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Motorola to Integrate Yahoo! Web Services

July 22, 2006

Motorola to Integrate Yahoo! Web Services
Motorola announced today that it will embed Yahoo services on tens of millions of phones. Yahoo! Go for Mobile integrates a suite of Yahoo!’s leading services including Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Address Book and Yahoo! Local into a single application that connects consumers to their personalized Internet experience through [...]

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Cingular Sued for Deception

July 11, 2006

Cingular Sued for Deception
Cingular promised to provide uninterrupted service to AT&T Wireless customers when it acquired that company in 2004, but instead it nickel-and-dimed them and degraded their reception in an effort to persuade them to sign new contracts, according to a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of those customers.
The lawsuit claims consumers faced excessive [...]

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Review: Sanyo 6600 Katana

July 10, 2006

Review: Sanyo 6600 Katana
When the Samsung MM-A900 arrived from Sprint late last year, News.com called it Samsung’s answer to the Motorola Razr, thanks to its slim shape and similar, flip-phone design. Fast-forward several months, and Sprint has yet another Razr competitor on its hands: the Sanyo 6600 Katana. Having named it after a type of [...]

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Sprint Releases Sanyo SCP-2400 with Parental Controls

June 30, 2006

Sprint Releases Sanyo SCP-2400 with Parental Controls
To help parents stay connected with their children and maintain some control of their children’s wireless phone usage, Sprint today introduce the Sanyo SCP-2400.
Offering free parental control features, the SCP-2400 allows parents to easily manage whom the child calls and who can call the child. A parent simply enters [...]

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Verizon is reducing fee for contract termination

June 29, 2006

Verizon is reducing fee for contract termination
Good news for consumers. Verizon Wireless said Wednesday (6/28/2006) it would reduce the $175 in fees its customers pay to get out of cellphone contracts, setting a precedent among major carriers at a time when consumers and regulators are putting pressure on the industry to change its practices.
Starting [...]

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