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Why Hasn't the FBI's Facial Recognition Technology Found the Boston Bombers?
April 18, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
According to multiple reports, the FBI's investigation into potential perpetrators in the Boston Marathon bombings now centers on "clear video images" that may be released today — possibly without names to faces or answers to America's questions. And while the case is a "fast moving" one with real progress on ...
New Boston Bomb Parts and Crime Scene Photos Provide Early Marathon Answers
April 17, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
As the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing entered its third day, forensic specialists with the FBI, ATF, and local law enforcement continued to review countless photos and videos. And while officials asked citizens to help find the suspect and Internet gurus helped make sense of the "bag or backpack" ...
Medical Advances From Iraq and Afghanistan Might Help Save Bombing Victims' Limbs
April 17, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
The doctors fighting to save the lives — and limbs — of those wounded in the Monday's bombing will have the benefit of recent major advances, many of them results of medical experience during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, in what is called limb salvaging. The latest casualty figure has ...
Dish's $25.5 Billion Offer for Sprint Is All About Cord-Cutting
April 15, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Dish is willing to pay $25.5 billion for Sprint because it thinks the wireless high-speed Internet Sprint can offer is the future of streaming TV. If the deal goes through, the satellite provider would offer Internet delivered wirelessly from Sprint cellphone towers to a rooftop antenna, Dish Chairman Charles Ergan ...
Bitcoin Crash Shows Why It's Not Really a Currency
April 11, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
After enjoying a week or so of increasing value, Bitcoin took a huge dive today, which explains why the "virtual currency" is not a currency at all, but more of a stock people have invested in to get rich. The coins started out at a high of $266 Wednesday, and ...
Why Google Fiber and Its High-Speed Clones Are Too Expensive for Your City
April 10, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
If you're not jealous of Austin, which on Tuesday officially became the second lucky city to get access to Google Fiber — the search giant's experimental, super fast, surprisingly cheap fiberoptic Internet infrastructure — you should be, because it's unlikely that your city will ever get the coveted connection service ...
Consider the BlackBerry Z10, a Smart Fish in an Ocean of Smartphones
April 8, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
So maybe you're shopping for a new cellphone this weekend. You could wait for that heady new Facebook phone, but that would make you one of them. Or you could hold out for that cheap iPhone, which Apple swears is coming. And then there's the latest savior from BlackBerry, which, ...
China Has a Better iPhone Warranty Than America to Go with Its Apology from Apple
April 2, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
After weeks of anti-Apple rhetoric from China's state run media outlets complaining about iPhone customer service standards, Apple CEO Tim Cook has not only written a formal apology but even gone so far as to change the Chinese iPhone warranty policy — and it's better than Apple's American policy now. ...
BlackBerry's Not Selling Enough New Phones Yet
March 28, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
The first earnings report from BlackBerry since its new phone launched is mostly good news—the company reported $94 million in profit and $1.2 billion in revenue—but there is one alarming figure: the 3 million customers the company has lost over the last three months. Even with a million Z10 devices ...
Nevermind: Facebook Is Keeping Track of What You Buy at the Drugstore
March 27, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
It took Facebook about six months to start using all that offline consumer data it's made deals for for more than just "research" and put all that rewards cards information to good lucrative use. With its new "ad effectiveness" program Facebook will serve specific ads that reflect your specific offline ...
