Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Police said equipment was stolen and phone and internet service was briefly disrupted for approximately 130 customers.
The following information was supplied by the Manchester Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction where an arrest was made. (Sign up here for the FREE Patch Newsletter, including Breaking News Alerts.) Detectives are investigating after police were called by Charter Communications for a report of communications equipment being stolen. The incident happened on Jan. 23 at the company offices in the 1600 block of Country Stone Drive in Manchester. Police said a large piece of communications equipment was stolen and phone and internet service was briefly disrupted for approximately 130 customers. The theft reportedly occurred from outside equipment containers. Manchester police report they do have a suspect who is a former sub …
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Manchester Police Department
200 Highlands Boulevard Dr, Manchester, MO
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Consumer Reports thinks so, apparently. Do you agree that Apple is slipping behind its rivals in the smartphone market?
A recent issue of Consumer Reports that ranked the top smartphones in the U.S. placed the iPhone 5 behind its rivals among many carriers and it didn't even crack the top three for Verizon. (For instant news updates follow Patch on Facebook and Twitter.) Business Insider picked up on the magazine's story and speculated that while the iPhone has been a "mind-boggling" success for the past five years, other smartphone makers are starting to catch up, pointing to the success of the Samsung Galaxy S3 among others. The worry is that Apple will soon be eclipsed as the already hyper-competitive and ridiculous lucrative smartphone market continues to heat up. Of course, slipping from complete dominance to near-dominance isn't entirely bad, plus …
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Tech company calls it quits; local office closes.
For drivers in the St. Louis region who took out their cell phones and punched in 5-1-1 to check for traffic delays before starting a trip—they will have to find an alternative beginning February 1. The MoDOT service for the St. Louis area ends January 31. For the past five years MoDOT 5-1-1 has been provided by Navteq, a computer mapping and traffic reporting service owned by the Finnish company Nokia. The contract between MoDOT and Navteq expired last June, but the service continued on a month-to-month basis. In December, Navteq announced it was discontinuing its traffic reporting service and closing regional offices across the country. An editor with the St. Louis Navteq office told Patch that MoDOT wants to restore the 5-1-1 service in…
Thursday, January 19, 2012
St. Louis County Library users now can log into their accounts and make requests from on-the-go with a new smartphone application launched this week. Downloading eMedia got easier, too.
By bookmarking a new mobile application, St. Louis County Library users now can keep their library needs at their fingertips wherever they are. SLCL Mobile, the new application launched by St. Louis County Library staffers this week, works on all smartphones, including Android, iPhone and Blackberry. The app is free and available in the iTunes store and Android Market. A direct link to the app can be found by clicking here. Jennifer McBride, communications manager for the county's library system, said the app was developed by a company called Boopsie. SLCL Mobile provides real-time information for customers. Users can log in to their library accounts, renew items, search the catalog and place requests, said McBride. Using the smartphone’s…
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Grand Glaize Branch - St. Louis County Library
1010 Meramec Station Rd, Manchester, MO
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
The new hot trend in dining has nothing to do with food.
We've all done it. Here’s my story: Last week, I was waiting for the boyfriend to arrive for our sushi date. Bored, I watched couples at the tables around me, but one in particular caught my eye. Two young women with full plates of tempura and bright pink-and-green cocktails spent their entire meal engrossed in (not each other, not their food, not their drinks, but...) their phones. I swear they hardly said a word to each other the entire 45 minutes I was waiting. (I was super early, he was a little late. Typical.) As they left and the boyfriend arrived, I filled him in on the their ghastly behavior, my voice dripping with judgment. After dinner, as we sat a bar waiting for our movie to start, I was halfway into a work email when my …
Thursday, September 15, 2011
AT&T recently launched "Focus: St. Louis" to show customers how it is improving wireless coverage, especially if allowed to merge with T-Mobile. That merger, however, is being blocked by an antitrust suit.
AT&T has launched a new website called Focus: St. Louis that gives its customers the ability to see upgrades to their wireless system on a city by city basis. AT&T said the site is first for the industry. In addition to showing system upgrades, the site shows AT&T WI-FI hotspots and the locations of AT&T stores. Focus: St. Louis is one of eight hyper-local sites across the nation. Atlanta; Dallas-Fort Worth; Houston; Kansas City; Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL; Miami-Fort Lauderdale; Indianapolis; and Philadelphia also have Focus sites for their areas. The upgrades displayed currently for the Town and County-Manchester Patch are two connection upgrades in Manchester and two connection upgrades plus a capacity upgrade for Town and Country. The …
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Manchester City Hall
14318 Manchester Rd, Manchester, MO
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Town and Country City Hall and Police Department
1011 Municipal Center Dr, Saint Louis, MO
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Richard A.
7:49 am on Thursday, January 10, 2013
I have owned each of the Apple Phones. I was intending to purchase the next generation BUT then Apple made a mistake and made/designed the IPhone 5. The longer design just turned me off. I would have purchased one if the width had gone along with its height. This appears to be what most buyers are saying with the success of Samsung. NOW THEY APPEAR to be making a big mistake by planning to change… more ›