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AT&T’s “GigaPower” all-fiber network has launched in parts of Austin, Texas, with a price of $70 per month for download speeds of 300Mbp. The $70 price is only available if you agree to see targeted ads from AT&T and its partners, however. Interestingly, AT&T labels the
Shopify has made its name and accumulated 80,000 businesses as customers by providing a simplified ecommerce and inventory system, but now it’s moving offline. The company is expected to announce a $100 million Series C funding round Thursday led by OMERS Ventures and Insight Venture Partners to pro
A group of researchers in Vienna have created an inexpensive drone that uses a smartphone as the processing unit. According to Annette Mossel, the creator of the project, using a smartphone in the design helps to cut costs and makes it easier to update the drone’s software. Researchers are usi
The first round of 300 beta Steam Machines and controllers ship out on Friday, December 13, Valve announced. Selected beta testers will be notified today around 5PM ET. These anointed ones will find a few games running on SteamOS in their libraries and badges on their Steam profiles marking them as
Though there are millions of truck drivers with smartphones, most of them live in a pen, paper and fax machine world when it comes to managing their driving records. KeepTruckin aims to change that. Fleet management may not sound like the sexiest industry in the world, but there’s no question that i
Consumers love being able to upgrade their smartphones every two years with affordable, subsidized pricing. US$199 for a brand new iPhone? Sure, sign me up. Some carriers like Sprint even offer early upgrades after 18 months, all in an effort to keep subscriber churn to a minimum. AT&T’s t
As the immediate aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster has passed, Japan is faced with another conundrum: Where to store thousands of tons of radioactive soil that have been harvested from around the region. This week, officials unveiled a $970 million plan to build a massive storage facility
South Korea has long been called the mecca of eSports. If the country’s parliament passes a new law that classifies online gaming as an “antisocial addiction” on par with drug use and alcohol, it could change the way the country looks at professional gaming. A law under consideration in South Korea&
Whatever else you might think about Steve Ballmer’s reign at Microsoft, there’s no doubt that he’s helped the company maintain its position as an absolute cash cow with a thriving enterprise software and services business. In an interview with Fortune, the outgoing Microsoft chief distills his philo
There has been a fair amount of methods that are being practised to make sure that patients do take their medication on time, all the time, but how about something more passive? Here is another pair of drug-eluting contact lenses that could pave the way for prolonged delivery of anti-glaucoma eye dr
In most other countries, if those books were still under copyright, the digitized versions (assuming publishers even allowed them to be made in the first place) would probably only be available in a specially constructed room deep in the basement of the National Library on a small screen, and with g
The switchoff of analogue TV has been long coming, but with digital spectrum awash in home-shopping channels and the ‘digital dividend’ falling short of mobile expectations, is it really the success we were led to believe it would be? When all the promised benefits of digital TV were bei
