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Google is gearing up to sell wireless service directly to customers as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), by acquiring excess network capacity from Sprint and T-Mobile and reselling it to customers under its own brand. This is the same approach used by Cricket Wireless,...

Roasting coffee is complicated. Subtle changes in timing and temperature can noticeably affect the flavor of your coffee, and getting things right often requires meticulous tweaks to your roaster settings—or hands-on attention to the roast itself. But a company called Behmor wants to simplify this painstaking...

Aiming to get "the professional side of things," HealthTap has released dozens of lists ranking the top apps recommended by physicians. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company surveyed more than 65,000 physicians in its network and another 500,000 in its referral network on their recommendations on a...

Patients have said it, and they'll keep saying it until they get what they want: More and more of them want their docs to go digital. But, as a new report highlights, many docs are still dragging their feet with technology big time. The...

When bankers of the future decide whether to make a loan, they may look to see if potential customers use only capital letters when filling out forms, or at the amount of time they spend online reading terms and conditions — and not so much...

We're getting Big Data all wrong, and it's holding us back. By making a fetish of the volume of data we're collecting, we've completely overlooked the most important aspect of our data: analyzing it. Such analysis is often assumed to be the province of data scientists,...