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ITEXPO Las Vegas 2014 begins in: 3 Days. REGISTER NOW! Featured Articles » Google Trends: How Big Data Can Forecast the Stock Market The stock market is incredibly complex. Intricate data provides detailed information on global financial decisions. The market is almost like an intimidating foreign language to those not involved in it. » T-Mobile Now Top Provider in US Prepaid Mobile Phone Service Market T-Mobile announced on Wednesday that it had passed Sprint as the top provider of prepaid mobile phone service in the U.S. » How to Make Work from Home Programs a Win Across industries and geographies, companies continue to adopt Work from Home programs, giving employees increased flexibility and bolstering work/life balance. Recent government data reports 10 percent of American workers spend at least one day a week clocking in from home. The demand for flexibility is high and according to a survey conducted by Kona/SodaHead.com, 70 percent of workers want to work from home, and that number jumps up to 81 percent for workers age 35 to 44. » Study: Half of US College Students Damage Phone During School Year A new study by SquareTrade, an extended warranty service provider for consumer electronics and appliances including mobile devices, laptops and tablets, surveyed 541 U.S. college students using Google Consumer Survey last month and found that half of American students damage their smartphone during college. » Is a 'Cash for TV Clunkers' Trade-in Program in the Works? Five years ago last month, the government launched the cash for clunkers old car trade-in program, an approach that consumer electronics giant Samsung and BJs Wholesale Club resurrected on a far smaller scale as a means to entice consumers to trade in older TVs for savings on newer sets. » Sympathy for Sprint CEO Hesse Misplaced After Company Performance Sprint CEO Dan Hesse was replaced Wednesday, August 6. One narrative is crediting him for saving the Sprint-Nextel deal merger, but if that's an accomplishment worth bragging about, I'd hate to see what people call failure. » Tablet Sales Slow Dramatically, Slow Replacement Sales, Phablets, are Issues A growing number of forecasts and surveys suggest that tablet sales have slowed unexpectedly, and call for slower rates of sales growth than expected a year ago. The latest survey of 700 users by Business Intelligence shows some of the same trends other forecasters have observed, namely a rapid and unexpected sales slowdown. » The Billion User Name and Password Combo Heist-Have We Reached a TRUST Tipping Point? As I sit here spending my day changing all my passwords, for the I can't remember how many times this year, I can't help but wonder if we have reached a tipping point when it comes to TRUST on the Internet. » Microsoft Bleeds Cash On Tablet Business, Losses Hit $1.7 Billion Microsoft's transition into other markets besides the PC market has not exactly gone smoothly. Windows Phone is making something like a decent showing, but it's clearly competing for third place behind entrenched rivals Apple and Android. The Xbox business is doing passably well, if a bit under fire from Sony in recent months. But the Surface tablet business has not been good to Microsoft of late, and the red ink just keeps on flowing when it comes to Microsoft and tablets. » Verizon Still Plans to Throttle Unlimited Data Users Regardless of FCC Concerns Last week, Tom Wheeler, who is the FCC chairman, stated his concerns, in what is considered to be a strongly-worded letter that he was not happy about Verizon's plan to start slowing down customers on unlimited data plans beginning in October. This type of slowdown is referred to as throttling. From all accounts, Wheeler actually appears to be quite incensed about it as he said that he was deeply troubled by the news. Featured Resources » Hall and Woodhouse invests in Alcatel-Lucent's Opentouch to Maintain Impeccable Customer Services » Network Analytics - Expect Visibility & Control » Unlocking the Real Value of Customer Feedback » Learn How to Make Provisioning in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Simple Advertise With Us General advertising Info: Click here    Become a TechZone360 columnist! Become a TechZone360 columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of communications technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TechZone360 Web site and this newsletter. Contact Erik Linask at elinask@tmcnet.com for details. FOLLOW TECHZONE360   FEATURED MAGAZINES FEATURED EVENTS

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