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U r pwned: text messaging paves way for hacking

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Getting a text message is akin to someone sliding a piece of mail under your door: You may not have asked for it, you can't stop its delivery and you have to deal with it whether you want to or not.


New e-book reader to use AT&T network

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created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Following in the footsteps of Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle, another e-book reader is set to get a wireless connection from a cellular carrier, letting it access books anywhere there's a signal.


Verizon offers small carriers fresher handsets

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created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Verizon Wireless is offering small cellular carriers a chance to get new phone models faster.


Verizon Wireless to carry Android, Pre phones

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created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Verizon Wireless will introduce phones based on Google Inc.'s Android software "in the near future," its chief executive said Thursday.





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Verizon offers to cut exclusive time for phones

Technology / Telecom

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

(AP) -- Verizon Wireless has offered to shorten the period in which it demands exclusive rights to new cell phones from LG and Samsung in an effort to give small rural carriers a better chance to sell up-to-date phones.


DoCoMo invests $45.5M in US mobile video firm

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created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile phone operator, said Monday it spent $45.5 million to take a 35 percent share in a U.S. company that makes multimedia technology for its mobile phones.


Researchers are first to simulate the binding of molecules to a protein

Researchers are first to simulate the binding of molecules to a protein

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created Jun 30, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 4

You may not know what it is, but you burn more than your body weight of it every day. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a tiny molecule that packs a powerful punch, is the primary energy source for most of your ...


Unpaid bills? Good luck starting future laptops

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

(AP) -- As wireless carriers begin to subsidize computers that come with wireless Internet access, they're faced with a quandary: What do they do if the buyer stops paying his bills?


Sprint's WiMAX Future Is Open

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created Mar 27, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A Sprint executive says the cellular provider will become an Internet provider as well.


T-Mobile gets into the game of laptop connections

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created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

(AP) -- T-Mobile USA is opening up its new cellular broadband network to laptops for the first time, with Wednesday's launch of a USB "dongle" that lets portable computers get wireless Internet access.


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AT&T to sell iPhone without contract for $599

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created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(AP) -- AT&T Inc. said Thursday it will start selling iPhones without requiring a two-year contract, but they will cost $400 more.


Google Voice service blocks fewer than 100 numbers

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created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Google Inc. says its free messaging and calling service, Google Voice, blocks calls to fewer than 100 phone numbers likely to be adult chat lines and free conference call services.


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Google unveils free GPS navigation for mobile phones

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created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Google unveiled a free navigation system for mobile phones on Wednesday in a move seen as a potential challenge to the makers of GPS navigation devices.


AT&T to sell satellite phone from TerreStar

AT&T to sell satellite phone from TerreStar

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created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(AP) -- AT&T Inc. plans to sell a satellite phone from TerreStar Corp. that can place calls even in the deep wilderness or at sea, the carrier said Wednesday.



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