Posts Tagged ‘north-carolina’

HTC confirms new research and development office in RTP, North Carolina

It's been swirling for months now, but at long last HTC has finally come forward with the official word: it'll be cracking open a new operation in the heart of North Carolina's technology hub to usher in 2011.

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FCC to auction off deadbeat bidders’ 700MHz spectrum on July 19th, 2011

If there's one thing we've learned from our stratospheric rise in smartphone adoption over the past several years (with no end in sight), it's that we can never have enough spectrum to run data services for them -- just ask the chairman of the FCC , the president of the CTIA , or pretty much anyone who's ever tried to load Engadget on an iPhone in Times Square. To that end, we're excited to see that the FCC has slated another round of 700MHz spectrum -- the pure gold that Verizon, AT&T, and others are using for LTE deployments -- but we wouldn't get too excited, because it's actually just a few blocks left over from the last auction that went unsold or unpaid

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HTC job listing hints at an E Ink / 3D-filled future, new North Carolina facility

Months back, word on the street had it that HTC was looking to grab up emptied space in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park post-recession; huge outfits like Nortel bit the bullet in 2009, while Sony Ericsson shuttered its operations there and relocated to Atlanta. Naturally, the consolidation paved the way for other technology firms to slide in without overpaying for real estate

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AT&T announces expanded availability of 3G MicroCell

It may not be the news that folks in some particularly problematic areas have been waiting for, but AT&T has now announced that it's finally expanded availability of its 3G MicroCell beyond its initial testbed of North Carolina. The new markets apparently include some additional areas of North Carolina, along with at least some parts of South Carolina and Georgia, plus San Diego and Las Vegas. Hit up the link below to punch in your zipcode for exact availability, and all the necessary details to get "five bars in your own home." And if you're curious about exactly what this whole femtocell thing is about, be sure to check out our impressions of the device.

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Sony Ericsson closing four facilities, laying off 2,000 employees worldwide

Sony Ericsson has yet to make this public, but we've learned that the flagging handset maker has caved once more to the pressures of the modern phone market place. If you'll recall, 450 employees were nixed from the company's payrolls in September of last year, and now the entire Research Triangle Park facility is being shuttered.

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RF Micro posts profit on cell phone, China strength; stock jumps …

The results topped Wall Street's expectations, and the stock jumped 28 cents, or 7 percent, to $4.30 in extended trading after the numbers were reported. Net income was $14.6 million, or 5 cents per share, versus a loss of $14.2 million ...

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Police: 6-year-old NC girl hit and killed by 83-year-old's SUV …

May 1st, 2009 Bus runs down RI teen distracted by phone , musicWARWICK, R.I. — A 15-year-old girl wearing headphones and looking down at her cell phone while crossing a street was struck and killed Friday by a school bus carrying ...

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Glascock…More Than Just a Painful Street Name | New Raleigh

I always dread the point of a phone call when I get the inevitable snicker because I have to tell the operator at the phone /cable/etc company what street I live on. Glascock Street . Some of them even make me repeat it just to hear me ...

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