Here are your top tech news headlines for Wednesday, April 11, 2012: – Facebook announced it will buy the photo-sharing app Instagram for 1 billion dollars – Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile are teaming up with the U.S. FCC to combat phone theft – Sony expects its net loss to be more than double what [...]

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If there’s one thing that’s become abundantly clear over the last few months, it’s that the internet won’t be completely safe until the government runs out of acronyms. Having safely defeated SOPA and PIPA, and fatally wounded ACTA, along comes CISPA. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (CISPA), also known as H.R. [...]

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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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There’s an interesting rumor floating around claiming that Sprint has entered into an agreement with Apple to purchase over $20 billion in iPhones over the next four years. That’s equivalent to about 30 million iPhones. If that’s true, Sprint likely wouldn’t even break even on the deal until about 2014, which sounds like a huge [...]

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Here are your top stories for Sunday, August 21, 2011: – Two American hikers sentenced to eight years in Iranian prison – Fourth body recovered after Pittsburgh flash floods – Verizon workers to return to jobs – Pope to celebrate mass in front of more than a million

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Here are your top stories for this Monday, August 8, 2011: – NATO working to recover crashed chopper remains in Afghanistan – Riots rock London – Verizon workers go on strike – Last season of Desperate Housewives starts this fall

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Is the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet coming this fall? Rumors would seem to indicate that Apple is gearing up for a September release of the much-anticipated iPhone 5. The new phone will supposedly feature an A5 processor and an 8-megapixel camera. An A5 chip would speed the iPhone up significantly and make it more [...]

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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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