Steven Musil

Report: AT&T schooled Apple on iPhone issues

AT&T executives, apparently feeling the heat of iPhone users’ complaints about poor service, have reportedly been working with Apple to resolve the issues. Since Apple’s iPhone launched exclusively on AT&T’s network more than two years ago, customers have been complaining about dropped calls and slow data connections, especially those in urban areas such as New …

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Google launches Nexus One phone support

Google is answering the call from Nexus One phone owners. More than a month after officially unveiling the new Android-based phone, the search giant on Monday launched a phone support line specifically to answer the questions of Nexus One owners. Phone owners can call (888) 48NEXUS (63987) between 4 a.m. and 7 p.m. PST and reach a live tech, Google …

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AT&T ceases online iPhone sales in NY area

Updated at 8:05 p.m. PST with comment from AT&T. Update at 1:50 p.m. PST December 28: AT&T has resumed sales. AT&T has stopped selling the Apple iPhone in the New York metropolitan area through its Web site, perhaps due to data congestion, credit card fraud, or routine sales strategy changes, depending on whom you believe. Online sales of the phone …

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Report: O2 to buy VoIP start

O2, the mobile arm of Telefonica Europe, appears to be the winner of a bidding war for voice over IP start-up Jajah, according to a report on TheMarker that Reuters is citing. O2 is expected to buy Jajah this week for $200 million, according to a report on the Hebrew language news site. Cisco Systems and Microsoft were rumored to …

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This week in the music industry

What would the music industry be without a little controversy? Just when you thought Sony BMG Music Entertainment had put its security problems behind it, the record label announced it had found, and fixed, a new risk associated with some of its CDs. The vulnerability could let malicious programmers gain control of computers that have run the software, which is …

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