It took 36 years, but Apple is finally about to start rewarding its shareholders directly by instituting a dividend and share buyback program. Apple currently has about $97.6 billion in cash and securities, so analysts had been expecting a dividend announcement for quite some time. In previous years, Steve Jobs resisted implementing a dividend, maintaining [...]

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Score another win for the consumer. Verizon Wireless just announced they’re scrapping that $2 convenience fee they were going to charge for paying your bill online or over the phone.  It seems a massive wave of public outrage that played out on Twitter, as well as the possibility of an FCC investigation, made them change [...]

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Another big corporation is planning to stick it to the individual consumer.  Will you stand for it? Verizon has just announced that, beginning January 15, it will start charging customers who make single bill payments online or by telephone will be charged a $2 “convenience fee.” (UPDATE: Verizon has backed down and says it won’t [...]

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Here’s a little phrase the folks at Verizon might want to keep in mind…”This is only a test.” It seems New Jersey residents were somewhat alarmed after the wireless company sent a text alert to customers in Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean counties, warning of a “civil emergency” and telling people to “take shelter now.” The [...]

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Today is a big day if you’ve been waiting to get your hands on the world’s first LTE phone.  The HTC Thunderbolt, is available today, march 17, at Verizon stores. The HTC Thunderbolt, which we first told you about back in December, costs $249.99 with a two-year contract, or you can pay $599.99 if you [...]

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The iPhone and Verizon will be united at long last.  Really, it’s about time, don’t you think?  Hopefully, this is the beginning of a new trend in marketing and product offering where, hey, here’s a novel idea…the consumer gets to make the choice. Don’t make phones exclusive to one carrier or another.  Let the consumer [...]

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The Verizon iPhone is here, at least it will be in February.  At a special press event held in New York today, Verizon announced that its version of the iPhone 4 will launch on February 10, 2011. Apple COO Tim Cook took the stage along with Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam (Apple CEO Steve Jobs was [...]

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Could this be what the world has been waiting for? Verizon Wireless has invited members of the press to a special event on Tuesday morning at Lincoln Center in New York, hosted by president Lowell McAdam. Could this finally be the announcement of the Verizon iPhone? UPDATE: It’s official – the Verizon iPhone launches on [...]

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Ladies and gentlemen, meet the HTC Thunderbolt. Yes, pictures of Verizon‘s first official 4G LTE smartphone have been leaked onto the web ahead of next week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES). UPDATE: The HTC Thunderbolt is now available This phone looks very similar to the HTC Desire HD, but it this one will be 4G capable. [...]

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The times, they are a-changin’. Verizon is finally getting Apple.  Verizon Wireless is going to start selling iPads on October 28, according to a Thursday press release. The news comes on the heels of substantial rumors that Verizon will also being selling a version of the iPhone in early 2011, although that has yet to [...]

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Verizon Wireless has launched a bold new TV commercial attacking AT&T’s iffy 3G coverage in a very clever way. Using Apple’s now-famous “there’s an app for that” tagline which is seen in iPhone ads (which uses AT&T’s network exclusively), Verizon manages to do a pretty hilarious spoof by stating “there’s a map for that” when [...]

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Verizon Wireless has unveiled its MiFi 2200 Intellgent Mobile Hotspot, a portable WiFi hotspot that comes with built-in mobile broadband. The MiFi 2200 will let any device with WiFi capability connect to Verizon’s wireless network from just about anywhere in the country. The battery should last for about four hours when used actively, wit 40 [...]

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