T-Mobile has something to say about the launch yesterday of Verizon’s Share Everything data plans, calling the new offerings “costly, complicated and punitive.” Harry Thomas, director of segment marketing for T-Mobile, said in a blog post yesterday that the new plans “extend the old concept of shared minutes and messages.” On the ‘costly’ point, Thomas […]
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Southwest will try out live TV on 5 planes
Southwest Airlines plans to sell live television service on five planes and expand it to more aircraft by mid-July. The airline said Thursday that it would offer seven sports and news channels for passengers to watch on their own devices. Southwest said it will test prices from $3 to $8 during a trial period. Passengers […]
TDK-Lambda’s NVM175 power supplies meet latest medical approvals
TDK-Lambda’s NVM175 is now approved to IEC/EN 60601-1, ANSI/AAMI ES60601-1 and CAN/CSA-C22.2 No 60601-1-08 3rd Edition medical safety standards. This is in addition to the current approval to the 2nd Edition, ensuring full safety approval for medical equipment is maintained during the transition period from 2nd to 3rd Editions. Typical applications for the NVM175 range […]
Moloney exits Motorola; Fawaz takes helm at Home division
Motorola Mobility President Dan Moloney is leaving the company near the middle of next month, and former Charter Communications CTO Marwan Fawaz is now on board as executive vice president of the company’s Home division. “Dan has led the company through one of the most exciting periods in its 84-year history – and in the […]
ThinkAnalytics serves up recommendation engine to 70M customers
Think recommendation engineers are a fairly recent phenomena? Think again. London-based ThinkAnalytics first deployed its multi-platform personalized recommendation engine in 2006, and today it announced that it has surpassed 70 million licensed viewers across 16 countries, in eight languages. ThinkAnalytics CTO and founder Peter Docherty said his company uses multiple algorithms to proactively collect personalized […]
Bright House reels in multi-year services contract with Fla. school district
Bright House Networks has landed a multi-year services contract with Orange County Public Schools, which is the largest school district in Florida and the 10th-largest public school district in the nation. The contract calls for Bright House Networks to build a dedicated, private Metro Ethernet fiber network to connect all of Orange County Public Schools’ […]
TWC, Bright House subs get HBO Go on Kindle Fire
Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Insight Communications customers were slated to get HBO Go on their Kindle Fire tablets yesterday afternoon. TWC director of digital communications Jeff Simmermon wrote in a blog posting yesterday that the cable operator is adding Amazon’s Kindle Fire to it its list of platforms that it supports for […]
Sprint LTE to hit 5 cities July 15
Sprint’s LTE network will light up in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Kansas City, Kan., on July 15, the first five markets of its planned 10-city launch. The Wednesday announcement left out any mention of a launch in Baltimore, one of the LTE markets Sprint named in February. “We expect to have news on […]
Scientists develop spray-on battery
Scientists in the United States have developed a paint that can store and deliver electrical power just like a battery. Traditional lithium-ion batteries power most portable electronics. They are already pretty compact but limited to rectangular or cylindrical blocks. Researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas, have come up with a technique to break down […]
Rights group says Apple suppliers in China breaking labor laws
Apple Inc’s suppliers in China have violated local labor laws when they imposed excessive overtime and skimped on insurance, a New York-based labor rights group said. Apple and its suppliers such as Taiwanese tycoon Terry Gou’s Foxconn Technology Group have been the target of labor rights groups, which say the world’s most valuable technology company […]