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FreedomPop launches free mobile plan with 200 minutes

FreedomPop has fired a shot over the wireless industry’s bow. To commemorate its one-year anniversary, FreedomPop debuted its free mobile phone service on Tuesday. The free service includes 200 anytime voice minutes and 500 text messages per month, as well as 500MB of data. For now, FreedomPop’s smartphone collection isn’t all that deep. The service is available solely on the …

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Samsung again accused of manipulating benchmarks

Samsung is falsely inflating the scores of its new Galaxy Note 3 smartphone, according to a detailed story published by Ars Technica. Reviews editor Ron Amadeo provides compelling evidence of his charges, which he says inflates the new smartphone’s performance scores by up to 20 percent when it specifically identifies popular benchmarking software such as Quadrant, Geekbench, and Linpack is …

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