Sprint Loses More Customers Than Estimated, Will Cut 2K Jobs: Video - Bloomberg: (Allow video to load after clicking play or go to link above) 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)
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 ...
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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Kedrosky: Facebook Can't Be Trusted: Video - Bloomberg: (Allow video to load after clicking play or go to link above) Bloomberg Contributing Editor Paul Kedrosky discusses the risks of oversharing information on social media as Facebook is caught manipulating users’ newsfeeds as part of a study. He speaks on “Market Makers.” (Bloomberg July 3) New Horizons team earns Hubble time for KBO search The Space Reporter A two-week trial period in which members of NASA's New Horizons mission team were granted use of the Hubble Space Telescope to search for Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) the spacecraft could visit after Pluto resulted in the discovery of two tiny nearby KBOs. Explorer lives undersea for 31 days in groundbreaking mission RTE.ie The grandson of famed underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau, Fabien Cousteau, has lived undersea for more than one month, breaking his grandfather's record by one day. Cousteau has been living in the Aquarius lab off the Florida Keys for 31 days to ... Google Take-Down Notice to BBC Stirs Confusion Wall Street Journal Former Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal, shown here in 2007, is the subject of a BBC post affected by "right-to-be-forgotten" rules. Bloomberg News. A notice from Google Inc. GOOGL +0.39% Google Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq $593.08 +2.30 +0.39% July 3, 2014 ... FTC suing T-Mobile for bogus billing Maine News On Tuesday, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) revealed that it is filing a lawsuit - in a federal court in Seattle - against wireless carrier T-Mobile. In the one-of-its-kind case against T-Mobile, the FTC has accused the carrier of bogus billing to its ... Facebook experiment becomes a debate over power and consent Los Angeles Times When Facebook performed an experiment to see if it could secretly affect users' emotions, were you really surprised? Academics were galled, knowing they would need explicit permission from research subjects and strict ethical oversight to perform such an ... Found: Earth-like planet in two-sun system. Are there more? [VIDEO] Los Angeles Times An artist's rendering of a newly discovered frozen planet orbiting one star of a binary star system 3,000 light-years from Earth. An artist's rendering of a newly discovered frozen planet orbiting one star of a binary star system 3,000 light-years from Earth. Archaeopteryx had feathers before flight but why? Tech Times Feathered dinosaurs developed the body covering before Archaeopteryx, but a new specimen of the fossil could reveal the purpose of feathers before flight. (Photo : H. Tischlinger). Archaeopteryx is the most famous of the flying dinosaurs, and a new ... NASA finalizes $2.8 billion Boeing contract for SLS rocket stage CBS News NASA has finalized a $2.8 billion contract with Boeing for development of avionics systems and the 20-story-tall first stage of the agency's planned Space Launch System rocket, a gargantuan booster intended to propel astronauts on missions beyond the ... Untrasound For Baby Stars - Determining Age By Sound Waves Science 2.0 Acoustic vibrations – sound waves – are produced by radiation pressure inside stars. While physicists have long posited that young stars vibrate differently than older stars, a new study says it is the first to confirm these predications using concrete data from ...
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Paul Saffo, managing director at Discern Analytics, said: "The pressures to balkanize the global Internet will continue and create new uncertainties. Government will become more skilled at blocking access to unwelcome sites." (source infra) Researchers asked 1,400 experts to describe the biggest threats to the Web. Here’s what they said. - The Washington Post: "..."It is very possible we will see the principle of net neutrality undermined," said P.J. Rey, a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Maryland. "In a political paradigm where money equals political speech so much hinges on how much ISPs and content providers are willing and able to spend on defending their competing interests. Unfortunately, the interests of everyday users count for very little."" Microsoft slates critical IE, Windows patches for Tuesday Computerworld Computerworld - Microsoft today said it will ship six security updates to customers next week, patching all versions of Internet Explorer (IE) and nearly ...
Apple poaches another luxury executive as iWatch nears Chicago Tribune It is in a race against Samsung Electronics and Google to turn computers into wearable fashion and must-have items as smartphones, increasingly ...
Microsoft fitness band rumour: Another way to sell services to Android users? ZDNet According to a report by Microsoft watcher Paul Thurrott, this autumn the company will ... It's not surprising that Microsoft is looking at the wearables market — Google has certainly been ... And, of course, Apple is still yet to release anything you can wear on your wrist (well, not since .... Facebook Activity ...
T-Mobile Sued for Adding Bogus Charges to Bills: Video - Bloomberg: (Allow video to load after clicking play or go to link above) T-Mobile US Inc. was sued by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over claims the wireless carrier placed unauthorized third-party charges on customer bills. Bloomberg’s Yang Yang reports on “In The Loop.” (Source: Bloomberg July 2, 2014) FTC probably a little late -- it was a problem, a year ago -- FTC: T-Mobile knowingly added bogus charges to bills: "..."It's wrong for a company like T-Mobile to profit from scams against its customers when there were clear warning signs the charges it was imposing were fraudulent," said FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez in a statement. "The FTC's goal is to ensure that T-Mobile repays all its customers for these crammed charges."" DailyTech - FTC Calls Out T-Mobile for Fraudulent Charges on Phone Bills, CEO Lambasts Claims: "...T-Mobile CEO John Legere has since responded to the FTC complaint, saying that it is "unfounded and without merit." Here's Legere's full statement: We have seen the complaint filed today by the FTC and find it to be unfounded and without merit. In fact T-Mobile stopped billing for these Premium SMS services last year and launched a proactive program to provide full refunds for any customer that feels that they were charged for something they did not want. T-Mobile is fighting harder than any of the carriers to change the way the wireless industry operates and we are disappointed that the FTC has chosen to file this action against the most pro-consumer company in the industry rather than the real bad actors..." Famed investor Tim Draper wins auction of Silk Road’s 29,655 bitcoins | Ars Technica: "A relatively unknown Silicon Valley Bitcoin startup named Vaurum announced that one of its primary investors, Tim Draper, has won the government auction of an enormous trove of 29,655 bitcoins seized from Silk Road—currently worth over $19 million. “Bitcoin frees people from trying to operate in a modern market economy with weak currencies,” Draper, a founding partner at the well-known venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), said in a statement posted by Varurum on Wednesday morning. DFJ manages over $7 billion in global investments and was an early funder of Hotmail, Skype, Tesla Motors, and the Pebble watch. Vaurum said in its statement that it will partner with Draper to “leverage the pool of [around] 30,000 bitcoins as a liquidity source” as a way to develop trading platforms in “developing economies.”..." Google's Latest Buy Is Full of Hits ABC News Google's latest acquisition is already a hit. The search giant announced today that it had scooped up Songza, a music streaming and curation service.
Amazon Defends Its Stance Against Hachette Wall Street Journal In its standoff with Hachette, Amazon wants a larger share of e-book ... The Justice Department in 2012 brought a civil antitrust lawsuit against five major publishers and Apple Inc., ...
Amazon Resisting FTC On In-App Purchases By Children Wall Street Journal In a letter to the FTC Tuesday, Amazon said it was prepared to "defend our ... He said Amazon's app store included "prominent notice of in-app ... and has updated its app store to conform to the standards the FTC set for Apple. ... App stores, such as those operated by Amazon, Apple and Google Inc., ...
Microsoft sides with Qualcomm in showdown over connected home Reuters Microsoft on Tuesday joined 50 other members in the AllSeen Alliance, including ... AppleInc, known for strictly controlling how other companies' products interact with its own, ... Last week, Google said it partnered with Mercedes-Benz, Whirlpool Corp and light bulb ...
Amazon Strikes Back With Lower Cost Instances InformationWeek Amazon Web Services has introduced a lower cost, general-purpose instance type for users who want both a modest CPU and also an ability to burst ...
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Google in Deal for Songza, a Music Playlist Service New York Times In a sign of growing consolidation in the digital music business, Google announced on Tuesday that it had bought Songza, a three-year-old app that competes with Pandora and others in making customized playlists of recommended songs. The price was not ...
ray turns out to one of world's deepest divers New Zealand Herald A ray known for basking on the ocean surface has turned out to be one of the natural world's deepest divers, able to forage at submarine-crushing depths, scientists said this week. Researchers attached data recorders to 15 Chilean devil rays (Latin name ...
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