AT&T sets deadline for 2G sunset in 4 years
Boston Globe
NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. said Friday that the shutdown of its second-generation, or ''2G,'' wireless network will be complete by the end of 2016, a process that will force customers with older phonesto upgrade to ''3G'' or ''4G'' handsets. In a ...
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CNET
They make your phone connect to it and put their BTS into a mode that accepts all phones and turn off encryption," said Don Bailey, a mobile expert at Capitol Hill Consultants. "The phone thinks it's connected...and they can intercept outgoing phone ...
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MarketWatch
BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Although Apple Inc. popularized the smartphone and still holds the dominant position insofar as the cool factor goes, Samsung Electronics Co. has become a bear of a company releasing phone after phone in rapid ...
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Windows Phone's Market Share Spikes, but Will It Matter?
New York Times (blog)
A new report on the state of the smartphone market shows that Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system has gained some traction. But for Microsoft and its hardware partner, Nokia, it's unclear whether the good times will last. Canalys, the research ...
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Windows Phone 7 Sales Are Starting to Gain Traction: Canalys Report
eWeek
The research firm Canalys reports that sales of Windows Phone 7-powered devices jumped by 277 percent in the second quarter of 2012 to 5.1 million units, from 1.3 million in the second quarter of 2011. WP7's market share grew to 3.2 percent from 1.2 ...
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Boston Globe
NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. said Friday that the shutdown of its second-generation, or ''2G,'' wireless network will be complete by the end of 2016, a process that will force customers with older phonesto upgrade to ''3G'' or ''4G'' handsets. In a ...
See all stories on this topic »Pwned or paranoid? Phone weirdness at Defcon
CNET
They make your phone connect to it and put their BTS into a mode that accepts all phones and turn off encryption," said Don Bailey, a mobile expert at Capitol Hill Consultants. "The phone thinks it's connected...and they can intercept outgoing phone ...
See all stories on this topic »Rethinking the smartphone
MarketWatch
BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Although Apple Inc. popularized the smartphone and still holds the dominant position insofar as the cool factor goes, Samsung Electronics Co. has become a bear of a company releasing phone after phone in rapid ...
See all stories on this topic »
| Majority of cell phone owners still experience dropped calls, Pew poll finds SlashGear There's no question that cell phones have made our lives easier, but they can also sometimes cause some pretty big headaches. Dropped calls, for instance, are always a major annoyance, and a new poll from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds... See all stories on this topic » |  SlashGear |
New York Times (blog)
A new report on the state of the smartphone market shows that Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system has gained some traction. But for Microsoft and its hardware partner, Nokia, it's unclear whether the good times will last. Canalys, the research ...
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| Find My Phone Slate Magazine Pogue used Find My iPhone, an application that uses GPS signaling to allow users to view the location of their iPhone from a computer or other device, to pinpoint the location of his phone. He then tweeted the location to 1.4 million Twitter followers ... See all stories on this topic » |  Slate Magazine |
| 5 spots mark stationary phones' history San Francisco Chronicle From candlestick phones to the panels of a central office switch and the clacking of teletype equipment (the original text messaging), this interactive collection provides a fascinating history of the equipment we once used to communicate. Don't miss ... See all stories on this topic » |  San Francisco Chronicle |
eWeek
The research firm Canalys reports that sales of Windows Phone 7-powered devices jumped by 277 percent in the second quarter of 2012 to 5.1 million units, from 1.3 million in the second quarter of 2011. WP7's market share grew to 3.2 percent from 1.2 ...
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