CBS I know nobody who enjoys extracting a triple-digit Comcast bill from a ripped-open envelope (or from an e-mail) come bill time, but for me, the bundled home Internet, cable, and phone service does at least reduce my monthly bill-paying hassle. Wouldn’t it be great if carriers offered increasingly tech-savvy and gadget-happy consumers a similarly …
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18 January
MetroPCS intros ‘stylish’ Huawei M735
MetroPCS’ new recruit, the Huawei M735, isn’t trying to win points by running with the pack. Instead, Huawei hopes it can earn notice for its distinctive white style with colored accents. The BREW-powered cell phone features a 2.8-inch QVGA (320×240 pixels) touch screen, a 3-megapixel camera, and MP3 player. It also takes up to 8GB of external memory. The Huawei …
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18 January
O2 customers glug free M&S smoothies in location
Feeling thirsty? Marks & Spencer is doling out free smoothies to O2 mobile customers signed up to the O2 More service. Simply walk past a participating branch of the quintessential British retailer and your phone will buzz with a voucher in a text. Oh, and you’ll have to buy a sandwich or a salad. It’s the latest example of location-based …
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18 January
Verizon’s LG Ally poised to receive Froyo
Verizon is set to begin pushing out another Android 2.2 Froyo update, this time for the LG Ally. Launched last May with the release of “Iron Man 2,” the smartphone has been running Android 2.1 for the better part of a year. Details of the update range from enhancements to the browser to improved security and new versions of the …
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18 January
Regulators approve Comcast
The Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice today approved a deal to create a joint venture between cable giant Comcast and NBC Universal. In a 4-1 vote, the FCC determined that the deal is in the nation’s public interest. The Justice Department also issued a statement that it has approved the union, which will be the first …
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18 January
Sony Ericsson sues Clearwire over logo
Mobile handset maker Sony Ericsson is suing wireless broadband provider Clearwire for trademark infringement. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. district court in Virginia on Friday, Sony Ericsson said that Clearwire’s green and white swirl logo is confusingly similar to its own green and white swirl logo. Sony Ericsson said that it became aware of Clearwire’s plans to use a …
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18 January
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Android app Booty Symphony proves — if there was any doubt — that when Americans hear the word ‘booty’, their first thought is nothing to do with piratical treasure. US rapper T-Pain’s new musical remix app is all about big butts. No, we most certainly cannot lie. The app came out this morning, with an exclusive free version on the …
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18 January
Sky HD channels swapped with SD on guide, in rare attack of common sense
It’s a sad fact that HD channels on Sky have always been harder to find than the boring old SD ones. Wonderfully, the company has realised this is a problem and has decided to fix the oversight by moving some channels around. Where Sky One HD is currently languishing at 170 on the programme guide, for example, it’ll switch with …
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17 January
News Republic filtering app for iPhone and Android offers cure for ‘infobesity’
If cats could be swung on the App Store, they’d be hitting hundreds of newspaper apps, all jostling for a space on the homescreens of iPhone and iPad users. There are plenty of other news apps taking a different approach, however, sucking in stories from thousands of sources with the aim of serving up the ones you’ll be most interested …
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17 January
How to speed up your Samsung Galaxy S with the Voodoo lag fix
We think the Samsung Galaxy S is one of the greatest phones of recent times. The design, screen and powerful hardware are everything we’re looking for in our most important gadget. But there’s a problem with the Galaxy S, and that’s lag. And it can be a considerable problem too, causing the phone to become unresponsive and frustratingly slow. There …
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