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Apple Launches New iPhone Ads (VIDEO)

Posted 11.24.2009 | Technology

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Two new iPhone ads have debuted, both touting the smartphone's ability to handle simultaneous voice and data connection in different scenarios. The...

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Samsung Omnia 2: Verizon Phone Coming December 2, Rumors Show

Engadget | Posted 11.20.2009 | Technology

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It may no longer be the first to launch in North America (that distinct honor now belongs to Bell), but we can finally say with some confidence that V...

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Verizon iPhone: Apple Rumored To Launch "Worldmode" iPhone In Q3 2010

AppleInsider | Posted 11.07.2009 | Technology

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A new report citing sources in the Taiwan handset supply chain says Apple has contracted to produce a UMTS/CDMA hybrid iPhone due in the third quarter...

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New Sports Fans Lobby Entering Telecom Wars

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business

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Verizon is among several telecom giants launching a new advocacy group purported to be a lobby for sports fans -- pressing lawmakers on issues such as...

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SEC Changes the Game on CEO Succession

Alicia Whitaker | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

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Alicia Whitaker

Shareholders can now challenge the board to learn more about plans for CEO succession. This is one more action that will make it less likely that the CEO can fill the board with good old boys.

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Verizon Droid Review: First Look At iPhone Rival

CNET Blogs | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology

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Hooray! We finally have the Motorola Droid in our hands. Though it's much too early to offer a full critique, we can report that Verizon's first Googl...

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Verizon On iPhone: 'We Obviously Would Be Interested,' Says Verizon CEO

WSJ | Posted 10.26.2009 | Technology

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In fact, it's not up to the carrier, suggested Ivan Seidenberg, chief executive of Verizon Communications. "This is a decision that is exclusively in ...

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The Net Neutrality Quandry for Big Telecom: Fight or Deal?

Art Brodsky | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Verizon, Julius Genachowski, Fcc, AT&T, Net Neutrality, Media News
Art Brodsky

Big Telecom is used to winning, and winning big. And yesterday, they lost as the FCC approved a Net neutrality proposed rule.

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Suck on This, Apple Fanboys

eSarcasm | Posted 10.22.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Droid Does, Verizon, Apple Iphone, Apple, Google Android, Android, Verizon Wireless, Miley Cyrus, Megan Fox, Jon and Kate, Lindsay Lohan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Comedy News
eSarcasm

Hey, we love a good cat fight as much as the next guy. And if anyone should get into a hair pulling, face-clawing, blood-on-the-floor tussle, it might as well be Apple and Verizon.

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Big Telecom Wants to Squash the Free Internet, Starting Now

Art Brodsky | Posted 10.19.2009 | Technology

Read More: Internet, Verizon, Comcast, Fcc, AT&T, Barack Obama, Net Neutrality, Technology News
Art Brodsky

Republicans and Democrats are sending hostile letters to the FCC all in the cause of making sure that AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and the rest can run the Internet the way they want to and to hell with the way the it has developed.

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"There's A Map For That": New Verizon Ad Mocks AT&T (VIDEO)

Posted 10.06.2009 | Technology

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*See video below* The wireless wars are getting uglier. Verizon Wireless just released a snarky new ad that knocks AT&T's spotty service -- and this ...

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Google, Verizon Team Up To Challenge The iPhone: Bing Could Benefit (UPDATED)

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 10.07.2009 | Technology

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NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless said Tuesday it will put substantial resources into developing and selling phones that use Google Inc.'s Android sof...

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Pearl Jam Is No. 1

Tamara Conniff | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Verizon, Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam, Verizon Wireless, Los Angeles, Target Stores, Sony Music, Concert, Ticketmaster, Radiohead, Entertainment News
Tamara Conniff

Pearl Jam is probably one of the few bands of this generation who didn't sell out, who didn't say "how high," when the label said "jump."

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Verizon: Palm Pre Phone Is Coming, Insider Reports

SlashGear | Posted 09.28.2009 | Technology

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After rumors late last week that Verizon had turned their collective noses up at the Palm Pre, put off by poor sales performance and a preference for ...

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iRex: Best Buy And Verizon Release New E-Book Reader

nytimes.com | BRAD STONE | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books

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The budding market for electronic reading devices is about to get two powerful new entrants: Best Buy and Verizon. On Wednesday, iRex Technologies, a...

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Over the Verizon

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Cell Phones, Verizon, Daughter, Cell Phone Problems, Verizon Wireless, Wait Times, Delivery, Customer Service, Fed Ex, Living News
Abby L. Ferber

Where does all of my time go? For the past few days, my work has been interrupted by cell phone "issues."

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The Verizon-Citi Visa Scam

Charles Warner | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Citibank, Blackberry, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, Rebate, Citigroup, Rebate Card, Business News
Charles Warner

How is Citi going to pay the government back? One way is to find new, underhanded ways to get Visa cards into people's wallets.

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Newsday Rejects Verizon Ads After Cablevision Deal

New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

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Verizon Communications bought full-page ads in Newsday several times a month for its FiOS Internet and television service until a few months ago, when...

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Is Verizon Getting the iPhone?

Ron Galloway | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

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Ron Galloway

With AT&T's exclusivity agreement due to expire in the next year, pressure is mounting amongst Verizon customers and shareholders for Verizon to come to some sort of agreement with Apple.

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Comcast To Sell Ads For Verizons FiOS TV

AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media

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PHILADELPHIA — Setting aside their rivalry in the interests of business, Comcast Corp. said Wednesday it will sell advertising for Verizon Commu...

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You're Gonna Love the Digital Transition

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media

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<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Today we all become digital. Thanks to Congress, all analog life in these United States will cease and everything will be transformed from waves and particles into bits and bytes.

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Must The Blind Lead The Blind?

Julia Moulden | Posted 06.16.2009 | Living

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Julia Moulden

Clearly, something big and important is going on. A major shift in the way people think about work. Might we consider welcoming the people who want to be the New Radicals with open arms?

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Metering: The End of The Internet As You Know It

Josh Silver | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, AT&T, Net Neutrality, Media News
Josh Silver

Should the companies that deliver Internet be allowed to block it, slow it down, or in the current case of Time Warner, overcharge for it?

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Apple, Verizon Wireless Deal In The Works: Report

BusinessWeek | Spencer E. Ante and Arik Hesseldahl | Posted 05.29.2009 | Business

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Verizon Wireless is warming to the idea of an Apple (AAPL) partnership. Verizon Wireless is in talks with Apple to distribute two new iPhone-like devi...

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The Day of Sharing

Wayne Kramer | Posted 05.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Music Streaming, Record Executives, MP3 Downloads, Isp, Internet Music Streaming, Music Downloading, Internet Service Providers, DISH Network, Music-Downloading, Att, File-Sharing, Comcast, AT&T, Music File Downlaods, MP4 Downloads, Music Downloads, Verizon, Computers, File Sharing, Cox, Internet Music Downloading, Internet Music, Atandt, Isps, John Mellencamp, Bono, CNET Digital Media, Media News
Wayne Kramer

That the recording industry is in the toilet is no surprise. How is it that artists don't see the solution?

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