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Roku adds more 'channels' of video and other digital content

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Nov 26, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Owners of Roku's digital video player will soon have a bunch more channels to choose from.

EU assembly adopts Internet, phone user rights

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Nov 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1

(AP) -- The European Parliament has endorsed new telecom rules that would give phone and Internet users more rights and allow them to appeal to national courts if they are cut off for illegal file-sharing.

S.Korea halves ceiling on text messages to fight spam

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Nov 25, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

South Korean authorities on Wednesday halved the daily limit on text messages sent out by mobile phones as part of a campaign against spam, officials said.

Broadcast pioneer NBC prepares for cable takeover

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Nov 16, 2009 | 1 / 5 (1) | 1

(AP) -- Eight decades after pioneering the concept of broadcasting, NBC is on the verge of a startling move that illustrates broadcast television's decline.

Comcast's NBC talks cap its decades-long rise

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Nov 16, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Ralph Roberts knew he was onto something big when people ran after his cable TV trucks in Tupelo, Miss., asking for a visit to their homes.

Is neighbor's Wi-Fi signal free for me to use?

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Nov 11, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 4

Q. The other day, my Internet service went down as it does from time to time. But this particular time, I needed to check my e-mail for an important reply I was expecting. After some frustrating time passed, I happened to ...

Wi-Fi for travelers becomes Web marketing lure

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Nov 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places.

NICTA demonstrates new interference-cancellation modem for 3G femtocell networks

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Nov 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, has successfully demonstrated technology that reduces the amount of radio interference in 3G networks with ...

Grant awarded to improve the security of mobile devices and cellular networks

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Nov 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Smart phones -- like BlackBerrys and iPhones -- have become indispensable to today's highly mobile workforce and tech-savvy youngsters. While these devices keep friends and colleagues just a few thumb-taps ...

AT&T sues Verizon in Ga. over 'map for that' ads

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Nov 04, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- AT&T Inc. is suing Verizon Wireless over its competitor's "There's a Map for That" commercials, saying in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the ads are misleading and amount to deceptive trade practices.

T-Mobile says phone service outage resolved (Update)

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Nov 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Wireless provider T-Mobile USA Inc. says it has cleared up service problems that were interfering with calls and text messaging for about 5 percent of its customers.

China Unicom eyes one million China 3G subscribers per month

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Nov 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Mobile operator China Unicom said Tuesday it aimed to boost the number of its 3G mobile phone subscribers in China by one million per month, following its launch of Apple's iPhone there.

Jumping on the bandwagon: Introducing the next generation multi-band radio to emergency responders

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Nov 02, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Tom Chirhart knows a lot about radios, but over the last year, he's gotten a real life lesson in supply and demand.

Verizon launches TV-online movie channel

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Oct 30, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

US telecom firm Verizon launched a high-definition movie channel on Friday, letting subscribers watch films on-demand on televisions or on the Internet.

Google eyeing India 3G market: report

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Oct 27, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Internet giant Google is considering entering India's third-generation (3G) telecommunications market, a report said Tuesday.

India says will start 3G auction in January

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Oct 25, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

India said Saturday a long-delayed auction of radio bandwidth for third generation (3G) telecommunications services will start in January and will be open to foreign companies.

Africa world's fastest growing mobile phone market

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Oct 23, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mobile phone subscriptions in Africa have defied the world economic crisis by growing faster than in any other region of the world since 2003, according to a United Nations report published ...

FCC girds itself to navigate swamp where Web, phone, TV meet

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Oct 22, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The federal government this week is stepping squarely into a high-stakes technology battle with this seemingly straightforward question at its core: Should Internet providers such as Comcast and AT&T be allowed to control ...