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First Intel-powered smartphone to debut in China

US chip titan Intel on Tuesday announced it will move into the booming smartphone market with a China debut of a handset made by Chinese computer powerhouse Lenovo.

Electronics / Hardware

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Verizon Wireless to charge $2 for one-time payment (Update)

Verizon Wireless, the country's largest cellphone company, said Thursday that it will start charging $2 for every payment subscribers make over the phone or online with their credit cards.

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Netflix loses 800,000 US subscribers in tough 3Q (Update)

(AP) -- Netflix jolted its shareholders again with a third-quarter financial report that portrayed a company in crisis.

Technology / Business

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 7

BlackBerry outages persist into third day, spread to North America

BlackBerry users across the world were exasperated Wednesday as an outage of email, messaging and Internet services on the phones spread to the U.S. and Canada and stretched into the third day for Europe, ...

Technology / Telecom

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Document shows how phone cos. treat private data

A document obtained by the ACLU shows for the first time how the four largest cellphone companies in the U.S. treat data about their subscribers' calls, text messages, Web surfing and approximate locations.

Technology / Telecom

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Android smartphones gain more ground in US

Google's Android software strengthened its grip on the US smartphone market, powering nearly 42 percent of handsets as of July, industry tracker comScore reported on Tuesday.

Technology / Software

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New smartphone data plans could drag down innovation

Get ready, smartphone users - the days of flat-rate, all-you-can-eat data are ending.

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

ISPs, movie, music, TV groups in copyright deal

Major US Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and music, movie and television industry associations unveiled a long-awaited agreement on Thursday aimed at curbing online copyright infringement.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 17

iPhone passes Blackberry in US: comScore

Apple's iPhone has leapfrogged Research In Motion's Blackberry to grab fourth-place among handset manufacturers in the United States, tracking firm comScore said Tuesday.

Technology / Business

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Coming to mobile phones: Wall Street Journal fees

(AP) -- The Wall Street Journal plans to start charging as much as $2 a week to read its stories on BlackBerrys, iPhones and other mobile devices, expanding the newspaper's effort to become less dependent on its print edition.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Time Warner to spin off AOL, ending ill-fated deal

(AP) -- Time Warner Inc. is dumping AOL after spending nearly a decade trying to build a new-age media empire only to wind up in a weaker position than when the marriage began.

Technology / Business

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Japan's DoCoMo eyes cash transfer by cellphone

Japan's top mobile telephone operator NTT DoCoMo said Wednesday it aimed to launch a new service enabling cash transfers simply by entering the recipient's cellphone number.

Technology / Business

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Phone company shelves unpopular Internet cap plan

(AP) -- Time Warner Cable Inc. is testing a new way of charging for Internet use - by the amount of traffic rather than solely based on download speed.

Technology / Telecom

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

At least half of S.Korea cellphone users on smartphones

Smartphones now account for more than half of all South Korea's mobile phones following the iPhone's belated debut in the tech-savvy country in late 2009, according to industry figures.

Technology / Business

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Groupon reports smaller 1Q loss, higher revenue

(AP) -- Online deals company Groupon Inc. posted a smaller net loss and sharply higher revenue in the first quarter, helped by increased demand from a growing customer base.

Technology / Business

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