Here are your top business and financial news headlines for May 17, 2012: – After losses at JP Morgan Chase, the White House seeks to toughen banking regulations – Verizon Wireless to end unlimited data plans – Several firms stop accepting orders for Facebook shares – Sprint Nextel thinks U.S. regulators are open to major [...]

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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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Is this another “Chinese Democracy” or is it really happening?  Ten months after Apple announced that there would be a white version of the iPhone 4, the rumors are swirling that Wednesday is the big day. Several screenshots of a white iPhone 4 have popped up in Best Buy’s inventory database with an April 27 [...]

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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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It’s official.  At the Apple iPad 2 event in San Francisco today, Steve Jobs himself confirmed what was likely the worst-kept secret in gadget history…the iPad 2 is ready to ship, and it’s coming sooner than you might think. “We’ve been working on this product for a while, and I just didn’t want to miss [...]

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It’s been a big day in the tablet computing arena. First, Hewlett-Packard unveiled its long-awaited HP TouchPad from its webOS event in San Francisco. It’s being hyped as a competitor to Apple’s popular iPad.  The HP TouchPad will feature a 9.7-inch display, 32GB of internal storage space, and video calling.  It weighs in at a [...]

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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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Congratulations, AT&T!  You suck!  Well, at least according to Consumer Reports, that is. AT&T is now the lowest-rated cell-phone carrier in America, according to a satisfaction survey of 58,000 ConsumerReports.org readers. Of all the wireless providers rated, AT&T was the only one to drop significantly in overall satisfaction. Over 50 percent of respondents who used [...]

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