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Articles tagged with: Boston
Scientists grow 'nanonets' able to snare added energy transfer
Using two abundant and relatively inexpensive elements, boston College chemists have produced nanonets, a flexible webbing of nano-scale wires that multiplies surface area critical to improving the performance of the wires in electronics and energy applications. more
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MetroPCS Subscriber Growth Slows Markedly in 2Q
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- MetroPCS Communications saw a 19% increase in net subscriber additions in the second quarter, but the growth failed to meet Wall Street's lofty expectations. more
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India's Mobile VAS Industry to Grow 50% Annually Through 2009
..he report (32 pages, pdf file) for free from the Boston Analytics website. more
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UPDATE: Telecom Italia Names Senior Management Team
(Adds Mediobanca's confirmation, share reaction, background) more
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Project-a-Phone Launches Image Capture and Display System
Project-a-Phone has launched a lower cost version of its cellphone display projector. The ICD-1300 is the first Project-a-Phone model whose hardware is Macintosh compatible. more
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Indian Firm Buys Boston Communications
India's Megasoft has announced plans to buy the Prepay billing vendor, boston Communications Group (bcgi) for US$65 million. The Board of Directors of Megasoft and bcgi have unanimously approved the agreement. more
Related Tags: prepay, chief-financial-officer
Anon SMS for Sending Crime Tips to the Police
In collaboration with the City of boston and the boston Police Department, Hill Holliday has announced the unveiling of an anonymous text message tip line for law enforcement in boston. more
Related Tags: mobile-messaging, text-messaging, text-messages, police, text-message
Verizon Speeds Up its CDMA Network
The USA based Verizon Wireless is launching its next network upgrade, with a CDMA 1x Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A (Rev. A) platform. The network enhancements will launch initially in Mass., including boston and its suburbs, the Richmond and Hampton Roads, Va. areas, Chicago and its suburbs and including Gary, Ind., Salt Lake City and other cities in Utah, as well as in Florida throughout the state's entire existing area of Verizon Wireless' wireless broadband network. more
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More US Households Abandoning the Landline
More and more USA households are dropping their landlines and opting to go completely wireless. According to Telephia, the largest provider of consumer research to the communications and new media markets, households in Detroit and Minneapolis-St. Paul have the highest rate of wireless substitution among the 20 largest cities in the country. Detroit and Minneapolis-St. Paul posted household wireless substitution rates of 19 and 15.2 percent, respectively. The Tampa metropolitan area secured a 15.1 percent rate, representing nearly 177,000 households. Nearly 219,000 (14.3%) households in Atlanta and 220,000 (13.6%) households in Washington D.C. cut the cord. Rounding out the top 10 were Phoenix , Seattle , Denver , boston and Los Angeles . more
Related Tags: seattle, atlanta, san-francisco
Boston Communications CEO Steps Down Amid Stock-Options Probe
boston (AP)--boston Communications Group (BCGI) said Thursday that three senior managers - including its top executive - will step down immediately, the latest executive departures as scrutiny of stock options practices at more than 100 companies leads to corporate housecleaning. more
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