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Article | 17/04/2013 EU digital rights groups demand net neutrality protection
More than 80 European digital rights organizations on Wednesday called on the European Commission to do more to protect net neutrality.
Article | 17/04/2013 Payleven launches person-to-person card payments in Europe
Germany-based card payments startup Payleven is going to make its chip-and-PIN service available to individuals, the company said on Wednesday.
Article | 17/04/2013 ACLU complains to FTC that mobile carriers leave Android phones unsecured
Smartphones with custom versions of Android offered by large mobile operators in the U.S. are not getting security updates as regularly as phones from...
Article | 16/04/2013 Facebook readies iOS app update featuring 'Chat Heads' messaging
Chat Heads, the buzzy messaging feature released as part of Facebook's Home software for Android-based smartphones, is now coming to the iPhone and iP...
Article | 16/04/2013 Xamarin hopes to simplify mobile app testing with new service
Xamarin has announced Test Cloud, an automated service that lets mobile developers test their apps on hundreds of mobile devices.
Article | 16/04/2013 Alcatel-Lucent, Telefónica trial 100, 200 and 400G bps links on live network
Alcatel-Lucent and Telefónica in Spain have successfully completed a trial that sent a mixture of 100Gbps, 200Gbps and 400Gbps data links over a singl...
Article | 15/04/2013 Boston cell networks stay online after blasts
Cellular networks in Boston were still operating on Monday evening following the explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, contrary to e...
Article | 15/04/2013 Report: Verizon wants to buy Clearwire spectrum
Verizon Wireless reportedly has offered US$1 billion to $1.5 billion for some of Clearwire's spectrum leases, possibly complicating Sprint Nextel's at...
Article | 15/04/2013 Find My Mac both useful and frustrating for law enforcement
Find My Mac can be used to show the location of a stolen Mac, but the service often does not provide enough evidence to obtain a search warrant and ge...
Article | 15/04/2013 Dish Network launches $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel
Dish Network has made a US$25.5 billion bid to acquire wireless operator Sprint Nextel, hoping to edge out a rival bid from Japanese operator SoftBank...
Article | 12/04/2013 MetroPCS gives shareholders more time to consider T-Mobile bid
MetroPCS has pushed back a hotly anticipated shareholder meeting that will decide the fate of the carrier's proposed merger with T-Mobile USA.
Article | 12/04/2013 Solar flare blacks out some radios, but the end is not (necessarily) near
Don't set your Google Inactive Account Manager just yet, but there are billions of tons of solar matter hurtling toward the Earth at more than 600 mil...
Article | 10/04/2013 Report: Deutsche Telekom OKs richer T-Mobile bid for MetroPCS
A sweeter offer for the merger of T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS reportedly has been approved by T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom.
Article | 10/04/2013 Wandera eyes enterprise data roaming costs
Eyeing the sometimes considerable data roaming bills that companies receive, a startup called Wandera launched a service Wednesday that promises to cu...
Article | 10/04/2013 T-Mobile offers iPhone 5 at no upfront payment in trade-in deal
T-Mobile USA is trying to boost the number of iPhone users on its network by offering the iPhone 5 without down payment to people who bring in their i...