Featured Report: 10 Types of Tablet Users That Drive Us Nuts

CIO Mobile
Nov,14,2012
by: Al Sacco
Tablet PCs are valuable devices that can simplify and enhance our lives. But they also bring out the worst in some people. Here's a list of 10 stereotypical tablet users that amuse, annoy and frustrate us to no end. A couple of years ago, as smartphone mania started gripping the nation—and the world—I wrote a tongue-in-cheek story that spotlighted the funny and annoying ways people use their smartphones. Today, smartphones are nearly ubiquitous, and tablet PCs are the new craze. With tablets come a whole new set of strange, silly and often aggravating gadget-toting characters. Here are the most common culprits.
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This Week's Wireless Industry News

Fierce Wireless
Dish blasts FCC's rules for its AWS-4 spectrum
Nov,20,2012
by: Mike Dano
The FCC is moving forward with rules that will allow Dish Network to build an LTE Advanced mobile network in its MSS spectrum. However, the agency's proposal will include technical rules that could affect up to 5 MHz of Dish's spectrum. In response, Dish blasted the agency's proposal as "significantly flawed." Dish said the FCC's rules ultimately "could add years to a process that has already lasted 20 months." Separately, the FCC also said it will propose auctioning the H Block of PCS spectrum in 2013, which Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) has said it wants for its LTE network.
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RCR Wireless U.S.
Wireless taxes top 15% for most Americans
Nov,21,2012
by: Martha DeGrasse
As Washington and the cash-strapped state governments look for new sources of tax revenue, wireless service could be a potential target. Consumer advocacy group mywireless.org is trying to head off efforts to increase wireless taxes by showing how much most Americans already pay. Wireless tax rates vary greatly by state, with residents of Nebraska, Washington, New York, Florida, and Illinois paying the highest rates. In New York, for example, the combined wireless tax rate is 23.67%, according to mywireless.org. New Yorkers pay both a state and local 911 tax, and local utilities and school district utilities both get tax revenue from wireless phone bills.
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Wireless Week
Nokia Launches iOS Mapping App
Nov,20, 2012
by: Andrew Berg
Nokia today launched an iOS app for Nokia Here, the company's new cross-platform mapping product. The new app is available for free in the Apple App Store for both the iPhone and iPad. Nokia Here, which launched last week, comes on the heels of Apple's disappointing foray into the mobile maps space. With iOS 6, Apple nixed the native Google Maps application from its devices, replacing it with Apple Maps. Consumers and reviewers alike have since panned Apple's offering, saying the maps are inaccurate, and also lack favored Google Maps features, such as transit directions. Apple has since apologized for the miscue and has actually recommended other third-party apps to its users, such as Navigon and social mapping app Waze.
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Health and Wellness Seminars Coming January 2013

Chicagoland Healthcare Professionals:
Are you concerned about your practice can meet the Meaningful Use 1 and 2 regulations? Are your still struggling to understand and complete your EHR network? Do you know if you even qualify for the over $20 billion dollar EHR Incentive program funds? If answered YES to any of these questions.
Then make plans this January, 9, 2013 to attend the Health and Wellness Seminar hosted by Chicago's Uptown Business Partners. These seminars will explain in clear English not tech speak how to understand and complete an EHR for your practice how fund it and real solutions on how to find and IT partner help you complete your EHR and qualify for the EHR Incentive program. The first seminar Understanding EHR will take you step by step on how EHR works and how to create an EHR network. We will be teaching this totally interactive seminar and giving you real solutions to your EHR problem.
So make plans to attend this seminar and get the answers you need to help your practice meet all of the Meaningful Use Rules.

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