Tuesday 20 December 2011

AT&T, T-Mobile Merger Collapse a Victory for Consumers

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December 20, 2011
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AT&T, T-Mobile Merger Collapse a Victory for Consumers The multi-billion dollar AT&T takeover of T-Mobile is canceled. In a mobile market that already lacks competition, the merger would have meant higher prices for T-Mobile customers and mobile users in general.
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Shop At Best Buy Using Siri via Wolfram Alpha Wolfram Alpha and Apple's Siri make a perfect match to search Best Buy for tech using your voice on iPhones.
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6 Job-Hunting Tricks for a Web 2.0 World If you're sitting in your office right now, take a glance at the co-worker on your left and then at the co-worker on your right. Chances are one of them is looking to leave the company. Or perhaps it's you.
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AT&T Kills $39 Billion T-Mobile Deal AT&T has scrapped its plans to purchase rival mobile carrier T-Mobile USA in the face of opposition from two U.S. agencies.
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Ice Cream Sandwich Destined for Samsung Galaxy S II in Early 2012 Samsung also announced that most of its Galaxy-branded devices would get the Android 4.0 update some time next year.
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Why Social Tech's Real Value Is Inside the Business Although companies have been urged to adopt "Web 2.0" and social technologies for years now, the truth is that relatively few have done so internally in any serious way -- and use inside the business is where the most value can be gained.
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Firefox 9 Promises Speed, Adds Support for Lion and Android Built to be as much as 30 percent faster than Firefox 8, the release also brings Mac OS X Lion support and an Android version that's optimized for tablets.
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6 Google Projects Ripped from Sci-Fi Unconfirmed reports seem to suggest that Google is happy to reinvest some of its search revenue into pie-in-the-sky ideas.
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Ready, Set, Star Wars: The Old Republic Reviews Incoming Watch out World of Warcraft, EA and Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic has your storytelling savoir faire (or lack thereof) in its crosshairs.
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Google's Android Tablet: How Might It Be Different? Google has high-end aspirations, so its tablet has to deliver on screen resolution, processor power, storage capacity, and camera capability.
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Skype Offers Free Holiday Wi-Fi for Travelers Traveling this winter? In over 50 U.S. airports, Skype will be offering weary travelers one free hour of Internet service.
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Verizon Acknowledges Signal Strength Bug on Galaxy Nexus Verizon is working on a fix for a problem that some users say seems to slow down data access.
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Facebook Friends are Real-Life Friends! Turns out people are most likely to "friend" people on Facebook they know in real life. Surprise, surprise.
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AT&T's 4G Network Edges Verizon in Speed Test Data downloads and Web browsing on new LTE-ready smartphones were slightly faster on AT&T's new 4G LTE network, according to a study by Metrico Wireless.
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Groupon Fires Back at Amazon with $10 Discount to Buy Local Groupon's Buy Local program will give members a $10 credit, but only the first 150,000 shoppers who purchase something before Christmas Eve will receive the credit.
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Windows 8: Log On With Taps, Circles, and Lines Business logons require increasingly higher security, and mobile devices present new challenges. Windows 8's Picture Password takes a fresh approach.
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Fusion Garage's Future is Clouded Remember Fusion Garage and the JooJoo tablet? Nobody's quite sure what's going on with them.
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Critics Stage Last-ditch Effort to Derail Domain Name Expansion Plan Corporations and nonprofits fear they'll have to fight many more squatters using their trademarked names on domains like .hotel or .paris.
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Apple's Share of 'Ultrabook' Market Will Plummet, Analyst Predicts Although Apple will sell an increasing number of MacBook Airs over the next two years, its share of the light-and-thin notebook market will fall as computer makers crank out Windows-powered competitors, an analyst said last week.
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AT&T, T-Mobile Merger Collapse a Victory for Consumers The multi-billion dollar AT&T takeover of T-Mobile is canceled. In a mobile market that already lacks competition, the merger would have meant higher prices for T-Mobile customers and mobile users in general.
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Shop At Best Buy Using Siri via Wolfram Alpha Wolfram Alpha and Apple's Siri make a perfect match to search Best Buy for tech using your voice on iPhones.
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