Posted Dec 04, 2011
Cable’s only real competition comes from Verizon’s FiOS fiber-optic service, which can provide speeds up to 150 megabits per second. But FiOS is available to only about 10 percent of households. AT&T’s U-verse, which has about 4 perc...
Posted Nov 25, 2011
Beeps and blinking lights are the constant chatter of a hospital intensive care unit, but at the I.C.U.’s in North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., the conversation has some unusual contributors. Two L.E.D. displays adorn the wall...
Posted Nov 17, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO – While politicians and tech leaders decry a lack of engineering talent in the USA, and college graduates struggle to find work, a growing number of tech companies overseas are swooping in and recruiting some of America's best an...
Posted Nov 11, 2011
China's online shopping market could reach 2 trillion RMB, or $15 billion, by 2015, which would surpass the United States', according to research by Boston Consulting Group.
The study found that within five years, most of today's online shoppers...
Posted Nov 09, 2011
To sign up some of the estimated 100 million Americans who are not online, the Federal Communications Commission and private providers are trying to make broadband Internet access both less expensive and more valuable.
On Wednesday, the F.C.C. ...
Posted Nov 09, 2011
The Federal Communications Commission and cable and computer firms will announce Wednesday a program to provide low-income homes with $10 monthly broadband Internet service and $150 computers.
The plan aims to solve one of the more vexing problems i...
Posted Nov 05, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO — Three times over the last two years, school officials from Little Falls, Minn., have escaped the winter cold for two-day trips to Silicon Valley. Their destination: the headquarters of Apple. In visits the officials described as in...
Posted Nov 04, 2011
NEW YORK -- AT&T says the deal to buy T-Mobile USA may take until the middle of next year to close, three months later than originally envisioned, as it fights antitrust regulators.
AT&T announced the $39 billion acquisition in March, saying...
Posted Nov 04, 2011
AT&T Inc. asked a judge to compel Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) to turn over documents regarding its plans to compete in the wireless phone industry after a decision is made on AT&T’s proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA Inc.
AT&T in a...
Posted Nov 03, 2011
Frank Radice, the former president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and now a media consultant, is a compulsive texter. But after racking up more than $1,000 in texting charges on a monthly mobile phone bill two years ago, he bega...
