February 6, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.
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January 19, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.
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January 18, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day? The shutdown of one of the Internet's most-visited sites is not sitting well with some of its volunteer editors, who say the protest of anti-piracy legislation could threaten the credib...
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January 7, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — The largest trade show in the Americas must be a great place to show off new products, right? Wrong. The International Consumer Electronics Show is quickly becoming a launch pad for products that fall flat.
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December 30, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — After a customer backlash, Verizon Wireless on Friday dropped a plan to start charging $2 for every payment subscribers make over the phone or online with their credit or debit cards.In a statement on its website Friday, the company...
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November 22, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — Listen, and I'll tell you the story of the bookstore chain that stormed into the hottest category in consumer electronics and conquered.It's a nice underdog story, right? A bit like the tale of plucky rebels who attacked Lord Vader's...
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October 13, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — BlackBerry services buzzed back to life across the world Thursday, after a three-day outage that interrupted email messages and Internet services for millions of customers. Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the phones, said the s...
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October 12, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — BlackBerry users across the world were exasperated Wednesday as an outage of email, messaging and Internet services on the phones spread to the U.S. and Canada and stretched into the third day for Europe, Asia, Latin America and Afri...
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October 10, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix Inc. is abandoning its widely panned decision to separate its DVD-by-mail and Internet streaming services because it would make them more difficult to use.Subscribers will be able to use both services under one account and on...
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October 6, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Jobs pushed the envelope many times when it came to product design, and the results weren't always pretty. Here are seven products created under his direction that failed commercially or functionally: 1.
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August 8, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — More trouble piled up for Bank of America Corp. on Monday, as American International Group Inc. sued it for more than $10 billion, saying the bank cheated it by selling residential mortgage-backed securities that were overvalued.
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June 28, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — A study finds that 12 percent of U.S. households now own a reading device for electronic books, such as Amazon's Kindle.That's three times the number of households that owned an e-reader just a year ago, pointing to rapid acceptance.
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June 14, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Inc. on Tuesday started selling "unlocked" iPhones in the U.S. for the first time, allowing owners to switch carriers to a limited extent and save money when travelling.
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May 27, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — Google Inc. hopes to nudge consumers and merchants into a world where the smartphone has replaced the wallet as the container for credit cards, coupons and receipts.While it tackles that challenge, Google also will have to spar with...
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May 17, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — Sprint Nextel Corp., once dead last in customer satisfaction among the Big 4 national wireless carriers, now has the happiest subscribers, along with long-time leader Verizon Wireless, according to a survey released Tuesday.
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March 21, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T Inc. said Sunday it will buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $39 billion that would make it the largest cellphone company in the U.S.
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March 15, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — Time Warner Cable Inc. is launching an iPad application that plays live TV, becoming the first cable company to do so.
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March 1, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — Ever wish your eyes were lasers? A laptop prototype brings that wish closer to reality.It tracks your gaze and figures out where you're looking on the screen. That means, among other things, that you can play a game where you burn up...
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February 15, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — As cell phones have spread, so have large cell towers - those unsightly stalks of steel topped by transmitters and other electronics that sprouted across the country over the last decade.
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July 28, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) — Hulu, the popular website with TV shows, now comes as a subscription-based application for iPhones and iPads. Although it isn't perfect, it works well enough that it may make you wonder if the TV's reign as the center of family life...
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June 9, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) — This week saw the launch of a free version of Microsoft's flagship Office software, available online. In other news, hell just froze over.
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February 15, 2010
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Apple Inc. rocked the wireless business by combining the functions of a phone and an iPod. Now, more than two years later, Microsoft Corp. has its comeback: phone software that works a lot like its own Zune media player.
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April 2, 2008
LAS VEGAS (AP) Sprint Nextel Corp. on Tuesday said it is betting heavily on a touch-screen phone that appears to be the closest thing the U.S. market has seen to Apple Inc.'s vaunted iPhone. The Samsung Instinct will be available in June for a yet undete...
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