Dish Network Drops Pursuit of Sprint Women: Hot Topic at Cannes Ad Fest Google Clears the Way for Stock Split Solar Plane May Change Energy Use Free Video Messaging Comes to Skype A proposal by Dish Network to merge with Sprint Nextel has been pulled, paving the way for SoftBank Corp. to make final its acquisition of the wireless carrier in the weeks ahead. Clearwire's fate remains unclear. Advertisers still debate the best ways to market to women. Media firms are still trying to find the ideal forums to entertain and inform this gender. And companies have a lack of women in top positions. A shareholder lawsuit that blocked a long-delayed stock split has been resolved by Google, clearing the way for the Internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year. The plane parked outside the airport looks more like a giant exotic insect or maybe an outsized balsa wood toy airplane. And as it crisscrosses America, the spindly plane doesn't use a drop of fuel. Feature by feature, Microsoft's Skype is becoming a full communications suite. Skype's video messaging function, where users can leave videomail as well as voicemail, has moved out of beta into general release. FULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORY
Samsung Offers Tiny, Superfast PCIe SSDs for Ultrabooks Solid-state drives are continuing their march forward. On Monday, Samsung Electronics announced it has started to mass produce the first PCI-Express 3.0 SSDs for the new wave of Ultrabooks.
Amazon.com Joins 3D Printer Craze, Enabling Wide Availability Commercially available 3D printers have recently moved from being expensive hobbyist devices to being pricey but accessible consumer and manufacturing machines. And now, Amazon.com will sell 3D printers & supplies online.
New Facebook Data Center Uses All Home-Grown Servers Facebook has opened its new data center in Lulea, Sweden. The data center is a first in two ways: the first in Europe and the first to be equipped with all Facebook-designed, Open Compute servers.
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Texting Spammers Correlate Phone Users to Local Banks If you use an Internet-connected smartphone, touch tablet, e-reader, notebook, laptop or desktop computer you care about cybersecurity and online privacy. One topic: SMS text-messaging spam.
New Facebook Data Center Uses All Home-Grown Servers Facebook has opened its new data center in Lulea, Sweden. The data center is a first in two ways: the first in Europe and the first to be equipped with all Facebook-designed, Open Compute servers.
Cisco Telecom Router Ready for Internet Traffic Flood The Carrier Routing System-X unveiled by Cisco for the telecommunications industry is a 400 Gbps per slot system that can be expanded to nearly 1 petabit per second, enough to deal with the coming flood in demand.