Google's Motorola Mobility unit unveiled the highly anticipated Moto X smartphone on Thursday at an event themed around innovation, but many of the handset's highlighted features were similar to those on the recently announced Droid ...
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Motorola Mobility announced the 4.7-in. Moto X smartphone on Thursday after weeks of build-up that touted the device as the first made from scratch under Google ownership. Still, analysts said that build-up didn't exactly crowd out this ...
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AT&T's Next smartphone and tablet upgrade and no-contract plan, announced Tuesday, competes with a similar plan called Jump! from T-Mobile and another expected soon from Verizon Wireless. Verizon is reportedly working on a no-contract ...
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Several smartphone launches are imminent, including next Tuesday's Verizon Wireless event in New York City to unveil what the carrier's calling "the next generation of one of their most popular family of devices." Other smartphones ...
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IDG News Service - The two biggest mobile operators in the U.S. are fiercely competitive and closely matched in size. So will AT&T's proposed multibillion-dollar acquisition of Leap Wireless change the balance? Market figures and ...
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Verizon Wireless became the first U.S. carrier to join the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, but it is not clear whether it will eventually promote phones running the open-source Ubuntu OS on its network. Canonical, the company behind the ...
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SoftBank plans to invest $16 billion in capital improvements at Sprint in the next two years, CEO Masayoshi Son said days before the acquisition closes on Wednesday. Separately, as expected, Clearwire's shareholders on Monday approved ...
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved the $21.6 billion acquisition of Sprint by Japanese telecommunications group Softbank, saying it promises to bring consumers faster and more advanced wireless broadband Internet ...
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Verizon Wireless has completed the initial rollout of its 4G LTE network, covering 95% of the U.S. population, and is now looking to reuse other spectrum for LTE and deploy small cells using the technology. On Thursday, in Parkersburg, W. ...
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In its newest TV ads, Verizon Wireless brags that it has "America's largest 4G LTE network" -- an obvious response to AT&T's claim that if offers "the nation's fastest 4G LTE network." In the continuing war between the nation's two ...
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Sprint shareholders Tuesday set the stage for a potentially massive change in the wireless carrier competitive landscape by approving SoftBank's bid to buy 78%of the company for$21.6 billion. Sprint can use cash from the Softbank deal to ...
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Spanish operator Telefonica is worried about the Android-iOS smartphone duopoly, and has joined with Microsoft in a marketing blitz that it hopes will convince consumers to pick up smartphones based on Windows Phone. For one year, ...
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Dish Network has dropped its offer to buy Clearwire, probably clearing the path for a strengthened Sprint Nextel to complete its takeover of the struggling but spectrum-rich mobile operator. Both SoftBank's US$21.6 billion acquisition of ...
The emerging IEEE 802.11ac wireless LAN standard will be able to deliver faster connections wherever it's used, but the biggest benefit may come at public hotspots -- eventually. On Wednesday, the Wi-Fi Alliance started certifying ...
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Taiwan's HTC has unveiled an updated version of its 5-inch Butterfly smartphone that comes equipped with a bigger battery, more powerful processor and the company's BlinkFeed homescreen. The Butterfly s, introduced Wednesday, appears to ...
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