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| Verizon Wireless to buy Rural Cellular for $2.67 billion |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 1:50 pm |
| Tags: Merger, Rcc, Rural Wireless, Ruralwireless, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, Verizonwireless |
| This time around, we've got Verizon Wireless doing the acquiring, as it has just announced plans to pay $2.67 billion for "one of the nation's largest rural carriers," Rural Cellular. The news comes just over a month after AT&T handed over a staggering amount of its own to pick up Dobson Communications, and this agreement will expand the |
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| How Much Is RIM To Blame For No CDMA CameraBerrys? |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 9:58 am |
| Tags: Verizon, Sprint, Cameraberry, Blackberry Pearl, Blackberry Curve |
| After almost a year after the release of the first CameraBerry, the BlackBerry Pearl, it is still unavailable to most BlackBerry users in the United States unless they are willing to switch carriers. I wonder just how much RIM has to do with that? The BlackBerry Pearl is arguably one of the best selling BlackBerry devices to date, however, |
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| AC/DC is bypassing Apple |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 3:00 am |
| Tags: Aapl, Ac Dc, Apple, Inthenews, Ipod, Itunes, Music, Verizon |
| under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Verizon Communications (VZ)It would appear to be a small thing. The band AC/DC will bypass selling songs [subscription required] on Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iTunes and has cut a deal with Verizon (NYSE: VZ) to market its music on the cell service's handsets. The band's label, Columbia Music said that the deal offered |
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| Dept. Of Time Person Of The Year: You: Everything's Just a Lame Online Diversion These Days, Including the 'New Deep Throat' |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 4:42 pm |
| Tags: 9 11, Alberto Gonzales, Blogs, Blogthroat, Cia, Deep Modem, Deep Throat, Dept Of Time Person Of The Year You, Dick Cheney, Doj, Fbi, George W Bush, Impeachment, Nsa, Nsc, Ovp, Plamegate, Rnc, Talking Points Memo, Verizon, Watergate, White House |
| In the Watergate era, “Deep Throat” was supposedly a government insider who met Bob Woodward in a parking garage and moodily smoked cigarettes while wearing a trench coat. The fact that... |
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| Hell's Bells: AC/DC Gives iTunes the Finger, Goes Exclusive with Verizon |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 11:50 am |
| Tags: Hell S Bells, Itunes, Portable Media, Verizon |
| catalog is going to… Verizon? Yes, AC/DCs music is going exclusively to Verizon's music store for some reason. The strange thing is, you'll only be able to download one song to your phone (You Shook Me All Night Long), and the albums are running for $12, more than their Amazon counterparts and more than they'd cost on iTunes. Oh, and you |
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| Proof (Not Really) That Verizon Is Coming Out With A CameraBerry |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 8:25 am |
| Tags: Rumor Mill, Verizon, Blackberry Curve |
| in a build with with many Verizon Wireless corporate offices. He overheard the following conversation in a elevator full of Verizon employees after one of them started tinkering with their BlackBerry. Verizon employee #1: Y’know Verizon’s getting a camera blackberry for consumers. Verizon employee #2: Really? Verizon employee #1: |
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| Cutting the music label distributor middle-man out |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 2:39 pm |
| Tags: Aapl, Ac Dc, Apple, Verizon |
| Inc (AAPL), AT and T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), iPhone, Media WorldThe music publishing companies that oversee rapper Eminem's music, Eight Mile Style LLC and Martin Affiliated LLC, filed suit against Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) last week over lost compensation from digital download sales. A day later, legendary rock group AC/DC announced |
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| Sprint, Verizon both announce Motorola RAZR 2 V9m |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 4:45 pm |
| Tags: Breaking News, Breakingnews, Cellphone, Moto, Motorola, Phone, Razr, Razr 2, Razr2, Sprint, V9m, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, Verizonwireless, Vzw |
| a home on both Sprint and Verizon, with both promising availability in the next few weeks. To split hairs, Sprint will be beating its sworn enemy by a few days, launching its variant on August 22, while Verizon's just promising "September" at this point. Unless AT&T manages to pull a rabbit out of its hat, it looks like the two will be the |
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| Verizon BlackBerry 8130: It's About Time |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 2:53 pm |
| Tags: Rumor Mill, Verizon, Blackberry Pearl 2, 8130 |
| 8130 will be released on Verizon sometime in November. The SureType CameraBerry that looks like it could be the BlackBerry Pearl 2 will have 1xEvDO, a 2 megapixel camera with flash, stereo Bluetooth, and a standard 3.5mm headset Jack. I cannot wait… Sponsored By: Celebrity BlackBerry Sightings |
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| Verizon intros Sierra Wireless AirCard 595U EV-DO Rev A USB modem |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 5:38 pm |
| Tags: 595u, Aircard, Aircard 595u, Aircard595u, Broadband, Broadbandaccess, Ev Do, Ev Do Rev, Ev Dorev, Mobile Broadband, Mobile Internet, Mobilebroadband, Mobileinternet, Rev, Rev, Rev, Reva, Sierra Wireless, Sierrawireless, Usb Modem, Usbmodem, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, Verizonwir |
| available to you through Verizon Wireless. Designed for use with your USB port, this EV-DO Rev A modem can also be connected through the included docking cradle, and even comes bundled with VZAccess Manager software (which isn't OS X-friendly, it appears). Additionally, the device boasts an internal, removable battery to "ensure there is |
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| Faking one's death still not enough to escape Verizon contract |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 8:36 pm |
| Tags: Angry, Cellphone Contract, Cellphonecontract, Contract, Death, Dumb, Scheme, Stupid, Verizon |
| a frustrated and determined Verizon customer decided to do just that after the carrier refused to let him out of his contract. Insistent that a host of dropped calls and "string of defective cellphones" were reason enough to ditch The Network, he went so far as to "fashion a fake death certificate" and convinced a friend to fax it in. |
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| MTV and Real flesh out a few Rhapsody America details |
| Published: August 21, 2007, 3:30 pm |
| Tags: Mtv, Online Music Store, Onlinemusicstore, Real, Rhapsody, Urge, Verizon Wireless, Verizonwireless |
| between MTV, Real and Verizon Wireless. Turns out a few things will be changing from the get go. For one, Urge customers can dive into Rhapsody starting today, using their existing login info to get their feet wet in the #1 subscription service. Rhapsody users will also be enjoying a bit of MTV, VH1 and CMT content, but it's not perfectly |
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| Motorola day: Verizon gets Q9m, Sprint gets V9m |
| Published: August 22, 2007, 3:14 am |
| Tags: Breaking News, Breakingnews, Cellphone, Phone, Q9m, Razr, Razr 2, Razr2, Sprint, V9m, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, Verizonwireless, Vzw, Windows Mobile, Windowsmobile |
| Handhelds As expected, Verizon and Sprint have given Motorola a venue for its latest and greatest hardware today, releasing the Q9m Windows Mobile smartphone and RAZR 2 V9m flip respectively. Though the media centric Q9m's $350 price on a two-year contract ain't exactly pocket change, it's interesting to note that it whittles right down to |
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| Motorola Q 9m Now Available On Verizon's Site |
| Published: August 22, 2007, 9:12 am |
| Tags: Windows Mobile, Verizon |
| you take a look at Verizon’s site you will see that the new Moto Q 9m is now available. It will set you back $249 with a 2-year contract. Why are we talking about a Windows Mobile device on a BlackBerry blog? Well, it just seems like the Motorola Q is the most popular Windows Mobile device over the last year or so, at least in the |
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| Motorola Q 9m Now Available On Verizon's Site |
| Published: August 22, 2007, 9:12 am |
| Tags: Windows Mobile, Verizon |
| you take a look at Verizon’s site you will see that the new Moto Q 9m is now available. It will set you back $249 with a 2-year contract. Why are we talking about a Windows Mobile device on a BlackBerry blog? Well, it just seems like the Motorola Q is the most popular Windows Mobile device over the last year or so, at least in the |
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