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[telecom] Deciphering the Decline in Spanish Mobile Accounts
Deciphering the Decline in Spanish Mobile Accounts By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN December 23, 2012 BERLIN - It would take the unimaginable - a major power outage, a natural disaster or a sudden, permanent loss...
 
Is Paying to Message Strangers a New Texting Business? [telecom]
Is Paying to Message Strangers a New Texting Business? By BRIAN X. CHEN DECEMBER 24, 2012 Cellphone carriers are making less money from text messages thanks to free messaging services offered by...
 
[telecom] All the World's a Game, and Business Is a Player
All the World's a Game, and Business Is a Player By NICK WINGFIELD December 23, 2012 Congratulations. Reading the first paragraph of this article has earned you a badge. If this made-up award makes...
 
[telecom] Businesses, consumers are discovering that apps can expose private data to outsiders
Businesses discover the dark side of apps Some programs expose secret data By Michael B. Farrell | GLOBE STAFF DECEMBER 24, 2012 Beware of the app. The digital downloads that fill smartphones and...
 
[telecom] 2012 in Review: EFF's Fight Against Secret Surveillance Law
DECEMBER 22, 2012 | BY MARK RUMOLD 2012 in Review: EFF's Fight Against Secret Surveillance Law As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2012...
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E-book restrictions leave 'buyers' with few rights [telecom]
E-book restrictions leave 'buyers' with few rights Unlike the owners of a physical tome, buyers of e-books are licensees with lots of limitations. It's time to change the rules. By Michael Hiltzik...
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Sprint Nextel Reaches a Deal to Buy Rest of Clearwire [telecom]
BY MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED Sprint Nextel agreed Monday to buy all of the wireless network operator Clearwire, an important step for the cellphone service provider as it continues its big turnaround...
 
Sprint, Clearwire, Softbank, Dish: Who's Playing Whom? [telecom]
If Sprint really wants to buy Clearwire, why did it low-ball its offer, and why is Softbank reportedly choking off Sprint's bargaining power? Analyst Tim Farrar thinks there is more to this deal, and...
 
Could Verizon nix unlimited data for everyone? [telecom]
Verizon Wireless isn't making it easy for loyal, longtime smartphone customers to keep their existing unlimited data plans. And now some subscribers, who are willing to pony up the full price for a...
 
Vodafone Debt Ratings Increasingly Dependent on Verizon Wireless Payouts [telecom]
Published on: 28th Nov 2012 Fitch Ratings says that it has affirmed Vodafone Group's Long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'A-', but warned that this is increasingly dependent on dividends from its...
 
Verizon Wireless Loses Appeal Against Mobile Data Roaming Regulations [telecom]
Verizon Wireless has lost an attempt to block a regulatory rule requiring it to offer wholesale mobile data roaming rates to other mobile networks. The regulator, the FCC already required such...
 
U.S. mobile buyouts may meet their end in 2013 [telecom]
U.S. mobile buyouts may meet their end in 2013 By Stephen Lawson December 21, 2012 05:06 PM ET IDG News Service - After starting amid the smoldering ruins of AT&T and T-Mobile USA's failed merger,...
 
[telecom] Wells Fargo's website buckles under flood of traffic
Wells Fargo's website buckles under flood of traffic By Jeremy Kirk December 20, 2012 10:55 PM ET In a statement, a bank spokeswoman described the issue as "An unusually high volume of traffic" that...
 
[telecom] Stabuniq malware found on servers at U.S. financial institutions
Stabuniq malware found on servers at U.S. financial institutions IDG News Service - Security researchers from Symantec have identified an information-stealing Trojan program that was used to infect...
 
[telecom] Instagram Does an About-Face
Instagram Does an About-Face By NICOLE PERLROTH and JENNA WORTHAM DECEMBER 20, 2012, 8:30 PM SAN FRANCISCO - In the aftermath of the uproar over changes to Instagram's privacy policy and terms of...
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