Sprint Loses More Customers Than Estimated, Will Cut 2000 Jobs (video)

Sprint Loses More Customers Than Estimated, Will Cut 2K Jobs: Video - Bloomberg:
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Sprint lost more customers than analysts projected as new CEO Marcelo Claure began to counter rivals’ escalating price cuts. As the company continues to lose money and subscribers, Sprint said it will cut about 2,000 more jobs. Estimize CEO Leigh Drogen and Bloomberg Intelligence's John Butler have more on "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg 11/3)

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With Calendar app revamp, Google aims to keep rivals at bay
CNET
Tablet Review: Amazon's Fire Vs Google's Nexus 9 - ABC News
Google Just Released a Brand New Google Calendar App - TIME
Nexus 9 Review: Google's Flagship Tablet Is Nothing Special - Gizmodo


Wall Street Journal
Apple, Google Set Disney Video Deal
Google partnership with Disney streams its catalog to Android - CNET
Disney partners with Google to bring its cloud movie locker to Android and Google Play Movies - Gigaom

Bill Gates' $578M Planned Microsoft Stock Sale
Barron's
Microsoft shares went flying out the windows last week. ... of the company, Gates now serves as a technology advisor and on the company's board.


New York Daily News
Internet Archive Brings Vintage Arcade Games Right To Your Browser
Huffington Post
If office productivity takes a tumble around the world today, you can blame the Internet Archive. The online home of the "Wayback Machine" archive of old websites as well as libraries of books, videos and music has added some 900 classic arcade games that ...

Wall Street Journal
Google Renews Its Cloud Efforts
Wall Street Journal
Google is making a renewed effort to catch Amazon in so-called cloud services...


New York Times
Facebook Conducted Another Secret Experiment On Users
Huffington Post
Facebook quietly tweaked the news feeds of 1.9 million users before the 2012 election so they would see more "hard news" shared by friends. That change may have boosted voter turnout by as much as 3 percent, according to a little-known study first ...

PC Advisor
Nest Thermostat update 4.3 lands with improved energy saving
TrustedReviews
The Nest Thermostat made home heating cool when it hit the UK earlier this year, now the innovative device is being made even better thanks to a software update. Nest has been tinkering with the Thermostat's inner workings, with the new software update ...

PCWorld
Microsoft Cloud Apps vs. Best of Breed
Enterprise Apps Today
Microsoft offers cloud-based apps for business intelligence, CRM and ERP. You'll want to evaluate the "best-of-breed" approach to going with a single vendor like Microsoft for everything. When you think of Microsoft, you naturally think of operating systems ...

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Robot Tweeting Its Way Through Hurricane Iselle (video)

Check Out the Robot Tweeting Its Way Through Iselle: Video - Bloomberg:
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Liquid Robotics President and CEO Gary Gysin discusses how the company’s Wave Glider SV3 collects information for hurricane intensity forecasting. He speaks on "Bloomberg West.” (Aug. 8-Bloomberg)

The doctor will now see you -- on a smartphone - San Jose Mercury News: "The proliferation of doctor consultation apps, which allow patients to see a doctor through their desktop, smartphone or tablet camera for a flat fee of $40 to $50, has outpaced state regulators still grappling to figure out how to regulate telemedicine. The Federation of State Medical Boards recently offered a model policy for states -- aimed at supporting the growth of telemedicine -- but states still have varying and often difficult-to-interpret rules, creating a vague regulatory framework that some experts say these companies have exploited. Currently, 19 states, including California, have regulations that allow doctors to practice medicine over video in some form, yet most apps say they operate in more than 40."

John McAfee at Def Con: Don’t Use Smartphones - Digits - WSJ: "... On the subjects of privacy and security, McAfee said smartphones are spying on American consumers, who don’t bother to read user agreements. “The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones,” he said. “I’m dumping all my smart phones.”... One attendee asked if he could download Mr. McAfee’s app without downloading the Google Play Store, which the questioner said he doesn’t trust on his phone. McAfee was unsure of the answer. “I don’t know much about technology anymore,” he said."


New York Times
In a Fight With Authors, Amazon Cites Orwell, but Not Quite Correctly
New York Times
Amazon quoted a 1936 essay by George Orwell in a web posting and .... Glenn Fleishman, a technology journalist, addressed Amazon directly via ...
Dispute Erupts Between Amazon and Disney - Wall Street Journal
Amazon, Hachette E-Book Pricing Battle Continues - Wall Street Journal


NBCNews.com
Simplifying the Bull: How Picasso Helps to Teach Apple's Style
New York Times
In a class at the company's internal training program, the so-called Apple ... Steven P. Jobs established Apple University as a way to inculcate ... the iPod and its iTunes software compatible with Microsoft's Windows system. ... The Google TV remote serves as a counterexample; it had so many buttons, ...


Reuters
White House Picks Engineer From Google To Fix Sites
New York Times
White House Picks Engineer From Google To Fix Sites ... even Mr. Obama's government — with a leadership that embraced technology to win ... often have when they spend their mornings on Facebook, Amazon or Expedia. ... Mr. Dickerson, who was part of the team that helped keep Google's servers ...


CNNMoney
How to send Facebook messages without the Messenger app
CNET
Not happy that Facebook now forces you to use its Messenger app? ... It reminds me of when Apple ripped podcast management out of the Music app ...

Busted: 5 Myths About Facebook's Messenger App - ABC News
Don't Freak Out About the Facebook Messenger App - Mashable


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Apple factory in Mesa ramps up sapphire production
azcentral.com
GT Advanced Technologies is ramping up sapphire glass production for Apple at its factory in Mesa. Here are seven products that typically use the ...

Google is Backing a $300 Million High-Speed Internet Cable: "Google has announced it is backing plans to build and operate a new high-speed internet Trans-Pacific cable system called “FASTER” by Q2 2016. In addition to Google, the $300 million project will be jointly managed by China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, KDDI, and SingTel, with NEC as the system supplier...."

If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, 'We're F**ked': Climatologist | Motherboard: ""We are 'sniffing' methane," Ulf Hedman, the science coordinator of the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, wrote in a post highlighted by Climate Change SOS. "We see the bubbles on video from the camera mounted on the CTD or the Multicorer. All analysis tells the signs. We are in a Mega flare. We see it in the water column, we read it above the surface, and we follow it up high into the sky with radars and lasers. We see it mixed in the air and carried away with the winds. Methane in the air."  "Methane is more than 20 times more potent than CO2 in trapping infrared as part of the natural greenhouse effect," Box said. "Methane getting to the surface—that's potent stuff." "

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