Time Warner Cable Business Class has broadened the reach of its fiber-optic network in North Carolina in order to offer schools systems a gigabit-per-second service. “We are very pleased to work with local school systems across North Carolina, making significant investments that ensure these institutions have the infrastructure to successfully prepare students for their technology […]
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Dopants Dramatically Alter Electronic Structure of Superconductor
Over the last quarter century, researchers have discovered a handful of materials that can be converted from magnetic insulators or metals into “superconductors” able to carry electrical current with no energy loss-an enormously promising idea for new types of zero-resistance electronics and energy-storage and transmission systems. At present, a key step to achieving superconductivity (in […]
Rogers nets $455M in Q4 on $3.26B in revenue
A record quarter for smartphone sales helped Rogers Communications exceed analysts’ expectations in the fourth quarter of 2012. The company reports a 3 percent gain in quarterly revenue to $3.26 billion and 88 cents in earnings per share – beating estimates of $3.19 billion and 72 cents per share. Rogers recorded quarterly net income of […]
Windstream returns to profit in Q4
Windstream on Tuesday posted fourth-quarter net income of $10.1 million, reversing a year-ago loss, as the company grew its broadband business. Windstream, which was spun off from Alltel in 2006 as a landline phone company, has been transforming its business to provide more lucrative broadband and data services. The company said Tuesday that 70 percent […]
Sprint LTE live in parts of San Fran, NYC, D.C.
Sprint is turning on LTE in some parts of San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and New York City. While these markets haven’t officially launched, Sprint spokeswoman Kathleen Dunleavy confirmed “more and more reports of Sprint customers discovering LTE on their 4G LTE devices in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and New York City.” According to Dunleavy, Sprint […]
Verizon finalizes 3 spectrum deals to rural telecoms
Verizon Wireless completed three sales of its 700 MHz A- and B-block spectrum licenses to rural telecoms based in Texas and Oklahoma. Nortex Communications, based in Muenster, Texas, picked up the Texas RSA 6-Jack 700 MHz lower B-block license covering a four-county area northwest of Dallas. Panhandle Telecommunication Systems, based in Guymon, Okla., acquired the […]
Former Insight exec Griffith joins Willner at Penthera
It was an offer that Melani Griffith couldn’t refuse. Yesterday, Griffith started her new job at Penthera Partners, which reunited her with former Insight Communications head honcho Michael Willner. Griffith was hired as Penthera’s executive vice president of business development. Willner is president and CEO of Penthera, after formerly serving as Insight’s CEO prior to […]
Kansas House approves telecom deregulation bill
Kansas would lessen its regulation of telecommunications but begin to phase out consumer-financed subsidies for universal landline service under a bill approved Monday by the state House. The House’s 118-1 vote sends the measure to the Senate, where it also is expected to have bipartisan support. The bill follows up on laws enacted within the […]
Picture-Perfect
Quick, efficient chip cleans up common flaws in amateur photographs. Your smartphone snapshots could be instantly converted into professional-looking photographs with just the touch of a button, thanks to a processor chip developed at MIT. The chip, built by a team at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratory, can perform tasks such as creating more realistic or […]
New, multifunctional electronic devices may soon be possible
15 February 2013 — For the first time, researchers have designed a special material interface that has been shown to add to and to improve the functioning of non-silicon-based electronic devices, such as those used in certain kinds of random access memory (RAM). According to Qi Li, a professor of physics at Penn State University […]