9 posts and columns on score

Survey Sez: Consumers Still Miffed at Netflix, but Give Even Bigger Kiss to Amazon

in Commerce on December 27, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

The hits from the online video service’s missteps just keep coming!
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Leap Wireless Taking Cricket Nationwide With Best Buy, Other Retailers

in Mobile on September 21, 2011 at 10:07 pm PT

Cricket phones, including those with the company’s Muve Music subscription service, will hit Best Buy shelves this week, with additional national retailers to follow.

That Human Vs. Machine Practice Round of "Jeopardy" Didn't End the Way You Heard It Did

in Enterprise on February 14, 2011 at 1:37 pm PT

IBM’s Watson supercomputer didn’t win that much publicized practice game after all. A human did. This according to a draft of the final chapter of a forthcoming book on the matchup.

Turning a Tablet Into a Board Game

in The Digital Solution on January 4, 2011 at 4:04 pm PT

In the new Digital Solution column, Katie tests a game that successfully marries digital and analog games by using the first physical device to digitally interact with the Apple iPad.
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News Byte

AT&T Races to Tout Speed-Test Results

in News on November 22, 2010 at 4:25 pm PT

AT&T has some new ammunition to fire at anyone who casts aspersions on the speed and reliability of its wireless network. Nationwide testing by Global Wireless Solutions, covering more than 400 markets representing about 88 percent of the U.S. population, found AT&T’s average mobile broadband speeds to be tops–its unnamed “nearest competitor” averaging speeds that were 20 percent slower and its largest competitor (that would be Verizon) running 60 percent slower. The GWS tests also showed that 98.59 percent of voice calls connected over the AT&T network nationwide are completed without interruption–within one-tenth of one percentage point of the top score in that category.

Steve Jobs Has "Excellent Prognosis"

in News on June 24, 2009 at 3:30 am PT

Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently underwent a liver transplant and “has an excellent prognosis,” a Memphis, Tenn., hospital has confirmed. In a statement issued late Tuesday, Dr. James D. Eason, the chief of transplantation at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute, said that Jobs did in fact receive a new liver at his transplant facility and is now recovering well.
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Steve Jobs Has “Excellent Prognosis”

in News on June 24, 2009 at 3:30 am PT

Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently underwent a liver transplant and “has an excellent prognosis,” a Memphis, Tenn., hospital has confirmed. In a statement issued late Tuesday, Dr. James D. Eason, the chief of transplantation at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute, said that Jobs did in fact receive a new liver at his transplant facility and is now recovering well.
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Are Those Anti-Apple Microsoft Ads Actually Working?

in Media on May 19, 2009 at 3:45 am PT

The Web is full of armchair ad critics, particularly when it comes to spots from Apple and Microsoft. And the usual consensus from the chattering classes: Apple ads goooood. Microsoft ads baaaaaad. But Microsoft’s latest campaign, which features documentary-like tales of youngish people priced out by Apple, may actually be working. At least when it comes to youngish people’s perceptions of the two brands.
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