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Coke uses RFID for drink dispensers
If there is one, cool way to implement RFID technology that makes perfect business sense, it would be Coca-Cola's new Freestyle drink dispensers, which are on trial at some fast-food joints this... Read more...
Obama's cellphone account breached
Several Verizon Wireless employees accessed and viewed President-elect Obama's personal cellphone account, according to Verizon Wireless. "We apologize to President-elect Obama and will work to keep... Read more...
Get ready for cell phone spam
Anthony Melone, Verizon Wireless's chief technology officer, started getting complaints last March from customers about unsolicited text messages that were flooding the network. He and his Verizon... Read more...
Verizon, AT&T flesh out 'openness'
With Sprint and T-Mobile both members of Google's Open Handset Alliance, the other two tier one U.S.... Read more...
HTC Touch gets ready for Verizon
Last week, we briefly noted that photos of a Verizon-branded Read more...
ALSO NOTED: AMD headed back into the black; Verizon getting the HTC Touch?;
> Fujitsu LifeBook P1620 is a tiny Tablet PC. Article> AMD headed back into the black. Read more...
ALSO NOTED: AMD delays Phenom 9700 until Q2; Verizon's FiOS tops user survey;
> OLPC spin-off working on $75 laptop. Article> Matsushita to trade under Panasonic name globally. Read more...
Will Android live up to the hype?
Will Google's Android prove to be the wireless industry game changer that everyone seems to think it'll be?... Read more...
700Mhz auction: Who's bidding?
This week, the FCC revealed the names of all 266 companies who submitted applications to bid in next year's 700Mhz spectrum auction. Of those... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: IE8 beta due in the first half of 2008; Apple rumor site Think Secret settles lawsuit, shuts down;
> Apple rumor site Think Secret settles lawsuit, shuts down. Article> Samsung F700 (U940) gets FCC approved for Verizon. Read more...






