Sprint Nextel said it will give LightSquared an additional six weeks to get approval to build its nationwide 4G LTE wireless network from the Federal Communications Commission or it will terminate its agreement with the company, according to Dow Jones Newswires. A Sprint spokesman told Dow Jones that the company had given LightSquared until mid-March …
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The HTC Rezound might just work in humble old Blighty after all, despite being a mobile aimed squarely at phone buyers in the big ol’ US of A. An XDA Developers forum member by the name of ‘i rule123’ claims they live in the UK, but having taking delivery of an HTC Rezound from an American eBayer just after Christmas, …
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AT&T announced today a rejiggering of its management team, in what looks like a move to better align executives to AT&T’s various business units. The company created a new position for John Stankey, who had previously been president and CEO of AT&T Business Solutions. Now Stankey will be group president and chief strategy officer in charge of developing AT&T’s road …
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What could be worse than a surprise overage fee? For some people it’s having their wireless carrier put the brakes on their data service. In this edition of Ask Maggie, one reader wants to know whether it’s worth keeping his AT&T unlimited data plan after AT&T has warned him that his service will be slowed down because he’s in the …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 on the London Eye 1:47 If you’ve ever floated above our nation’s capital in one of the London Eye’s great glass baubles, you may have gazed out over the famous urban landscape and wondered what exactly, beyond Big Ben and the BT Tower, you were looking at. Wonder no more, for Samsung …
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Proving which phone carrier is the best can be a difficult endeavor to take up, and sometimes you need a bit more than anecdotal evidence. Verizon reigned supreme in RootMetric’s 2011 Year in Review report. RootMetrics Commercials featuring big floating blue and red maps help a little, but that story about how you couldn’t eat at that one restaurant in …
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New video landed online this week that shows us our first real-world look at the unannounced HTC Ville. Expected to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress in late February, the Ville should be HTC’s thinnest smartphone to date. The Ville first broke cover in early November when we learned that it would feature some rather high-end hardware. Rumored specs include …
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The Federal Communications Commission voted Tuesday to bring its subsidy programs for low income families into the 21st century by offering funds for basic broadband service for financially disadvantaged Americans. In its January open meeting Tuesday, the FCC adopted an order that will eliminate the FCC’s Link Up program, which offers a one-time $30 credit for the installation of landlines …
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What is a “book” on an iPad? It’s a question that bears some consideration, because the very nature of a tablet redefines the book experience. According to Apple, iBooks 2 is the answer. However, plenty of booklike apps on the iPad also redefine the territory; the newly released Bats!: Furry Fliers of the Night doesn’t live in iBooks, but this …
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The Samsung Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Note will get the Ice Cream Sandwich update before April, Samsung Norway has confirmed. Pocketdroid spotted a post on the company’s Facebook page, in which Samsung Norway assured Galaxy fans that both the S2 and the Note would be getting bumped up to Android 4.0 “at the end of the first quarter” (takk, Google …
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Many a gadget hunter has searched for the mythical beast known as the Asus Padfone, but new reports suggest it could officially arrive at Mobile World Congress next month. From the Motorola Atrix phones to the Samsung Galaxy Note, convertible or hybrid mobile computing products are a new trend to watch. Asus also made waves with the Transformer Prime, a …
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Sky is ditching the dish. For the first time, you’ll be able to get full Sky packages without a bowl on the side of your house with a new online service launching in the next six months. Up until now, Sky’s online services, such as Sky Go, have acted as catch-up or on-demand add-ons for customers who already have a …
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Ever wish you could beam a photo from your iPhone or iPad to your printer? That’s the promise of Apple’s AirPrint technology, which debuted way back in iOS 4.2. Unfortunately, few printers support AirPrint, meaning most users are stuck copying photos to their PCs and then printing them. Screenshot by Rick Broida A little over a year ago, I posted …
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China Telecom may begin selling the Apple iPhone 4S as early as next month, the carrier reportedly announced today. A CDMA version of the phone could launch on China’s third largest wireless carrier as early as late February or early March, China Telecom subsidiary Beijing Telecom said in a press release cited by China Daily. “China Telecom has already started …
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The Nokia Lumia 910 has popped up on a Dutch phone site, showing off a 12-megapixel camera and a similar design to the already-announced Lumia 900. The listing was spied by WPsauce.com, but those hoping for a radically different Lumia will be disappointed — reading down the list of specs, the Windows Phone-powered 910 looks almost identical to the Lumia …
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