Category Archives: Phones

Phone jailbreaking should stay legal, Web freedom advocates say

By doris | Published: January 27, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Fresh from a victory that saw a pair of online-piracy bills shelved, Web-freedom advocates are now fighting to preserve their right to jailbreak their iPhones. The Electronic Freedom Foundation, a key player in the fight against the Stop Online Piracy Act, is urging people to ask the U.S. government [...]

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50 new tech tools you should know about

By doris | Published: January 26, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — You may have dozens of apps on your phone and scores of websites bookmarked on your laptop, but that doesn’t mean you have all the latest tech tools at your fingertips. New mobile apps, services, social networks and other digital tools pop up so frequently that keeping up with [...]

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The 10 best smartphones of the season

By doris | Published: November 28, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com With access to games, reading material, personal assistants and thousands of apps, people are spending a lot of times with their phones nowadays. So why not give the gift that keeps on giving? Here are our top smartphone picks for the big four U.S. carriers so you can make sure that [...]

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What Steve Jobs taught us: It’s OK to fail

By doris | Published: October 6, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com College dropout. Fired tech executive. Unsuccessful businessman. Steve Jobs will always be best known for his incredible success in guiding Apple Inc. and transforming the entire consumer computer and phone industry. But he’ll also be remembered fondly as the poster child for how making mistakes — and even failing — can [...]

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More people buying smartphones, mostly Android

By doris | Published: September 27, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com In a recent survey, more than half of people shopping for new phones chose smartphones. And the majority of those smartphones purchased in the past three months ran the Android operating system. While this suggests a very real surge in Android popularity, it also demonstrates a quirk of the iPhone buying [...]

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How to get an iTunes-like experience on Android

By doris | Published: September 19, 2011

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com If you used to use an iPod Touch for all of your music, but have an Android phone, maybe you’d like to carry only one device. With your iPod, you can just use iTunes to sync, organize and manage music, but there’s no one app that lets you manage everything on [...]

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Wall Street Week Ahead: Debt and data suggest more losses

By doris | Published: July 30, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo! News.com WASHINGTON (AP) — AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and four other telecom companies are offering a proposal to overhaul the $8 billion federal phone subsidy program to pay for high-speed Internet connections in rural and other underserved areas. They say the plan, which was filed with the Federal Communications Commission [...]

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EBay to buy mobile payments company Zong for $240M

By doris | Published: July 7, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — EBay Inc. is buying mobile payments provider Zong for about $240 million in cash so it can extend the reach of its PayPal online payments service. The online auctioneer said Thursday that Zong will help strengthen PayPal’s position in the mobile payments and digital goods markets. [...]

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Replace your digital camera with new myTouch 4G?

By doris | Published: July 6, 2011

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com As of July, you’ll have another option in the T-Mobile 4G smartphone world: HTC’s myTouch 4G Slide. Who knows if you’d really feel comfortable leaving your digital camera at home and replacing it with this, but it does comes with several camera-specific bells and whistles. The phone includes 8-megapixel camera with [...]

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Police talk with more parents about cell phone hacks

By doris | Published: July 5, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LONDON — British police are talking with the parents of other murdered children in a phone hacking scandal, and the private detective at the center of the tabloid hacking scandal Tueday issued an apology to all those “hurt or upset” by his activity. Glenn Mulcaire says Tuesday he was under “constant [...]

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Pop goes a new, but familiar looking, mobile phone accessory

By doris | Published: July 4, 2011

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com What’s old is new again, as a retro handset that looks a lot like something out of “Mad Men” is back, in bold, bright colors to plug into mobile phones as a kitschy, eye-catching accessory. Native Union’s Pop phone, by the French designer David Turpin, debuted in September and has since [...]

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Americans delay cell phone upgrades

By doris | Published: June 14, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com More Americans are delaying the purchase of a new cell phone because of the current economic slump, a new survey of recycled phones suggests. ReCellular, one of the world’s largest cell phone recyclers, collected about 5 million cell phonesfrom consumers in the United States and Canada in 2009. That is about [...]

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