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Twitter Open-Sources Mobile Testing Software Clutch.io

Mike Isaac in Social on October 11, 2012 at 11:32 am PT

Attention, mobile wonks: Twitter is making it easier for you to test your homegrown iOS apps. The company announced Thursday that it will open-source Clutch.IO, the recently acquired code library that helps developers make, test and deploy iOS applications. Twitter acquired Clutch two months ago; open-sourcing the code allows others to continue to use Clutch after Twitter shuts down the service on Nov. 1.

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eBay Quietly Tests Local Same-Day Shipping Service in San Francisco

Mike Isaac in Commerce on August 5, 2012 at 1:44 pm PT

E-commerce giant eBay began testing a same-day delivery service on Sunday, quietly sending out invitations to San Francisco residents. Dubbed “eBay Now,” the mobile app-based service allows city residents to order items $25 and above from local businesses, and have the purchases delivered directly to their homes on the same day. The service, which was first noticed on Sunday by TechCrunch, is currently in its pilot phase, though it may roll out to more cities in the future.

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AT&T Races to Tout Speed-Test Results

Voices 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.

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Intel Cuts Ribbon on Billion-Dollar Plant in Vietnam

Voices in News on October 29, 2010 at 10:20 am PT

In Ho Chi Minh City today, Intel officially opened what CEO Paul Otellini called “the largest and most sophisticated assembly test facility in Intel’s global manufacturing network.” The $1 billion plant began cranking up in June, making chipsets for mobile devices. Just Tuesday, Otellini presided over the opening of another big Asian investment–a $2.5 billion semiconductor manufacturing plant in Dalian, China. In a pre-emptive defense against criticism for exporting jobs, the chip giant said last week it planned to invest between $6 billion and $8 billion on future generations of manufacturing technology in its U.S. facilities.