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Sprint's New Smartphone Fee -- How 'Bout a Little Honesty? Memo to Sprint: If you want to raise your smartphone rates, just raise 'em -- don't play games and make us guess how much we're going to pay.
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Samsung Hints at Next-Generation Galaxy S Smartphone The company is promising the arrival of "something big" on Feb. 13, and shows an obscured image of the upcoming device next to the Samsung Galaxy S.
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Need Unhackable, Large-Capacity Data Storage? Try Your Large Intestine Hong Kong student team has made advances in the art of "biostorage"--storing data in the DNA of bacterial cells.
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HP's Upcoming WebOS Tablet Appears in Leaked Images The pictures show a slim, sleek, pearly black tablet, a sleek evolution of Palm's original design of the Pre smartphone.
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If Youre Not Networking, Youre Not Social 'Young and Digital' researcher says schools, health care, home and work all need to change to keep up with trends in communications.
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iPad Owners Want Free (Ad-Supported) Content The vast majority of iPad owners are happy to watch advertising to gain access to content rather than pay, a study has found.
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Can Facebook Learn from Apple? A security firm says Facebook should overhaul its third-party developer program and require that every app go through an approval process.
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Sprint Jacks Smartphone Data Plan Up By $10 Per Month Sprint jacks the rates of its data plan by more than 14 percent starting in Jan. 30.
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Nintendo 3DS Live Event to Reveal U.S. Launch Date and Pricing Nintendo set to reveal North American and European 'no-glasses' 3D gaming handheld release dates, pricing, and launch game lineup.
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Facebook Photos: Opt-Out or Tag You're It 100 million people tag photos each day on Facebook. One month after Facebook launched its facial recognition feature, non-users may still not be aware that Facebook's photo tagging could be broadcasting their faces.
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Starbucks Expands Mobile Payment System to All Stores Coffee drinkers with iPhones, iPod Touches or certain BlackBerry devices can pay for their cup of joe with a smartphone app.
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Apple's New Boss Calls Android Tablets Bizarre Tim Cook didn't hold back, as he also called the upcoming array of Android tablets "vapor."
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Only 10% of Doctors Using Complete eHealth Records Systems, Surveys Find While there has been a marked increase in the number of doctors using electronic health records (EHRs) over the past two years, the overall number of fully-functional systems remains in the high single digits to low double digits.
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