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'Digital Assets' Focus of New Delaware Law


For anyone who's done a little estate planning lately, it can be kind of a bear, figuring out just what all a person has on hand and how to distribute said material after one's death. The picture only gets worse when the idea of "digital assets" are considered; not just the $50 or so in a PayPal account derived from eBay sales, but also things like social media profiles. Some estimates suggest that a Twitter account with sufficient niche followers could be valuable for advertisers, so determining ownership after death may be more important than some expect. A new law in Delaware, meanwhile, makes it much easier for the executors of estates to account for these assets.

Why You Need to Know: The law in question, dubbed the Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets and Digital Accounts Act, essentially does just what the law's name suggests: it allows the heirs to and executors of estates of the deceased to gain access to and take legal control over an account or device.


 

New Sprint CEO Offers More Shared Data for Less

Until a couple of weeks ago, Dan Hesse was the CEO at Sprint. He took over the position in late 2007 and it seems that Hesse has left quite a legacy. When he arrived, the nation's third largest wireless carrier was reeling from a disastrous merger with Nextel. The company was very much in need of a turnaround strategy. Hesse was supposed to be the catalyst, unfortunately, it turns out that he's leaving it more or less the way he found it. Step in the new CEO, Marcelo Claure.

Why You Need to Know: After just a week of taking over the top spot in the company, he has made it clear as to how he intends to pick Sprint up by the bootstraps. On Monday, it was announced that there would be a new set of shared data plans, which are being referred to as the Family Share Pack. Essentially, these new plans provide customers with more data per connection at lower costs than Sprint's rivals.
 
 

Intel and SMS Audio Address the Fitness Audio Market

The acquisition of Beats Electronic by Apple earlier this year made one hip hop star very rich, and not to be outdone, another tech company is partnering with yet another famous name in the genre to sell a new line of headphones. At first glance it looks like another case of keeping up with the Joneses, but further examination reveals the collaboration between Curtis 50 Cent Jackson's SMS Audio and Intel is going after a demographic that makes up 66 percent of primary user case for in-ear headphones, people that exercise.

Why You Need to Know: A quick survey of people that work out usually reveals the vast majority of them are using in-ear headphones. These type of headphones allow the user free range of motion while staying in place through the most rigorous exercise routine.
 
 

North America will Continue to Lead Global LTE Market

When 4G LTE was announced, smartphone owners around the world rejoiced at the thought of not having to wait for the buffering loading wheel of doom to watch their favorite videos. This of course didn't mean everyone would have access to the technology, and depending what corner of the globe you call home, you might have to wait sometime before you can say goodbye to that dreaded wheel. According to one recent report, the global growth of LTE is progressing, but the North American market still holds the lion share of the deployments taking place.

Why You Need to Know: The penetration rate of smartphones is one of the reasons the North American market is leading in LTE connections, with the U.S. enjoying a 68 percent rate.
 
 

Sonus SBC SWe Lands Product of the Year From INTERNET TELEPHONY

There are a great many players when it comes to unified communications (UC) and a great many categories in which said firms play. Social collaborations, advanced marketing infrastructure, and a host of others make up this steadily growing field, and for every application, there are also hardware considerations afoot to help drive such applications. One of the biggest such hardware concerns is the session border controller (SBC), and one major name in SBC is Sonus. It's sufficiently major, in fact, that it recently took the Product of the Year award from INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, proving its mettle against a host of competitors in the field.

Why You Need to Know: There are actually a variety of points that helped on this one, particularly in terms of its versatility. The SBC SWe can be rapidly scaled to meet most any need, offering support from a simple office of 25 sessions at once ranging all the way up to an unlimited number, representing a set of features equivalent to Sonus' hardware version, the SBC 5000 Series.
 
 

 
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