News Clips
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| The Los Angeles Times: Cellphones may make wallets obsolete Ever write a check while shopping and sweat over whether the check would clear? A growing number of banks are offering a new and fairly painless way to eliminate the guesswork. The solution fits in your pocket. Read the Story |
08/26/08 |
| The Associated Press: Remote weather stations give farmers timely advice For apple growers like Abby Jacobson, making or losing money depends as much on what they don't do as what they do. So when data from Michigan State University's high-tech weather monitoring network helped her decide to skip four costly chemical sprayings this spring, she considered it an unqualified success. Read the Story |
08/25/08 |
| Business Week: Apple’s Ambitious iPhone 3G Plans Forecasting iPhone sales is one of tech's toughest guessing games. Since Apple's iPhone 3G came storming out of the gate with 1 million units sold in the three days after it went on sale July 11, analysts have scrambled to come up with a reliable forecast for how many of the devices the consumer electronics maker will sell in the coming years. Read the Story |
08/25/08 |
| The Chicago Tribune: Voice mail: DOA Don't bother leaving a message for your friends or family. They'll just ignore it. Read the Story |
08/25/08 |
| The Wall Street Journal: Text Messaging Largely Passes Its High-Profile National Test In Chapel Hill, N.C., Jenny Nicholson is still waiting for her text message announcing Sen. Barack Obama's running mate. She is among a smattering of people who say they signed up for Sen. Obama's dispatch but received the message late or not at all. Their reactions highlight a potential downside of a medium that users prize for its immediacy. Read the Story |
08/25/08 |
| USA Today: AT&T offers in-home tech assistance ; Takes a page from Geek Squad AT&T, taking aim at Best Buy's Geek Squad and other tech services, has launched a 50-state in-home support service for computers, TVs, broadband, wireless and more. Read the Story |
08/22/08 |
| The New York Times: Smartphone Start-Ups Have a Friend in This Fund Matt Murphy eats at expensive steakhouses, likes to watch his kids play soccer and is a loyal fan of Peet's Coffee and Tea. And if he has his way, mobile phone users will know as much about each other as readers now know about him. Read the Story |
08/22/08 |
| The Bakersfield Californian Robert Price column: Ode to a dying friend: the telephone land-line Pretty soon, if telecommunications companies' quarterly reports keep trending the way they've been trending, land-line phones will be relics. The number of wireless-only homes keeps going up and the number of wired residential customers keep falling. Read the Story |
08/19/08 |
| Wall Street Journal: New battleground: mobile devices During the "platform wars' of the 1980s, tech companies duked it out over which computer operating system would emerge from a crowded field. Now, there's a new platform war being waged, and this time the battleground is mobile devices. The bad news for businesses looking to standardize on a winner: The most likely outcome is multiple survivors. Read the Story |
08/19/08 |
| Investor's Business Daily: Machines yearn for wireless services too Nonhumans are the new face in wireless marketing. With slowing subscribber growth among human users, wireless phone companies are targeting machine-to-machine, or M2M, connections. AT&T on Monday plans to announce a pact with Itron to team up to sell automatic electric meter reading systems to utilities. Phone companies see a big opportunity in the M2M market, largely made up of commercial and industrial services that use wireless data links. Read the Story |
08/18/08 |