Update May 6, 7:51 a.m. PT: The FCC has released its statement. More coverage to follow. Net neutrality regulations are likely to be imposed on broadband providers after all. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski plans to announce details of the plan on Thursday, a senior agency official said. The purpose is to circumvent a …
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5 May
Clearwire expands 4G but major cities still left out
People living in some of the nation’s biggest cities in the U.S. will have to wait a little longer to get 4G wireless broadband service from providers using the new Clearwire network. Clearwire, which is building a nationwide 4G wireless network using a technology called WiMax, announced Wednesday that it will be adding 18 additional cities to the list of …
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5 May
Boost Mobile introduces free 411 calls
Boost Mobile is sweetening its $50 monthly unlimited deal–which includes voice, messaging, and Web–with a very nice bonus. Boost Mobile customers can now make free, unlimited 411 calls. This bonus is for both the $50 unlimited customers as well as those who are on the $60 a month BlackBerry unlimited plan. Boost Mobile also announced unlimited e-mail and instant messaging …
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5 May
Nokia phones tap Microsoft mobile app
The E72 is one of the first Nokia phones to get Microsoft’s Communicator Mobile software. Nokia A mobile alliance between Microsoft and Nokia has given birth to its first application. The two companies announced on Wednesday the launch of Communicator Mobile, a Microsoft app designed to run on Nokia smartphones. Communicator Mobile will let users of Nokia smartphones tap into …
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5 May
Dialed In 125: Down on Kin (podcast)
Bonnie finally reviews the Microsoft Kin phones, and let’s just say it isn’t too positive. We also discuss the recently announced Android phones–the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Slide and the LG Ally–plus a few other cell phone news items this week. Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In 125: Down on Kin 23:15 Podcast Your browser does not support the audio element. …
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5 May
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 loss still managed to beat …
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5 May
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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4 May
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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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4 May
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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4 May
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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