Sentences with phrase «by cellphone companies»

The coalition is also hoping to protect location information for individuals gathered by cellphone companies through GPS technology.

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Google kicked this week off with a bang with a surprise announcement that it was acquiring cellphone maker Motorola for $ 12.5 billion, a huge move that will boost the search engine company's employee headcount by 60 %.

That was shot down by regulators, who believed competition would suffer if the second - largest cellphone company were to gobble up the fourth - largest.

FORTUNE — Isis, the mobile payments platform backed by AT&T (T), Verizon (VZ) and T - Mobile USA, has inked deals with the four largest credit - card networks, a move that the companies say will help accelerate the long - awaited «cellphone - as - a-wallet» concept in the U.S.

Small wireless player Wind Mobile, part of a wave of new companies that have brought Canadians more competition in the cellphone market, has signed a deal to owned by a global telecom company.

In 2008, Vudu's chief executive left the company and was replaced by Alain Rossmann, a co-founder who was an early Apple executive and a pioneer in making the Web accessible from cellphones.

They are also bracing for the threats posed by interlopers like Amazon eyeing a foray into the pharmacy business or tech companies offering virtual medical care via a computer or cellphone.

Similarly, China's second - largest mobile company, China Unicom, was said by analysts and others to have delayed or scrapped the imminent introduction of a cellphone based on Google's Android platform.

T - Mobile and Sprint say they've reached an agreement to combine into a new company that would reshape the U.S. wireless landscape by reducing it to three major cellphone providers.

US Sen. Chuck Schumer has initiated a new campaign to force wireless cellphone companies to fix Long Island and New York City's notorious dead zone spots by asking consumers to report on his website the locations where service is regularly dropped.

To further illustrate the fact that Trump is following his voters here, not leading, we have February 14, 2017 Fox News poll conducted by Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R); polling both landline and cellphones.

That's why my future undergarments will include the BioHarness, a special chest strap from an Annapolis, Maryland, company called Zephyr that measures vital signs like heart rate and skin temperature, as well as body motions, and relays any worrisome readings via a Bluetooth transmitter to whoever might be standing by with a cellphone or computer to help.

Cellphone companies, by contrast, subsidize the sale of phones but profit from monthly service charges.

Your credit report is used by lenders, creditors, employers, utilities, cellphone companies and many other service providers to determine the level of risk you present.

Credit inquiries are usually made by organizations like your bank, creditors, landlords, insurance providers, and cellphone companies to decide how creditworthy you are when you apply for a new account.

The Green Car Congress recently reported on a seed - stage company, Texxi, in the UK who has developed a system that collates request for point - to - point travel from a dispersed set of travelers via SMS (they send a text - message by cellphone their destination postcode to the system) and then travelers going in the same direction into one vehicle at a discounted rated.

A major insurance company and a major insurance industry group are backing a recommendation by the National Transportation Safety Board for a state - by - state ban on using cellphones while driving... more

Credit reports are not only the gateway toloans, mortgages and credit cards, but are often reviewed by landlords, cellphone providers and utility companies.