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Will 4G LTE devices ever roam internationally?

It’s true that today iPad owners, along with other 4G LTE smartphone and tablet owners in the U.S., won’t be able to roam onto international 4G LTE networks while traveling. But will that change in the future? When Apple introduced its third-generation iPad last week, it took the wraps off the first Apple device to …

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In a world in which unlimited data plans are disappearing faster than you can say 4G LTE Hotspot, T-Mobile’s possible mobile-to-mobile offer sounds pretty tempting. If a report from TmoNews is true, the carrier will launch an Unlimited Any Mobile service on April 4 that offers all-you-can eat minutes to domestic cell numbers of all carriers. Even better, at just …

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Samsung Galaxy S3 pre

The Samsung Galaxy S3 has appeared on a phone retailer’s pre-order page, detailing what could be the specs of Samsung’s much yearned-for follow-up to the Galaxy S2. The listing, spotted by Recombu, appeared on mobilecityonline.com, a site that sells unlocked phones and mobile accessories. Is the listing genuine? It’s impossible to tell, but I’ve contacted Samsung for comment and will …

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AT&T bringing 4G LTE to a dozen new markets

New Orleans, St. Louis, and Cleveland are just a few of the cities on AT&T’s upcoming LTE deployment list. The company revealed today that it will bring 4G access to a dozen markets in April and May and on into the early summer. Locations slated for the high-speed upgrade include Cleveland, Akron, and Canton, Ohio; Naples, Fla; Bloomington, Lafayette, and …

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Has Aereo solved the cord

It’s tempting to think you can ditch your cable subscription, relying instead on a hodgepodge of content sources like Netflix and iTunes, but live TV is harder to replace. Many cord-cutters (including myself) get their live TV using free, over-the-air TV signals, but the hassle of dealing with an antenna and limited DVR options have left over-the-air TV as a …

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Google interested in V8 Supercars rights, but why?

According to a report in the Australian Financial Review, Google is in negotiations for the rights to the Australian V8 Supercars racing series. Before we get too excited about Google TV and its potential availability here, the rights the company is reportedly interested in are to screen the V8 Supercars series internationally and online. So, why is the search giant …

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Saving your smartphone

The line between a computer and a smartphone has blurred to the point of being indistinguishable over the past year or so, and not just from a technical perspective. The way we think of phones and the way we use them is more and more PC-like all the time. People create work documents on phones, capture one-time moments as photographs …

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Tech Time Machine: 10 March

It’s hard enough for most of us to think of the world prior to the internet, but try to imagine a world prior to the landline phone. That was the world that existed before today in 1876 before Alexander Graham Bell began chipping away at the tyranny of distance. Today also marks the height of the dotcom boom, and on …

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Tech Time Machine: 11 March

Now playing: Watch this: Tech Time Machine: 11 March 1:07 Antibiotics, the World Trade Center in New York City, Rupert Murdoch, Bobby McFerrin and an earthquake all walk into a bar, and the bar is called “11 March”. Other notable events on this big day in history are the terrorist attacks on the Madrid train system in 2004, the ascension …

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Bargain: Road Inc. iPad app is 99 cents for 2 days

Road Inc. has been out since last year and has generally received very good reviews from publications and users. It basically turns your iPad into a digital coffee table book or, as the company puts it, “Road Inc. is a fully interactive anthology of cars that marries the cutting edge of digital technology to traditional publishing craftsmanship.” There’s no game …

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