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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 21, 2014
Verizon Communications reported an 8 percent year-over-year increase in wireless service revenues in the fourth quarter of 2013, which was helped in part by adding 1.7 million mobile subscribers. The wireless carrier is now home to 102.8...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Jan 11, 2014
It's mighty convenient to load up a mobile banking app with a slick interface as opposed to logging into the website via your smartphone's web browser, but in doing so, you may inadvertently be putting yourself at a greater risk of...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 06, 2014
Mobile is red hot right now, and that includes the smartphone market. That doesn't figure to change this year, though it will be interesting to see if Intel can wrestle some market share away from ARM, which so far has dominated the...
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Rob Williams - Fri, Jan 03, 2014
Tablets that are built with children in mind are far from being a new idea, but if I were a parent, I couldn't imagine dealing with the chore of figuring out which one was actually worth it. It's not just the hardware that matters, but...
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Rob Williams - Tue, Dec 24, 2013
Just in time for the gift-giving season, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted two patents to Apple - one of which was filed way back in 2008. The first patent is number 8,614,693, titled "Touch and hover signal drift...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 20, 2013
Word around the web is that Samsung is getting ready to refresh its Galaxy line of mobile devices. It looks like the South Korean electronics maker will add three "Galaxy Pro" tablets to its portfolio sometime in the first quarter of Q1, along with a "Galaxy Lite" slate, the only one of the...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Dec 16, 2013
Samsung kicked off the work week by announcing another Galaxy smartphone slated for a 2014 release, though it's not a device for mobile phone enthusiasts. Instead, the Galaxy Core Advance is designed to extend the "Galaxy experience" to a...
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Rob Williams - Mon, Dec 09, 2013
As we inch closer to the launch of Google Glass for consumers, the legalities surrounding the device continue to come into question. In October, we relayed the story of a Californian driver who was pulled over for going over the speed...
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Rob Williams - Sun, Dec 01, 2013
If you have ever lost a mobile phone, or worse, had one stolen, an announcement out of CTIA this week might bring a little bit of comfort. A global, multi-carrier database for tracking lost or stolen phones has now been completed, which...
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Rob Williams - Sat, Nov 30, 2013
At the end of any given year, it's usually pretty easy to draw up a list of things that the past 12 months will go down in history for. While there are a number of things that could make 2013's list, on the technology side of things...
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Rob Williams - Fri, Nov 29, 2013
Over the years, as our mobile phones transformed into full-blown computers, many have become very reliant on them. We can use them to take notes, message friends, play games, browse the Web, take quick photos, and of course, shop - and...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Nov 27, 2013
When it comes to waiting for ports, mobile gamers sometimes have it worse than the PC crowd. How so? Consider that while PC gamers are chomping at the bit (or "champing," if you want to avoid a citation from the grammar police) to play...
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Rob Williams - Sat, Nov 16, 2013
This past summer, Google unveiled one of its coolest (and craziest) projects to date. Called "Project Loon", Google hopes that in time, balloons might help bring the Internet to parts of the world where it's just not common, or affordable...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Nov 11, 2013
Remember when pagers were all the rage? Times have changed since then, and in place of pagers, most people now own smartphones. According to data presented in the most recent Ericcson Mobility Report, the number of mobile subscriptions...
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Rob Williams - Fri, Nov 08, 2013
Motorola might not be the dominant force it once was, but it sure does know how to get people talking. Its latest patent does more than enough to make that happen, because it's yet another one of those ideas that seems to be pulled...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Oct 28, 2013
Prior to the Internet, we all watched our favorite TV shows and movies on these big, bulky television sets with curved glass and just a handful of channels to flip through, even on cable. Television viewing has evolved over time, and now...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 24, 2013
AT&T said it raked in $32.2 billion in consolidated revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2013, up 2 percent versus the same time period a year ago. Ma Bell also posted $26 billion in operating expenses, $6.2 billion in...
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Rob Williams - Wed, Oct 23, 2013
It looks like mobile-on-PC gaming is about to get a major boost, thanks to a new partnership between Big Fish Games and BlueStacks. Didn't realize mobile-on-PC gaming was even a thing? Well, thanks to BlueStacks, which offers what's in...
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Rob Williams - Mon, Oct 21, 2013
Despite having risen to popularity only a few years ago, it's become increasingly clear that electric vehicles are the future. Versus gas-powered vehicles, electric ones are safer on the environment (this is oft-debated...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 15, 2013
We're being bombarded by gadgets and mobile electronic devices that offer persistent online connectivity, and if you're a parent, that means having to decide when to allow your child to have access to certain gear, like computers, tablets...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Oct 11, 2013
Cookies are the most popular way of tracking Internet users today, but by this time next year, they could be old news. We already know that Google is planning to replace cookies with something else, and there's chatter that Apple and Facebook will follow suit as well. Now we've learned that...
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Rob Williams - Fri, Oct 11, 2013
The issues of security and privacy should always be on our minds, but ever since the revelation of NSA spying played out this past summer, those issues have been forced to the forefront - impossible to avoid. In reality, that's a great...
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