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How T-Mobile Changed The Wireless Industry For The Better

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How T-Mobile Changed The Wireless Industry For The Better By Jessica Oaks. Anyone who has switched contracts from AT&T or Verizon to T-Mobile knows that the wireless service provider does things its own way. The basic premise is simple: Why not let customers purchase wireless service outside of a contract?

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Acquires Pryte, Instagram 6.0, Vine Comes To Xbox One

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Facebook acquires mobile data plan firm Pryte – Facebook’s newest acquisition plans involve Pryte, a Finnish company that makes it easier for mobile phone users without wireless data plans to use wireless internet apps; Facebook is acquiring Pryte’s team, while the actual service hadn’t even publicly launched yet (re/code).

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Social Media Sites Rank Lowest For Customer Satisfaction

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The ACSI website scores are based on more than 25,000 interviews, and encompass user experience with websites of more than 200 companies within the 33 industry categories. Wireless Telephone Service 77. Are you surprised that social media websites ranked so low among the industries surveyed? Consumer Shipping 85. Personal Computers 79.

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How Do Emerging Economies Compare In Terms of Internet Access?

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In 2002, he joined up with the government in his native Afghanistan to set up the Afghan Wireless Communication Company. It has become one of the leading players in Internet and mobile phone provision in a country that was at one time largely cut off from the outside world, owing to the prevalence of conflict and political unrest.

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How Appification Is Transforming The Internet

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In 2013, just 7 percent of companies had implemented a mobile app strategy, and 51 percent of companies had no plans to develop one, a FeedHenry survey found. Soon, the company plans to roll out a separate mobile first index which will serve mobile users different results than desktop users, presumably including app content.

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Apple Debuts iBeacon Location Technology in U.S. Stores

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Transmission through Bluetooth wireless technology gives your phone precise information about where you are in the store, while GPS transmitters don’t work well indoors and don’t distinguish well between locations only a few feet apart. How is iBeacon different than using GPS for geo-location?

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Five Digital Transformation Trends In 2021

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The main goal of such changes is to improve the efficiency of the company and its viability over the long term. Such technologies connect disparate automated processes of the company “on top” of existing IT systems, creating a single digital ecosystem. Big Data, AI, and Machine Learning.

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