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Sprint is shuttering its Zact service in favor of an in-house customizable prepaid plan. Zact was a Sprint MVNO that allowed users to buy voice, text, and data instead of minutes and megabytes.
Like Zact, Sprint's new...
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Samsung's slide is starting to look like a trend. For the third straight quarter, the Korean giant is predicting lower profits due to weakening demand for its smartphones. The company still dominates the global smartphone market...
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The Transportation Safety Board says it will not allow uncharged cell phones or other uncharged portable electronics to board U.S.-bound planes from some airports. The agency is concerned that the devices could be used to hide...
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Microsoft has clearly decided that it needs to make hardware if it wants to be relevant in mobile, and now it looks like the software giant is moving beyond the Surface tablets and the handset business...
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The app arms race may be set for a slowdown, with new data from Nielsen suggesting that Americans are approaching the upper limits of their capacity to download new apps. The average number of apps used...
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More than 64,000 engineers are suing some of the biggest employers in mobile for conspiring to keep them in their jobs, and now those companies have offered a settlement. The class action lawsuit was brought against...
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It's been 15 years since Google launched the search algorithm that would turn its company name into a verb. Now, Google wants to permeate our mobile lives the same way it dominates the online environment. Yesterday...
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Dish Network is giving a new meaning to the term "cord cutter" with its latest pay TV innovation: a set-top box that connects to the Dish Hopper via superfast 802.11ac Wi-Fi. Dish is the first pay...
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Mobile networks are set for another increase in video traffic. Today Twitter said it is buying SnappyTV, a startup that allows marketers to share TV video clips on social media. "Together, we’ve worked with the biggest...
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BlackBerry says that the upcoming version of its mobile operating system will include direct access to the roughly 200,000 Android apps available in Amazon's app store. The deal is meant to close some of the "app...
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The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Amazon may be trying to create an iPhone-like buzz around its new smartphone by giving the device exclusively to AT&T. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the expected Amazon smartphone will be available only...
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The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Amazon is expected to bring a new dimension to the smartphone market this week with an Amazon-branded phone that will track the user's eyes and create a 3D image of the object of interest. Could...
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The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Powermat has reportedly won a mega-deal with Starbucks that will eventually put the wireless charging system into Starbucks stores nationwide. Starbucks customers will be able to place their mobile devices onto tables and charge them...
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The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. When it comes to wearables, one size may not fit all. Salesforce.com is hoping to capitalize on the idea that businesses can find unique ways to leverage connectivity. Today the software giant launched Salesforce Wear...
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The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. T-Mobile US has won millions of new customers by encouraging mobile subscribers to ditch their contracts and get the devices they really want. But the carrier has paid dearly for those customers, and now it's...
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The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Conversations on Vodafone's mobile network are routinely listened to by government agencies, according to a report out today from The Guardian. The European telecom giant decided to speak out because it wanted people to understand...
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The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. The price of mobile data has definitely been falling in the U.S., but the amounts Americans pay for data plans are still far beyond the means of many would-be smartphone users in emerging markets. Now...
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The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Apple has launched iOS 8, the newest version of its mobile operating system. iOS 8 includes photo sharing and iTunes content sharing across devices, and it will let users add voice and video to iMessages....
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Mobile app acquisitions are making headlines, with two new deals announced this week and a third hitting a possible snag. Intuit is buying mobile app Check for $360 million, or about 18 times expected 2014 revenue....
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BlackBerry is imagining a world where contact lenses measure blood sugar levels for diabetics, and cows are connected to the Internet so that we know more about the quality of our milk and meat. It can...
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AT&T wants to buy DirecTV for $48.5 billion, and the carrier is doing all it can to encourage regulators to approve the deal. It has promised to abide by the FCC's 2010 net neutrality rules for...
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More details today about the next generation of the iPhone, expected to launch later this year. 9-to-5 Mac is reporting that Apple will triple the base resolution on displays for the upcoming iPhone, and will keep...
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In the blink of an eye, the mobile app that delivers self-destructing messages has self-destructed by selling out to Yahoo. Yahoo has bought Blink for an undisclosed amount, and will soon pull the app from iTunes...
