TECHNOLOGY TUESDAY IN-DEPTH: Top 100 Breaking News & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share | 7/22
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So the Kinectless Xbox One has arrived, and you're now left wondering if the motion sensor from your launch-era system will ever be useful for more than starting games and taking orders from Aaron Paul. Thankfully, it should for at least...
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rtoz (2530056) writes Researchers at MIT have developed a new spongelike material structure which can use 85% of incoming solar energy for converting water into steam. This spongelike structure has a layer of graphite flakes and an under...
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Samsung can’t resist throwing shade at Apple – even with devices that don’t actually exist yet. The Korean smartphone maker has a new video on its official YouTube account that digs into the Mac maker about rumors...
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Storing your personal documents, photos and anything else in the cloud is a notion that has made its way into mainstream awareness and can no longer be considered the preserve of ‘techies’. And if there’s one thing that everyone knows ab...
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EdgeWave, which sells infsecurity software and services, has raised $11 million in equity and debt financing to boost sales and marketing efforts for its technology. The company, originally financed through a special purpose acquis...
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We interview Marco Minnemann about his newest solo album EEPS, HRA formats, Joe Satriani, and what it’s like to record every instrument on your album. The post In the studio, Joe Satriani’s drum wizard plays HD alchemy with layers ...
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SimpleReach, a startup that helps marketers and publishers measure the effectiveness of their content and ads, is announcing that it has raised $9 million in Series A funding. The company says it can not only tell customers how wel...
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My $1,449 Chromebook Pixel just got a little more useful and so too did the $299 Acer Chromebook C720P. The latest Stable channel software update adds support for pinch-to-zoom in Chrome OS. That means any touchscreen Chromebook now has ...
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As part of its ongoing experiments with new and interesting add-on services, Uber is trialing a WiFi service in its cars, kicking off initially in Philadelphia. The aptly-titled uberWiFi service does exactly what it says on the box, givi...
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Nvidia's new Shield is dropping today and the updated tablet packs a number of high-end features. Will gamers bite, considering the increased price tag but better use cases?
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Move over Lockitron, there’s a new smart lock contender aiming to connect your door handles to the Internet so that you can lock and unlock remotely, send digital keys to friends and tradespeople (via the companion app), keep...
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TechCrunch : Nvidia's Shield Tablet And Shield Controller Look To Offer No-Compromise Mobile Gaming — The Nvidia Shield was a first attempt by graphics chip- and card-maker Nvidia, but it gave the company a taste for b...
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Following its launch for iPad back in October, Cannonball garnered quite a bit of fanfare for its slick email client that sifts out the important messages you don’t want to miss from all those coupons, subscriptions and newsletters. And ...
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GE's got a new idea for how to make a key part for a lower cost fuel cell, and its using a new business model to launch it commercially. GE’s got a new in-house fuel cell startup originally published by Gigaom , © copyright 20...
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LinkedIn is exploring location updates reminiscent of Foursquare and Sonar, according to LinkedIn designers Mauroof Ahmed and Moses Ting. These experiments follow a series of moves from LinkedIn designed to boost engagement, including th...
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The Nvidia Shield was a first attempt by graphics chip- and card-maker Nvidia, but it gave the company a taste for building gadgets that wouldn’t go away, so now they’re back with the Shield Tablet, a gaming monster tha...
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University of Maryland researchers used a laser to create tubes of air that resemble fiber optic cables, negating the need for laying traditional infrastructure. They are working on increasing the range they can send a signal to 150 feet...
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Nvidia's new tablet can output console-level graphics, thanks to its 192-core Tegra K1 chip. But it also represents a solid tablet option for non-gamers. The Nvidia Shield is a high-powered tablet optimized for gaming originally publishe...
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Nvidia also launches Shield Controller for tablet.
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The $299 tablet and $59 controller are now separated, but still tightly bound.
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In January 2013, NVIDIA unveiled its first end-to-end consumer product: NVIDIA Shield. In our review, I wrote, "NVIDIA Shield is a truly strange device" One year later, that statement stands -- only now it applies to NVIDIA's second cons...
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Apple denied the accusation that it included backdoor services in iOS that could be exploited by law enforcement and other government agencies in order to obtain personal data from iOS devices. The denial statement was provided to Financ...
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Last year, chip-maker Nvidia entered the hardware dojo with Shield, a weird but interesting Android gaming machine . Its successor has arrived, taking a form that's a little more familiar. This is the Shield tablet, the first Android tab...
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Launched by Jimmy Wales way back in 2006, Wikia may not be as well-known as its not-for-profit big brother Wikipedia. But it still attracts north of 110 million unique visitors per month around the world, meaning it’s very much a colossa...
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UBS this week was the latest investment firm to increase its price target for shares of Apple, with a new projection of $115 ahead of this afternoon's June quarter earnings report.
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When the AWS #cloudfather speaks, everyone listens. At the way-past-sold-out AWS NYC Summit, Amazon’s CTO Werner Volgels put a new spotlight on logs and log file management. If Amazon is interested in aggregating logs to extract insights...
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New submitter Tmackiller writes with an excerpt from VG247.com: The British government has decriminalised online video game, music and movie piracy, scrapping fuller punishment plans after branding them unworkable. Starting in 2015, pers...
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Today's Amazon Gold Box deal is a brand new Kindle Fire HDX 7" with your choice of Verizon or AT&T LTE for $229. That's $100 off retail price, nearly $50 off the lowest price ever, and the same price as a Wi-Fi-only model. Read m...
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Apple has made its largest-yet initial order for iPhones, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The order encompasses devices with both 4.7- and 5.5-inch displays, echoing rumors we’ve been hearing for a whi...
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Google Views gives anyone the chance to share their own panoramic, 360-degree Photo Spheres with the world. The platform has now been updated with comments and +1s, the latter of which is a ‘like’ equivalent for Google+, so people can ea...
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The OnePlus One's a handsome little devil as is, but there's always room to accessorize. Though you're probably still waiting on the actual handset to turn up, OnePlus has announced the phone's first "SwapStyle" cover will arrive at the ...
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Apple is asking suppliers for a record first production of its new iPhone, says the WSJ. While last year's initial production run of iPhone 5s and 5c phones was in the 50 to 60 million range, Apple wants nearly 80 million bigger iPhones....
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This morning the folks over at AppleInsider discovered that Apple was granted a patent today for the iTime , which can only be described as a device-connected smartwatch that offers advanced functionality like arm and wrist gestures, as ...
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Photographer David de los Santos used only a Fujifilm bridge camera, two lights, and a black backdrop to create this beautiful time-lapse video of flowers blooming. The post Watch flowers reveal their hidden beauty in this time-lapse vid...
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According to the supply chain Apple uses to manufacture its devices, two things have been confirmed today. The first is that the iPhone 6 is definitely getting not one, but two larger display […]
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Architects Pitman Tozer have built a 7-story housing block in Mint Street, east London, for Peabody housing that combines market-rate and subsidized apartments in a modern, stylish, efficient building located only 12 meters (40 ft) from ...
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Verizon may not be adding as many smartphones to its network as it used to, but at least it has new tablet connections thriving on its LTE network. The company added 1.15 million contracted LTE tablet connections during the second quarte...
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Facebook's second quarter included a surprise scandal that raised concerns about how powerful it can be and what we give up to use the network.
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The 4G-capable Android device may take its design cue from Apple's smartphone but it adds its own flourish with a swappable rear cover and a 5-inch display.
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The latest Android flagship from the Chinese smartphone maker seems to be inspired by Apple's designs.
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Roger Cheng / CNET : Verizon tops Q2 expectations as tablet demand drives growth — The company added 1.15 million new tablets in the period, offsetting a slowdown in smartphone growth. — Verizon CEO L...
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Even as cable giant Comcast tries to get bigger by absorbing Time Warner Cable, its own revenue grew in the last quarter to $16.8 billion, up 3.5 percent from last year, and net income hit $1.99 billion. The most important number for a s...
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The company adds 1.15 million new tablets in the period, offsetting a slowdown in smartphone growth.
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New submitter bnortman (922608) was the first to write in with word of "a new research paper discussing a new form of user fingerprinting and tracking for the web using the HTML 5 <canvas> ." globaljustin adds more from an article ...
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Tainted peanut butter, rotten eggs, bacteria-ridden fruits and vegetables, and chemically compromised merchandise are literally the spoils of the globalization of industry, and the bane of the big businesses that sell most people t...
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Faced with a stubborn activist investor group, EMC CEO and Chairman Joe Tucci may have a big fight on his hands. EMC, with Elliott Management at the door, braces for a showdown originally published by Gigaom , © copyright 2014. Cont...
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Nvidia wants to bring console-style gaming to tablets with its latest 8-inch Shield Tablet, on which users will be able to play high-definition Android and PC games.
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Behold, the future of personal mobility devices: The Honda Uni-Cub. The Uni-Cub, which is self-balancing and has zero turning radius, is essentially a sit-on Segway without any handlebars. Most importantly, the Uni-Cub is much smaller an...
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Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi released its fourth-generation smartphone today and the Mi 4 is impressive — largely because the company has finally used metal for the frame of its phone, getting rid of the plasticky feel that was...
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Even with the planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope now partially disabled due to a busted reaction wheel, astronomers are still hard at work looking for new exoplanets. Each time a new rocky object is […]
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Edward Snowden has been given many titles: Whistleblower. Traitor. Asylum-seeker. Now, the fugitive National Security Agency contractor appears to have found a new role: Product pitchman. In recent interviews and speeches at tech confere...
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We have all been living in the scroll culture for some time now. There is so much content available online for consumption that our brains can't hold it all in or process it at once. We scroll through data and content at rapid speed usin...
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The company says its Big Cloud Fabric will accelerate the adoption of hyperscale networking technologies.
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(Reuters) - United Technologies Corp posted an 8 percent increase in quarterly profit, topping estimates, as sales of its elevators and aircraft parts helped offset a sluggish performance in its Pratt & Whitney engine business.
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Emoji are taking over the world. If we wanted to write that in pithy little caricatures, we'd probably include that evil image of two ballerinas or everyone's favorite pile of poop next to a tiny globe, followed by some sort of violent l...
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Entrepreneurship goes beyond Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Garrett Camp , and it embodies something bigger than Twitter and WhatsApp. Entrepreneurship is a mindset, an attitude, and a lifestyle adopted by people who aren't satisfied wi...
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In an ironic twist, Apple and Samsung, bitter patent foes, find themselves on the same side of a battle against Enterprise Systems Technologies, a patent troll.
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The entrepreneur is being taken to court for alleged copyright infringement by a record label whose own artist Kaskade has come forward to defend her.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Xiaomi launched its flagship Mi 4 smartphone at a glitzy event in Beijing, where the Chinese budget handset maker's chief executive sought to challenge larger U.S. rival Apple Inc.
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Appls' new smartwatch design could be a detachable device that plugs into an electronic wristband, details patent designs reveal Continue reading...
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Ireland's data protection watchdog criticises the government for a 'cock-up' over a genealogy site that leaked personal information
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Shelved Black Hat presentation would have explained why you don't have to be the NSA to break Tor Continue reading...
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(Reuters) - Lions Gate Entertainment Corp will provide extra content through apps for dystopian thriller "Divergent" and other films to Comcast Corp customers who purchase digital versions of the film through Xfinity On Demand, the compa...
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Co-authored by Dan Faggella, an entrepreneur and writer with a masters degree in Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania Ask most inventors why their creating something new, and you'll often hear them speak to "making the...
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A Facebook page created to criticize people about their weight has sparked controversy. CNN affiliate KOVR reports.
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The town of Argleton, England doesn't exist... except on Google Maps. The fake village caused a media blizzard back in 2009, when conspiracy theorists noticed it on Google Maps, right near the real British town of Aughton. Google respond...
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Many companies don't do all they should to secure the company from a potentially hostile former employee. Without the right tools it can be hard.
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After a few years of slow or negative growth the European IT economy is slowly recovering and the UK is leading the way.
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I must confess I have hit my limit with technology. While finishing The Circle by Dave Eggers on my Nook, I updated my Facebook fan page linked to important stuff. Then I sent out a Constant Contact newsletter asking people to "like," fo...
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Two MPs say they will seek a judicial review of emergency legislation on phone and internet data.
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I bought an LG G Watch to replace my year-old Pebble. Turns out, I'll be keeping the Pebble...
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A presentation on a low-budget method to unmask users of a popular online privacy tool, Tor, will no longer go ahead at the Black Hat security conference early next month. The talk was nixed by the legal counsel with Carnegie Mellon's So...
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The biggest takeaway from Verizon's results was that 4G LTE tablet connections are accelerating.
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Apple is ordering a combined 70 to 80 million units of two big-screen versions of its next iPhone, its largest initial production to date, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The company is anticipating large demand for the...
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China's fast-growing Xiaomi unveils a new flagship handset and wristband - both of which are cheaper than similar models from other brands.
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Three stealthy tracking mechanisms designed to avoid weaknesses in browser cookies pose potential privacy risks to Internet users, a new research paper has concluded.
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The Italian data protection watchdog has brought in new regulations that will see Google forced to change how it collects, handles, and stores users' data.
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Yahoo has reached an agreement to acquire Flurry, a mobile analytics company, as part of a push to grow its advertising revenue within its mobile products. Flurry provides tools that help developers and publishers learn more about who's ...
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Netflix and Amazon disrupt how shows are made
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A cyber-war is being waged alongside the conflict involving Isis in Iraq, suggests research by security firms.
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New dock adds more USB ports ahead of shipping in August.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital privacy rights group, has released a downloadable plug-in for Chrome and Firefox designed to stop third parties from tracking people's Web browsing. The tool, Privacy Badger, is in beta and c...
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Level 3 had its say on how Verizon was slowing Netflix videos, and now Verizon is firing back. At the same time, Netflix lashed out at ISPs for slowing its traffic.
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Main memory is all the same. But why? All data is not created equal, so why is memory? Another reason the cloud is winning.
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Vodafone UK is inviting rural communities to apply for its Sure Signal technology, to boost their 3G signal
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple, once a can't-miss stock, is finding it tough to persuade portfolio managers to come back into the fold.
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Aphid is bringing embeddable, cross-platform scripting to the .Net world.
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Social network completes deal announced in March, so what does the future hold for its virtual reality division? Continue reading...
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Kevin Spacey's series House of Cards is a prime example of how the broadcasting world is changing. But will a world of on demand TV be devoid of passion and personality. BBC Newsnight's David Grossman reports.
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Those trying to decide on a tablet will find choosing the iPad (either size) to be a lower risk over Android.
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Britons say the ability to contact the emergency services, keep in touch with family and friends, or access information, education and entertainment are all among "essential" services
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Apple is showing confidence in the new iPhone by ordering 70-80 million of them.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will crack down on smartphone apps featuring pornography and obscene content, the government said on Tuesday, the latest move in an official campaign to 'clean the Internet'.
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Apple has introduced a new tips app to teach new users how to master iPhones and iPads, so is this a sign that instruction manuals are set to return? Continue reading...
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Google is working with the Barbican and interactive artists to teach children how to code creatively
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Payments platform Stripe makes Australia its fifth international launch Continue reading...
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The company has ordered 80m handsets for the launch of the new iPhone this year, according a leak from the supply chain Continue reading...
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According to Verizon, the mass adoption of tech which tracks our location and changes our environment as a result is far closer than we think.
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The country's long-awaited 4G spectrum auction will go ahead later this year, but mobile companies can use the spectrum for now.
