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Microsoft adds app access to non-smart phones

Technology / Software

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is giving people with regular cell phones access to the same kinds of programs that smart phone owners have embraced.


Sprint Nextel to buy Virgin Mobile USA

Technology / Business

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

(AP) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. is intensifying its focus on the fast-growing market for prepaid cell phone service with a $483 million deal to buy Virgin Mobile USA Inc.


Cut-rate prepaid plans shake up wireless industry

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(AP) -- As wireless carriers start reporting first-quarter results this week, investors will be looking at the effects of some spectacular price cuts for prepaid cell phone service.





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Greeks to register prepaid cell phones

Technology / Telecom

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

(AP) -- Greece's prepaid mobile phone users will now have to register their identities in a bid to tackle illegal immigration and other crime, the communications minister said Tuesday.


Tracfone tests cheap unlimited plan on Verizon

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(AP) -- Tracfone Wireless, the country's largest provider of "prepaid" cell phones, is quietly testing a new service that appears to be a response to the fierce price competition in the prepaid market.


Smart phones seem to be recession resistant

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 31, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As consumers pull back on spending, at least one tech product is staying hot enough that it could defy the recession: smart phones. Overall handset sales are slowing, and some of the biggest makers of the devices are ratcheting ...


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Review: 10 ways to save on calling costs

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- The cost of making phone calls has been dropping rapidly in the last few years. If you want take full advantage of that, you'll need to try some new things, because the phone companies aren't going ...


Report: Dell to make Android phone for AT&T

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A newspaper report says Dell Inc. is working on a "smart" phone for AT&T that runs Google Inc.'s Android phone operating system.


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Motorola loss widens; analysts see worrisome signs

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

(AP) -- Motorola Inc. defeated low expectations Thursday, posting a smaller first-quarter loss than Wall Street had expected and regaining its position as the world's fourth-largest maker of cell phones.


The unicycling clown phenomenon: Talking, walking and driving with cell phone users

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Everyone tends to float off into space once in a while and fail to see what is sitting there right in front of them. Recently researchers decided to put the theory of "inattentional blindness" to the test: the unicycling ...


Fewer players in wireless could rein in price cuts

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(AP) -- How many wireless carriers do we need? It's a question that's popping up again as T-Mobile USA is said to be looking at buying Sprint Nextel Corp.


For needy, cell phones can be free

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

An obscure federal program that helps poor people pay for phone service is entering the wireless era. Cell phone companies are offering the needy a bargain that the rest of us can only dream about: free service.


It's phone over sex for some

Technology / Other

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Who needs foreplay when you have a cell phone?



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