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Dispatches from the heartland: there's no Sprint LTE in Kankakee, Illinois
Last month, The Wall Street Journal ran a story that the Illinois town of Kankakee — separated from Chicago by roughly 60 miles of suburbia and farmland — was "the only spot Sprint will name where [LTE] is up and running."
There's only one problem: I can't find it.
My suspicions were first aroused in a conversation with a Sprint spokesperson last
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Real-time Facebook 'likes' displayed on Brazilian fashion retailer's clothes racks
Fashion retailer C&A may be a fading brand in much of Europe, but its Brazilian arm is doing what it can to stay on the pulse of social media. A new initiative called Fashion Like allows people to 'like' certain items of clothing on the company's Facebook page, and these clicks are collated and displayed on the relevant clothes rack in
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Treat customers with respect, make bank
My dad's a good guy. He'd been an industrial equipment salesman for much of my life, and he was very good at it. Even though he's retired now, his phone still rings a few times a week. Sometimes customers need a part, sometimes they need advice on an installation, sometimes they're just calling to
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The best tech writing of the week, May 6th
We all know the feeling. You're sleepless in the sad hours of the night or stumbling around early on a hazy weekend morning in need of something to read, and that pile of unread books just isn't cutting it. Why not take a break from the fire hose of Twitter and RSS and check out our weekly roundup of essential writing from around the web about
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