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AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile USA are scaling back plans for a mobile payment system that will allow people to buy things with their cell phones, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal today. NFC (near-field communication) chips are embedded in phones and talk to the merchant’s payment console. CNET In November the companies announced that they had …

BlackBerry mobile devices will in future have the Bing search engine as default, its makers RIM have announced. An apparently surprise visit to the BlackBerry World conference by Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer publicly sealed the deal. So are Google’s days of dominance in desktop and mobile search fading fast? Although savvy users will still be able to choose which search provider …