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Sprint’s Common Cents plan to become Virgin Mobile PayLo

Sprint will discontinue its Common Cents prepaid plan, CNET learned today, and will instead transition existing customers into the PayLo plan run by Virgin Mobile, a different Sprint prepaid brand. Related links • Sprint and Wal-Mart offer cheap prepaid plan • Sprint expands Common Cents service Sprint and Wal-Mart launched Common Cents as an in-store …

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Android tweak lets admins reset stolen devices

Google has enhanced the enterprise management capabilities of its Android smartphone platform, making it possible for administrators to secure and reset lost or stolen devices. In a blog post on Thursday, Google Enterprise Mobility Product Manager Mayur Kamat wrote that Android already worked “quite well” with the Google Apps productivity and collaboration suite, but the company was working to provide …

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Sky 3D uncovers long

They’re often portrayed in films as two-dimensional villains, but the Nazis were in fact fans of 3D. Newly discovered photos and film footage shows Second World War-era soldiers soldiering in specially filmed 3D, to be shown in May on Sky 3D. WWII in 3D will be shown on Sky’s 3D channel in May. The documentary will include film and photographs …

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Divestiture: When your carrier leaves you (FAQ)

It’s been almost a month since AT&T dropped the $39 billion bomb that it was intending to acquire T-Mobile. And since that time, the wireless world had talked about little else. Indeed, the news of the potential merger dominated the CTIA show last month, and my CNET colleagues and I have fielded many reader questions over the marriage. Your concerns …

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T-Mobile G2X Nicole Lee/CNET T-Mobile announced today via Twitter that the T-Mobile G2X (aka, the LG Optimus 2X) will be available online starting April 15 and in stores on April 20 for $199.99 with a two-year contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate ($499.99 without contract). For the price, you get an Android 2.2 device with a 1GHz Nvidia Tegra …

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T-Mobile’s twitter account was busy today as it confirmed not one but two Android handsets with launch dates and prices. Shortly after letting its followers know of the dual-core G2X, the carrier tapped the Sidekick 4G with an April 20 release. T-Mobile also confirmed pricing as $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and two-year service agreement. Considering that the hardware …

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Who will profit from NFC, mobile payments?

We’ve been talking about mobile payments gaining U.S. traction for years, but it’s been during only the past few weeks that there’s been a stampede of activity signaling that the fight for dominion over mobile payments is about to begin. What makes the topic such a tangle is the fact that the term “mobile payments” can mean anything from NFC …

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