Clearwire adds subscribers as losses mount

Clearwire is adding new customers to its 4G wireless service, as the company announces a 72 percent growth in quarterly revenue. The company reported a loss or $94.1 million, or 47 cents per basic share. In the same quarter last year, it reported a loss of $71 million, or 37 cents per share. But the …

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JVC CU

Some media players are all Blu-ray this, Freeview that, and hard drive the other. But the new JVC CU-VS100 media player only plays back content from SD cards. It’s so free of flab that tawdry gossip rags could put it on the cover, point at it with arrows, and scream ‘Too thin?’. The CU-VS100 has not one but two SD card slots. …

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T-Mobile USA is considering leasing network capacity from the private equity firm Harbinger Capital to build its 4G wireless network, according to a report by the Financial Times. The news agency cited unnamed sources who said that T-Mobile’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom, is in early talks with Harbinger about the deal. In March, Harbinger said it would build a 4G …

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Space Station: Frontier for iPad is hard to put down

I check the iPad apps lists every day in the hope to uncover new gems. Though the frequency of apps coming into the app store is probably better described as a trickle rather than a flood, there’s already been a few keepers that I’ve spent a lot of time with. One new addition to my iPad is a strategy game …

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Telstra sweetens data deals

Telstra has jumped on the Android bandwagon in a big way, improving it post-paid browsing packs to accommodate the higher data requirements of its first Android-powered handset, the HTC Desire. Data transfers on the Next G network aren’t transferred via lightning. Be cool if they were though. (Credit: CBSi) The new Telstra data start from AU$5 per month for 30MB, …

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More people buying Wi

As more electronic devices become networked, consumers are flocking to gadgets with built-in wireless access, according to a report released Monday by In-Stat. Worldwide shipments of TVs with Wi-Fi are expected to jump from less than 5 million last year to around 65 million in 2014. Wi-Fi-enabled Blu-ray players will also be up there, with more than 61 million units …

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Free Bing app streams thousands of top

Microsoft isn’t known for giving away software, but right now you can download the Top 100s by Year by Bing app free of charge. (Catchy name, huh?) The app streams the top 100 songs of every year from 1947 to 2009. That’s 62 years, for a grand total of 6,200 songs. Whose top 100? Not Billboard’s, as you might expect. …

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Sprint, T

Faster and better doesn’t always mean more expensive, at least with some wireless networks. Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA are readying their next-generation wireless networks, which they hope will help them take on rivals AT&T and Verizon Wireless. And if speed doesn’t do it, price could help: Sprint and T-Mobile are each keeping prices on these new services low to …

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Sky News HD to launch on election day: Good and bad news for your eyes

The launch of Sky News HD this Thursday creates an aesthetic dichotomy for British TV viewers. On the one hand, we think it’s smashing that our news will be rendered in handsome HD. On the other, Sunrise with Eamonn Holmes will become totally unsuitable for all humans with functioning eyes. Sky has developed its news centre in West London into …

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Monitor money matters on Android with Mint

Article updated 5/3/2010 at 1:28 pm with new details about operating system compatibility. About a year and a half after releasing a mobile version of its personal-finance service for the iPhone, Mint.com is bringing its free credit-card and budget tracker to Android phones. As with the iPhone app, passcode-protected Mint.com on Android has you monitoring credit card, bank, and investment …

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Hands

It’s been about a month since Twitter began contributing its official apps to the BlackBerry marketplace, rather than sitting back and letting third-party developers take the reins. We checked out Twitter’s new, free, official in-house Android app over the weekend and for the most part, we’ve been liking what we see. While there’s no shortage of third-party Twitter apps in …

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Aliph adds A2DP to the Jawbone Icon

Aliph Jawbone Icon owners rejoice: you will now be able to add A2DP or stereo Bluetooth functionality to your Bluetooth headset for the unbeatable price of zero dollars. All you have to do is plug in your Icon headset to the computer, log on to Aliph’s MyTalk Web site, go to the “Innovations” section, and then add the new A2DP …

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iPad 3G sales estimated at 300,000 for launch weekend

The iPad 3G’s first weekend at market was a successful one, though not quite as successful as that of its Wi-Fi-only predecessor. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster estimates that Apple sold about 300,000 iPad 3Gs between Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon, including 52 days of preorders. That’s approximately what the original iPad sold during its first day of availability, including …

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Early Edition: The iPad’s best news reader?

If it looks like a newspaper and reads like a newspaper, it must be a newspaper, right? Actually, The Early Edition serves up RSS feeds. Beautifully. Rick Broida When people ask me how I like my new iPad and what I’m using it for, I answer as follows: “I like it, and I’m using it mostly for reading.” Not books–I …

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T-Mobile’s latest Android device isn’t the biggest surprise, considering all the various leaks over the past couple of months, but nonetheless, we’re glad that we can finally talk about the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Slide with official authority. Slated for a June release (specific availability date and pricing were not announced at this time), the Slide is the latest model to …

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