinInfo Short Takes: April 13, 2012
Windows IT Pro
I am expecting Windows 8 (or what Microsoft called Windows On ARM, or WOA) to perform well in the so-called "media tablet" market, that market for devices that sit functionally somewhere between "real" PCs and smart phones, like the iPad.
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Windows IT Pro
Making sense of 4G and other myths
USA TODAY
Mobile Internet speeds can vary greatly from one location to another. Cell towers are scattered, and when many users are connected to a tower at the same time, speed bogs down. Still, LTE speeds can put some home broadband connections to shame.
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USA TODAY
Pew survey shows 1 in 5 US adults don't use Internet
The Hill (blog)
Mobile technology, however, is becoming increasingly important in allowing all Americans access to the Internet — 88 percent of Americans own a mobilephone and 57 percent a laptop. E-book readers like Amazon's Kindle and tablets like Apple's iPad ...
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Binary Options Pioneer TradoLogic Releases High-Quality iPhone Native Mobile App
PR Web (press release)
The fully customized mobile application features a full player cycle, allowing traders to open accounts and deposit via their mobile devices, without the need to go to the Internet. In its constant strive to offer operators outstanding business value, ...
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Smartenit Delivers First Android, iOS, Web Browser and Desktop Application for ...
Houston Chronicle
The Smartenit® App offers easy monitoring and control of ZigBee® and INSTEON® automation networks, and will run on mobile/tablet platforms (Android and iOS), web browsers, and on Windows, Mac, and Linux desktops. The application uses a local gateway ...
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MLB.com At Bat Sustains Frenzied Pace
Missouri Sports Magazine
(Daniel Johnson, Missouri Sports Magazine) – MLB Advanced Media, LP (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, today announced that its MLB.com At Bat 12 application surpassed the three million download mark yesterday ...
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More Than 27 Percent Of Emails Are Opened On Mobile Devices (Report)
Marketing Land
Mobile internet growth isn't just limited to the web. Consumers are also using mobile devices more frequently to read emails. According to a new report from marketing agency Knotice, more than 27 percent of emails were opened on a mobile device during...
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Marketing Land
Are Your Presentations iPad Friendly? Why REALTORS Are Embracing Tablet Technology
RisMedia.com (press release)
According to Lim, 25 percent of web users in the US access the webexclusively through mobile devices, which include tablets. This percentage is low compared to other developed nations, so mobile usage in the US is expected to skyrocket further in the ...
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Internet Broadcasting and CoreMedia CEOs Plot How to Break Out of Technology ...
Broadcast Newsroom
Internet Broadcasting, the leading provider of digital publishing technology and services for local TV newsrooms, and CoreMedia, a leading Web content management (WCM) company, today announced that Elmer Baldwin, CEO,Internet Broadcasting (IB) will ...
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Former RIM boss sought strategy shift
Reuters
The plan would have let the carriers use the RIM network to offer inexpensive data plans, limited to social media and instant messaging, to entice low-tier customers to upgrade from no-frills phones to smartphones. But the talks with carriers led to ...
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Leaked: roadmaps for Office 15, IE10 and more
ITWorld Canada
Zoho launches Android, iPad apps for CRMBy: Chris Kanaracus (30 Mar 2012)BOSTON - Zoho is expanding its push into mobile applications on Monday, rolling out native Android and iPad clients for its CRM and project management .
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Retailers team up to find a perfect fit
Bend Bulletin
One month later, Wal-Mart Stores paid about $300 million for Kosmix, a social-media startup that now serves as the retailer's lab for building and testing newWeb and mobile applications. The world's largest retailer also owns a controlling stake in ...
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The Morning Download: Google's Stock Split a Boon to CIOs
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Intel, which designed the specifications, is making a big marketing push, selling the devices as just as sleek and light as MacBook Airs — only cheaper — and more business-friendly than the iPad. But CIOs don't seem to be biting.
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15 Current Technologies My Newborn Son Won't Use
Gizmodo
Even today, 4G LTE provides comparable download speeds and better upload speeds than cable Internet, but the cost of using mobile broadband all the time is prohibitive. At some point in the next few years, broadband providers are going to realize that ...
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'Angry Birds' Creator Makes Push Into China
Jakarta Globe
Rovio has recorded more than 100 million downloads for the “Angry Birds” game in China, helped by demand from users ofphones running Google's Android operating system, and Apple's iPhone and iPad devices. China's biggest Internet companies such as ...
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Jakarta Globe
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's HMH Fuse: Algebra 1 Common Core App Named an ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and often described as the Academy Awards of the Internet, the Webby Awards honor excellence across a range of categories including Website, Interactive Advertising & Media, ...
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Former RIM boss Balsillie sought radical strategy shift before he quit
Toronto Star
Alastair Sharp Reuters Related RIM's new CEO already under fireOnline reaction: New PlayBook update RIM releases new PlayBook OS RIM flunks PR test despite YouTube apology More RIM coverage TORONTO—Former Research In Motion co-chief executive Jim ...
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Toronto Star
Wal-Mart Previews 'Disc to Digital' Movie Service
Sci-Tech Today
The new service allows movie fans to walk into any Walmart, where they can present their old DVDs and get permanent access to an online version of each movie that can be streamed from a home computer or a mobile device. The DVDs are stamped with a...
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Sci-Tech Today
The State of the Gate
Wall Street Journal
Packed within and around them, however, is a plethora of state-of-the-art technology—facial-recognition devices, Internet-connected digital cameras, remote iPad control and other features—that can drive up the cost of an entry up to $1 million or more.
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Hands-on with Walmart's disc-to-digital program
ConsumerReports.org
If cloud-based services, which store digital content such as music and movies on Web-based servers to allow consumers nearly ubiquitous access, are all the rage, Walmart's new disc-to-digital program adds an interesting wrinkle.
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Boingo Wireless to Manage and Operate Wi-Fi at U.S. Cellular Field
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Premium access is available for Boingo Unlimited and Boingo Mobile monthly subscribers. White Sox fans can also use Boingo Wi-Fi Credits to purchase premium access for $1.99 per hour with their iPhone, iPad or other iOS mobiledevices.
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Shades of 1984 Emerge in Broadcast TV Copyright Flap
Wired News
The upstart, Aereo, opened for business last month and suppliesinternet streams and a DVR service for over-the-air broadcasts to its New York customers. In other words, Aereo lets those in New York who want to watch on their iPad what they can pull ...
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Wired News
Beyond the looks...
BusinessDay
Users of Samsung products, on the other hand, are conscious of the fact that they get a huge number and variety of ringtones on their phones. Equally, iPhone users are on the high end as owners are lovers of mobile internet, GPS functions, ...
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BusinessDay
Make Your Communications Mobile-Friendly
OfficialWire (press release)
And that percentage is swelling as smartphone display screens increase in size and clarity and as mobile Internet connection speeds improve. In fact, amobile email study by Return Path released May 17, 2011, revealed an 81 percent growth in mobile ...
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Widescreen monitors become the most used on the internet
The Verge
It's worth mentioning that StatCounter separates mobile and desktop browsers for other stats, so for example the 1024 x 768 iPad might not be included here. The dramatic increase in the use of the 1366 x 768 resolution is likely down to its commonness ...
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Cisco Systems, Inc. - Special Call
Seeking Alpha
And let me kick it off out here with our latest love affair, which is our new iPad. I don't know if many of you have realized it or not, but with just upgrading your tablet from the iPad 2 to the new iPad with retina display, it's any video stream that ...
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Go Further pops up near Union Square
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Downstairs, a Pandora listening station offers a chance to play with the Internet radio company's latest features. You can also scope out new Moshi accessories for the iPhone, iPad and other devices. Upstairs, a mini-shop by cult art toymaker KidRobot ...
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San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Seamless Is "Ready for Its Close Up" With Los Angeles Market Expansion
Technology Digital (press release)
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - April 12, 2012) - Seamless (www.seamless.com), the leading mobile and online service for ordering delivery and takeout food from more than 9500 top restaurants in the US and UK, today announced its expansion in the second ...
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Business news: Google stock wrinkle, Goldman Sachs settles charges, Best Buy ...
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Companies will probably commit 23 percent of their search-based ad spending to mobile devices by the end of this year, according to Marin Software, which helps manage about $3.5 billion annually in online ads. That's up from 8.7 percent at the end of ...
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Friday Grab Bag: Who gets Hard Knocks and Tablet Sales Soaring
Mobile Sports Report
Well Cnet's Jessica Dolcourt has taken the time to break down the issues and lay them out in a piece entitled 7 Myths about quad-core phones. She looks into issues such as app development, impact on battery life and top down development of the cores, ...
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Mobile Sports Report
Finalists Selected for the Charlotte Venture Challenge
Examiner.com
InstructHealthcare is developing online tutoring for physician assistants (PAs) preparing to take the Physician Assistant National Recertifying Exam to gain their certification. Proximitas is developing a mobile platform that will allow meeting ...
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RIM's Jim Balsillie sought strategy shift before he quit
Montreal Gazette
The devices will have to do just that, analysts say, to arrest the precipitous decline in market share suffered by RIM, the company that virtually inventedmobile email more than a decade ago. Balsillie's plan may have heralded a broader strategic move ...
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Avantair, Inc. Enhancing Its Fleet with Wi-Fi
Avionics Intelligence
The system provides fast mobile broadband connection speeds via a seamless nationwide network of ground stations. Its superior connection makes it easy for users to download files with attachments, access VPNs, surf the Internet and talk on the phone ...
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Will time travelers know where they are?
China Daily
Would it be the Chinese digital mobile network, or the iPad? Or would it be the position that China now occupies in the world? I think that what would astonish our recent ancestors most would be the variety of food on display in Chinese supermarkets ...
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China Daily
How enterprises can tackle the bring-your-own-tablet challenge
VentureBeat
In fact, many newly released tablet devices and software updates (eg Android's Ice Cream Sandwich update, BlackBerry Playbook 2.0 update, and the new iPad) include enterprise-friendly features, making it relatively easy for employees to leverage ...
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VentureBeat
Late News: Nokia Lumia 900 Coming to UK on April 27?, New iPad ...
Late News: Nokia Lumia 900 Coming to UK on April 27?, New iPad OnlineTraffic Stats, Amazon Seeks Higher Publisher Discounts ... The mobile is a larger version of last year's Lumia 800 and comes with the promise of 4G connectivity.
ITProPortal.com: Mobile & Telco
Internet Retailer : Mobile Commerce - iPad users love to shop at ...
Bill Siwicki , Managing Editor, Mobile Commerce ... A new report shows thatiPad traffic to retail web sites indeed spikes smack in the middle of prime time.
www.internetretailer.com/.../ipad-users-love-shop-night-couch...
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