Items by By SAUL HANSELL
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Underdog Palm Takes on Giants in Smartphones
Posted: November 15th, 2009, 8:39pm EST by By SAUL HANSELL
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If the market has room only for a few smartphone standards, Palm could well find itself struggling as the perpetual also-ran.
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Is There a Method in Cellphone Madness?
Posted: November 14th, 2009, 3:56pm EST by By SAUL HANSELL
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Despite all those wild pricing plans, American cellphone users spend about 5 cents a minute on talk time and a penny a text message — lower than anywhere else in the developed world.
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Dell Will Introduce a Smartphone
Posted: November 14th, 2009, 12:53am EST by By SAUL HANSELL
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Dell’s first phone will be called the Mini 3 and run on Google’s Android operating system.
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AT&T Reverses Policy on iPhone Internet Calls
Posted: October 7th, 2009, 1:48am EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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AT&T said it would not prevent iPhone users from using Web telephone services that bypass its own voice network.
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Bits: Verizon Backs Google’s Android
Posted: October 6th, 2009, 3:12pm EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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Google now has support for Android on all the major wireless carriers in the United States, except AT&T, the home of the iPhone.
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To Start, Push the Windows Logo Button
Posted: October 6th, 2009, 4:39am EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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Microsoft has turned to the marketer who came up with the Staples “Easy Button” to help revive its ailing cellphone software business.
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Sprint Banks on WiMax to Win Back Market Share
Posted: September 27th, 2009, 11:10pm EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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The next generation of mobile technology promises to deliver faster Internet service, and Sprint is aiming to be first on the scene.
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F.C.C. Seeks to Protect Free Flow of Internet Data
Posted: September 18th, 2009, 11:28pm EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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The proposal would expand and formalize rules meant to keep Internet providers from discriminating against certain content flowing over their networks.
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Motorola Phone Focuses on Social Networks
Posted: September 10th, 2009, 6:30pm EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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The company hopes the new phone, called the Cliq, will reverse its plummeting cellphone sales.
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Like Apple, TV Explores Must-Have Applications
Posted: September 6th, 2009, 11:52pm EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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DirecTV and Verizon have app stores. Other cable, satellite and phone companies are working on new technology, but the industry is still wrestling with many questions.
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Apple Denies It Rejected Google Application for iPhone
Posted: August 21st, 2009, 11:42pm EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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Apple told the F.C.C. it is still studying the iPhone application, in part because of privacy concerns.
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A Lawsuit Tries to Get at Hackers Through the Banks They Attack
Posted: August 20th, 2009, 1:41am EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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The hope of a volunteer group called Unspam Technologies is that knowing more about data thefts and victims will help improve security.
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F.C.C. Weighs Need for New Cellphone Handset Rules
Posted: August 10th, 2009, 3:17am EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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The federal government has always been involved in wireless networks but until now has rarely overseen the devices themselves.
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Cost Cutting Helps Motorola Post a Small Profit
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 4:56pm EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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The company’s improved performance was largely the result of strict cost controls rather than increased sales.
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Sprint Nextel Loss Widens as Subscribers Decline
Posted: July 29th, 2009, 9:01pm EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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Business customers, normally the company’s most loyal and profitable segment, have been canceling large blocks of wireless lines.
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Start-Up Plans to Make Journalism Pirates Pay Up
Posted: July 26th, 2009, 8:31pm EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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Wire services and newspapers are trying to take a slice of the ad revenue from sites that copy news articles.
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Daring to Dream of a Resurgent AOL
Posted: July 23rd, 2009, 3:00am EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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Tim Armstrong, chief executive of AOL, wants to make the company the biggest creator of premium content on the Web and the largest seller of online display advertising.
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Verizon Plans to Offer Some of Its Cellphones to Small Wireless Companies
Posted: July 17th, 2009, 10:11pm EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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Verizon is trying to head off federal regulation of exclusive cellphone deals.
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Bits: Verizon Defends Exclusive Handsets
Posted: July 17th, 2009, 5:18pm EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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Verizon Wireless essentially tells Congress: please don’t make Apple sell us the iPhone because we want to have the next cool phone and keep it from AT&T.
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For Talking Heads, a Spot to Relax and Sip Coffee, on Webcam
Posted: February 16th, 2009, 1:04am EST by By SAUL HANSELL
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Fox’s live Webcast “The Strategy Room” resembles ABC’s “The View” mixed with a dash of Rush Limbaugh and a generous helping of “Wayne’s World.”
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Bits: Obama Renovates WhiteHouse.gov
Posted: January 20th, 2009, 4:08pm EST by By SAUL HANSELL
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At noon, the White House site switched to the Obama version with a promise of a new age of transparency.
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With a Digital Stereo, Cisco Systems Is Starting a Push Into Home Electronics
Posted: December 29th, 2008, 1:30am EST by By SAUL HANSELL
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The dominant provider of the digital pipes that run the Internet is making a big play in digital entertainment.
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Bits: Amazon’s Team of Rivals
Posted: December 5th, 2008, 9:49am EST by By SAUL HANSELL
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Amazon has done something improbable: it features direct competitors on its own site.
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Bits: Amazon Tries User-Generated P.R.
Posted: November 26th, 2008, 8:04am EST by By SAUL HANSELL
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Who do you trust more for holiday gift tips: Amazon.com employees or customers who get free trips and merchandise?.
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Verizon Wireless Plans to Charge Companies Sending Text Messages
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 10:11pm EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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Verizon told companies that send out text messages that starting Nov. 1 it will impose a fee of 3 cents for each message it delivers to the phones of its subscribers.
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F.C.C. Chief Backs Sanctions Against Comcast Over Blocking
Posted: July 11th, 2008, 9:48pm EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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Kevin J. Martin’s recommendation is a strong statement in favor of network neutrality, the idea that Internet access providers should not be allowed to favor some uses of their networks over others.
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Bits: iRiver and the Portable Media Player Market
Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 10:43am EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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IRiver, a maker of mobile media players, is trying to make a comeback with some innovative new devices, but it's unclear whether the company can gain traction against big players like Apple, Microsoft, Nokia and Google.
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Bits: Implications of ‘Daily Show’ Webcasting
Posted: May 29th, 2008, 9:13am EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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Some cable systems are starting to complain that too many of the programs they pay for are being given away on the Web for free.
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Bits: Can Facebook Build a Better Passport?
Posted: May 9th, 2008, 8:07pm EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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Facebook said that it will let users bring information from their profiles onto other sites. It is also reviving the possibility of a universal logon, an idea tried unsuccessfully years ago by Microsoft.
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Amazon Sues Over State Law on Collection of Sales Tax
Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 1:30pm EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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The lawsuit raises questions over whether vendors who are not physically present in New York State should collect tax on behalf of the state.
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Bits: The $199 iPhone? Something’s Missing
Posted: April 29th, 2008, 10:43pm EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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A report says AT&T will subsidize the new iPhone model to sell it for $199. What it doesn’t say is whether monthly data fees will rise at the same time.
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Bits: Bebo: Randy Falco’s Rescue Plan for AIM
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 11:13am EDT by By SAUL HANSELL
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AOL has announced it will spend $850 million in cash to buy Bebo. The main benefit of the deal is that it can shore up AOL’s large AIM instant message system.