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Dialed In 150: A cell phone sesquicentennial

It’s a big day Dialed In for as we hit our 150th episode, Bonnie makes it back to San Francisco for a special visit, and Jessica marks the day before her birthday. We also have a lot to get through today as the usual preholiday deluge of new phones is reaching its height. As it always does, Samsung is spinning …

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Cable cord

There’s been a lot of talk about people canceling their cable TV subscription to stream video on their TVs over the Net, but consumer research firm Nielsen says the number of people actually doing it is still very small. Cheryl Idell, an executive vice president at Nielsen, told the blog PaidContent earlier this week that many people may be talking …

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