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Could Commerce, Not Advertising, Emerge as Facebook's Primary Revenue Source?
Facebook might one day find commerce and payments its primary revenue driver, not ads.
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Will Facebook's "Sponsored Stories" Work?
Facebook's "sponsored stories" might be a strategic new form of advertising. But will it work?
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Is Comcast prioritizing traffic or not?
An engineer has conducted experiments that he says show Comcast is prioritizing video traffic, though Comcast says it only is tagging packets for billing purposes.
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Superstacks: How consumers trade convenience for choice
Welcome to the concept of the superstack -- which acts to circumvent the openness that the Internet and the digitization of content has enabled and once again lock consumers into a single platform for their content determined in part by the hardware they choose.
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Want to reinvent TV? Don’t forget the TV
The future of TV may not be about apps, second screens and over-the-top at all - but about new types of screens that fill entire walls and work together in a modular fashion. And the TV of the future may be a bit like your dog. (Read Full Article)
Isis mobile wallet adds AmEx cards in lead-up to launch
Isis, the mobile payment joint venture of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, has added American Express cards to its wallet. The news helps build more momentum for the Isis payment platform, which now has a broad array of payment cards that will work inside the mobile wallet.
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7 ways Comcast is killing the cable killers
We’re at a flashpoint in the evolution of television, and the battle lines are becoming more clear. What's also becoming clear is that Comcast is playing to win. Here are seven things the nation's largest cable company is doing to keep its pay TV customers.
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Can France’s Free keep its wireless revolution going?
The first official casualty reports emerged this week in Free Mobile’s price war against Frances’ mobile powers that be. Orange reported a 615,000 subscriber loss. But while people are flocking to Free in droves there are signs of trouble ahead for the upstart operator. (Read Full Article)
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Report: 2/3 of top U.S. carrier sales in Q1 were iPhones
During the first three months of 2012, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint collectively sold 9 million iPhones. Altogether, those same three carriers sold 13.5 million smartphones, which means that for every three smartphones they sold, two of them were iPhones.
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How Apple will become a mobile carrier
Wireless industry veteran Whitey Bluestein writes that it isn't a question of if Apple will offer its own mobile service. It's merely a question of when. Apple has all of the infrastructure and ambition. And most importantly it has leverage over the operators.
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A brief history of Microsoft’s e-reader efforts
Although Microsoft invested $300 million in a Barnes & Noble spin-off on Monday, this isn't the first time Microsoft played the e-book game. Typical for the company, it often has great ideas, but it errs on the timing: Microsoft debuted e-book software back in 2000!
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Why U.S. Broadband isn't "Number One"
The United States never will rank in the top-10 globally on broadband or any other important measure of communications adoption. Keep in mind that at no time did the United States every rank in the top-10 on any list of landline voice penetration, either. Population density and a continent-sized region to cover are among the primary reasons.
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Smart Phones will be More Widely Used than PCs: Does it Matter?
Phones are increasingly replacing desktops and laptops as the primary computing device in our digital lifestyle. That might have different implications for users in many global markets. In developed regions, it might simply mean that users access different devices in different settings, to use different apps.
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Apple’s inevitable path to a post-PC era
As forward-thinking as Apple is, perhaps the company hasn't forged a new path at all. Through a technique of observe, perfect and discard, Apple has been heading for some time in one direction -- along the pre-defined path into the era of ubiquitous computing.
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Enterprise 2.0: Freemium first, enterprise second (Part 1 of 3)
Enterprise 2.0 is one of the best opportunities in the technology market. And forward-looking companies are realizing that they need to attract the user, not the IT department. Scott Irwin of Rembrandt Venture Partners breaks down the key components to an effective freemium go-to-market effort.
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Clearwire targets 31 cities for LTE as WiMAX takes a beating
Clearwire said today it would roll out LTE in 31 markets in the first half 2013, starting with New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle. Though it didn’t detail any more launch cities, it’s not too hard to guess them.
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As Sprint turns to LTE, WiMAX becomes its prepaid 4G network
Sprint doesn’t plan to dump WiMAX entirely after it takes its LTE live this summer. Instead, it plans to reposition the older 4G technology as the network for its prepaid customers. Sprint will begin selling WiMAX devices next quarter under the Boost and Virgin brands.
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T-Mobile is buying neither Verizon’s story, nor its spectrum
Verizon hasn’t exactly done a bang-up job selling its critics on the merits of its 4G spectrum consolidation plans. T-Mobile would be a prime candidate to buy up Verizon's extra 700 MHz airwaves, but it's not interested and wants the FCC to kill the Verizon-cable deal. (Read Full Article)
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How to Become a Platform
Software is becoming the primary means for end user interaction and transactions. The new “place” of business is on the buyer’s device, and goods and services must be available where and when their buyers want them. But there are "apps" and there are "platforms." Some would argue that greater financial success is possible when an app becomes a platform. But what is required?
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Worried you’ll outgrow the cloud? You’re not alone.
If you think about it, Netflix's metamorphosis into a company that runs its infrastructure completely atop cloud-based resources is truly remarkable. For many companies, such as site-optimization and CDN provider Yottaa, the bigger they get, the harder it is to justify the cloud's cost and performance.
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At Verizon, DSL slows but FiOS Internet booms
When you think of Verizon these days it is all about LTE, spectrum heists and the iPhone. There is rest of the phone company that is doing what it does - sell voice, video and data center services. And of the lot, FiOS broadband is booming.
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How OpenFlow and SDNs can solve consumers’ broadband woes
A project out of Georgia Tech University using the OpenFlow protocol could change the way consumers control their home network -- or the way ISPs meter customers. In this video interview Nick Feamster of Georgia Tech explains the project and where people can download it. (Read Full Article)
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Solving the LTE Puzzle: Comparing LTE Performance
We’re testing carrier coverage to give consumers a real-world look at mobile data performance. As part of this process, we measured performances across multiple LTE markets during the first quarter and have put together a head-to-head comparison of AT&T and Verizon's LTE networks.
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