The move is part of an effort to boost basic-plan speeds this year in all markets in the company’s 41-state service area.
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Windham man lands unexpected role on CBS’s ‘Undercover Boss’
Kyron Hobdy, a maintenance technician for mobile carrier UScellular, thought he was participating in a (fictional) British TV show called ‘Starting Over.’
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Brunswick esports tech startup Omnic Data receives early funding
The company, which gathers esports players’ performance data, just raised $750,000 in seed capital.
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Facebook to shut down face-recognition system, delete data
About 640 million users opt for that form of authentication system.
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Portland sports tech firm KinoTek scores $2.1 million investment
The company, which has developed a platform to help clinicians rapidly obtain data on their clients’ movement, received the money from a Florida investment fund.
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Hannaford opens ‘virtual convenience store’ with fast delivery
Customers can use the Instacart third-party shopping service to order groceries for 30-minute delivery.
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Tech firm born in Maine uses AI to monitor commercial fishing
New England Marine Monitoring’s new technology could drastically reduce a tedious component of fisheries management and help make the industry safer.
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Mainer’s affinity app to connect families, businesses to launch in mid-August
Match2Play was created by Sara Lopez, a mother of four boys who was inspired by her own struggle to find other families to connect with after moving to Maine four years ago.
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Robots roaming Bethel earn one young man an education
BETHEL — What’s a robot doing in Bethel, Maine? This story starts when a step-father and step-son are talking one day after the step-father gets home from work. The step-father tells his step-son he’s having a problem at work. He’s a snowmaker working at Sunday River. It’s December, the middle of the busiest snow season, […]
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Can lab-grown lobster compete with Maine’s most lucrative catch?
A food tech company in Wisconsin plans to commercialize cultured lobster meat, but industry leaders in Maine say they don’t see it as an immediate threat.