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InternetNews
June 8, 2005
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Yahoo, Sprint Deliver Mobile E-Mail Yahoo becomes more mobile with a cheap e-mail service through the carrier. |
PC World
November 20, 2006
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Consumer Watch: Is That a Sales Pitch in Your Pocket? Get ready for the age of mobile marketing, coming soon to your cell phone. |
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Verizon Mulls Text Fee to Milk a Cash Cow While text messaging is booming, Verizon considers increased prices for bulk delivery. Will it send commercial customers running? |
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July 12, 2006
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Expert View: Hidden Costs Of Camera Phones For a camera phone owner, it's easy to collect dozens of pictures in a few days. After all, now you're carrying a camera everywhere. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2007
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Decipher Your Cell-Phone Bill Learn why cell phone users pay more than the low monthly charge they expected. |
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MSN, Vodafone Entwine IM Systems The content player and carrier will let European users message from phone to PC and back. |
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July 25, 2005
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Verizon Makes Picture Pact With Sprint The carriers' 70 million subscribers can now swap picture and video messages. |
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June 17, 2009
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Wireless Carriers Defend Text Message Pricing AT&T and Verizon defend text-message price hike and exclusive contracts on Capitol Hill. |
PC World
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Before You Buy a Cell Phone Today's wireless phones? Cool. Shopping for them? Complicated. Here's what you need to know about carriers, plans, data networks, contracts, and more. |
PC World
February 23, 2007
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Mystery Cell Phone Charges Cell phone customers increasingly complain -- and sue -- over mysterious, hard-to-cancel charges on their monthly bills. |
AFP eWire
January 31, 2005 |
Next Big Fundraising Trend: Giving Through Your Cell Phone Donors will soon be able to make charitable gifts by using their cell phones to send text messages. |
PC Magazine
July 15, 2010
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AT&T's Insane Service Plan Strategy The carrier's charges for feature phones and smartphones make no sense. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2002
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Celling Data Tricked-out cellphones can give you high-speed bandwidth for all your communications needs. |
PC World
April 22, 2008
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Unlimited Voice Calls: I'm Not Impressed Four major U.S. cell carriers offer all-you-can-eat voice-call plans, but they're pricey -- and the drawbacks abound. |
The Motley Fool
April 18, 2007
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Kids and Cell Phones If you're thinking about getting cell phones for your tweens -- kids between 8 and 12 -- you'll want to get both the right phone and the right calling plan to ensure you're not suddenly surprised by a bill full of charges for ringtones and games. |
InternetNews
September 10, 2008
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Sen. Kohl: Why Does Texting Cost So Much? Subcommittee Chairman Kohl warns of growing consolidation in wireless market. |
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Photo Messages on The Rise Research shows boost in camera phone transmissions, while other mobile features decline. |
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December 20, 2006 |
Selecting Your Cell Phone Service Choosing the right cell phone carrier and plan is just as important as picking the phone itself. Here's what you need to know before you go shopping. |
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June 2009
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How to Email Text Messages to Any Phone The key is to use what are known as SMS gateways. These are backdoors that transform other (usually less expensive) types of communications, such as e-mail and instant messages, into text messages. |
BusinessWeek
August 15, 2005
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Prepaid Cell Plans Sound Better Prepaid cell phones have come down to Earth. Lower costs and whizzier features may attract more fans -- especially finicky teens, skeptical seniors. |
InternetNews
November 21, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
In Pursuit of a Data Windfall Berggi lets owners of inexpensive mobile phones exchange e-mail and instant messages using free messaging services from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2007
Dave Mock |
Sprint Sees No Limits Sprint's new unlimited calling plan stands to revolutionize the wireless industry. |
AFP eWire
January 10, 2005 |
Instant Messaging: The Next Online Donation Tool? Even though you're probably not maximizing the potential of email with donors, are you recognizing that IM and mobile text messaging is rapidly catching up to email in usage? |
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August 31, 2007
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Text Messaging On Steroids Joopz is a Web site that lets you send SMS text messages from a Web browser. |
PC Magazine
August 2, 2006
Michael J. Miller |
The Phone as a Platform One of the coolest new phone applications I've seen uses GPS technology. Verizon's VZ Navigator works surprisingly well. |
AskMen.com
Michael Estrin |
Cell Phone Money-Saving Tips A cell phone can feel like a recurring and often growing expense. But rest assured that there are ways to minimize your fees. |
PC World
June 2006
Grace Aquino |
Pick the Perfect Cell Phone Palm Treo 700W PDA Phone... PalmOne Treo 650... RIM BlackBerry 8700c... RIM Blackberry 7130e... T-Mobile Sidekick II... 9300 PDA phone... LG F9200... Cingular 8125... T-Mobile MDA... T-Mobile SDA... SPH-A900 Cell Phone... etc. |
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Take the Sting Out of Subscription Services Have you run into problems with software that charges on a subscription basis? Our tips can help keep unpleasant surprises to a minimum. |
| AskMen.com |
The Texting Age About two-thirds of all teens use text messaging, mostly due to its simplicity as well as the privacy of being able to communicate without being overheard. |
PC Magazine
August 16, 2006
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Buying Guide: Cell Phones and Services for Kids New phones and services from Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, and the brand-new Disney Mobile give parents lots of control over how kids use their phones. |
The Motley Fool
February 19, 2008
Dave Mock |
Verizon and AT&T: No Limits? New plans by the two largest service providers in the U.S., offering unlimited talk, will change forever the wireless landscape. |
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September 24, 2008
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Will Android's Low-Cost G1 Mean a Price War? A lower price tag and cheaper plans are aimed at helping T-Mobile nab more market share - but are wider industry implications ahead? |
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April 2015
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Text Takes Precedence as a Customer Service Preference A new generation of consumers prefers short message service to other ways to reach agents. |
PC Magazine
November 19, 2009
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Your Free Phone Cost $240 Think you're getting a cell phone for free? No way. |
BusinessWeek
April 4, 2005
Roger O. Crockett |
Major Hangups Over The iPod Phone Cellular carriers are hesitant to sell the Apple-Motorola iPod phone. Here's why... |
InternetNews
November 10, 2005
Tim Gray |
IM Use Is Surging, Says (IM Provider) AOL The popularity of instant messaging continued to grow this year, as many Americans embraced the technology both for personal and business purposes, according to a new survey. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Verizon Is Paying Up For Stuffing Your Phone Bill With Bogus Charges Verizon is being ordered by the Federal Communications Commission to pay a $90 million settlement for stuffing extraneous charges into consumers' bills, according to TechCrunch |
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November 1, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Cingular Could be Next in Music Sweepstakes Cingular subscribers may soon be able to transfer digital music they consume from services such as Yahoo Music, and Napster, to their devices. |
PC World
June 20, 2007
Yardena Arar |
Phone Services Tame Voice Mail You have new ways to hear or read the messages that matter and skip those that don't. |
PC Magazine
September 15, 2003 |
Mass IM One billion messages here, one billion there, and soon you're a broadcaster. That's the thinking behind a new enterprise messaging service designed to turn instant messaging into instant broadcasting. |
The Motley Fool
October 1, 2009
Eric Jhonsa |
Net Neutrality: It's All About Wireless The FCC could upend the way that mobile carriers do business. |
InternetNews
September 12, 2008
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Wireless Data a Revenue Boost for Carriers A new survey of wireless industry growth reports steady, and somewhat astounding, leaps in subscriber base, revenue, cell site locations and even industry employee levels. |
Home Toys
August 2003
John Barrett |
Disconnected: Consumers and the Mobile Phone Industry Telecommunications companies have spent heavily on mobile phone technologies, but subscriber growth is slowing. The industry has not presented the technologies to consumers in a meaningful, attractive package. |
PHONE+
July 28, 2009
Cara Sievers |
Surprise Surcharges When comparing rates during the quoting process or working with a customer to decipher line items on bills, agents often come up against hidden charges and are forced to provide an explanation for the fees. |
PC World
August 2001
Michael S. Lasky |
E-Mail Now Arriving on Your Wrist Internet Messenger from Timex receives pages and short e-mail messages... |
PC World
March 2001
Tom Spring |
AOL, Yahoo Buddy Up to Wireless Messaging AOL Mobile Communicator; Motient ELink Fortified With Yahoo mobile IM services... |
PC Magazine
March 13, 2009
Zach Honig |
Verizon Hub The Verizon Hub can add a multi-featured home phone system to your Verizon Wireless account, but you'll pay a lot for what you get. |
