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Power to the People: Giving consumers more control over energy will pay off big
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Timely information is essential when you’re operating in a competitive marketplace. Information enables better, more informed decisions — whether you’re trading stocks, bonds, precious metals or soybeans.It’s no different when it comes to consumers and the services they use in their homes. Energy is by far the ...2 hours ago -
Verizons sky-high ETF: Do the math
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog —
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Bloggers have speculated that Verizons fat new $350 fee for breaking its smart phone contracts is intended to thwart phone flipping, a scheme in which you take the two-for-one deal, quit the contract on the second phone, then sell the handset on eBay at a profit, even after you pay the old $175 early ...6 days ago -
Droid vs. iPhone: Thems fightin words
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog —
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A fight has broken out over last Fridays boxing-themed preliminary head-to-head comparison of the brand-new Motorola Droid and Apples iPhone. The post has drawn scores of comments , and more readers continue to weigh in. The overwhelming majority of commenters feel our review gave short shrift to the ...6 days ago -
Buying the Verizon Droid: My pre-dawn odyssey
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A line outside the Verizon Wireless store Friday morning, shortly before opening. It’s not easy to find a decent cup of coffee—or any kind of coffee, for that matter—before the sun rises in the suburbs of New York City. If it hadn’t been for Verizon’s new Droid phone , I might never have known that (which ...1 week ago -
Droid vs. iPhone: A 10-round bout
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog —
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The Motorola Droid , available today from Verizon for $200 after rebates, is the latest in series of phones, including the Blackberry Storm , T-Mobile G1 , and Palm Pre , to be floated as a potential threat to Apple’s iPhone , the undefeated champion of the smart-phone world. Other media who’ve weighed in on ...1 week ago -
Verizons fee hike: A surprising slap to its best customers
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By choosing to boost its early-termination fees (ETFs) to as much as $350 for its smart phones, like the Blackberry Storm2 and the hot new Motorola Droid , Verizon Wireless has chosen to (literally) penalize some of its best customers. The hike is a slap to Verizon’s “advanced device” owners, which are ...1 week ago -
AT&T 3G Outage in Hawaii?
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Is it just me and my wife, and the three guys walking by us at lunch talking about their cell service not working, or is AT&T’s 3G out on the island of Oahu? I spent about 45 minutes on the phone with an AT&T representative who said there was not reported outages in Hawaii, but that she did everything she ...1 week ago -
Verizon said to hike early termination fee for smart phones
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog —
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Verizon Wireless is planning to boost its early termination fees (ETF)as high as $350 (from the current maximum of $175) for advanced deviceslike the Blackberry and its new Motorola Droid . Following a report from Boy Genius Report , a Verizon spokesman confirmed to me that they are in fact raising the fees to as ...1 week ago -
TwitterPeek: “Epic fail of the week?"
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog —
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TwitterPeek For Twitter addicts who relish the thought of having another expensive mobile device clunking around in their pocket or bag, TwitterPeek is for you. Released yesterday by Peek Inc., TwitterPeek looks like a smart phone with a full QWERTY keyboard but connects only to Twitter. No phone. No emails. ...1 week ago -
Reverse Cell Phone Lookups - Best Way to Catch Your Cheating Spouse
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Providers of wireless service such as AT&T never share their customer information in the internet to protect their confidentiality. Actually the main explanation people go for cell phones are because it offers them privacy. With a cell phone you can effictively select who you would like to talk to. You no longer ...1 week ago -
Sprint sells its first netbook, expands its 4G network
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog —
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Sprint today began selling its first subsidized, network-connected netbook and announced the expansion of its fourth-generation wireless network to a further 10 cities The netbook Sprint is selling, the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 , does not rank among the best performers in our Ratings , available to subscribers. ...1 week ago -
In China, an iPhone will run you $730 (Wi-Fi not included)
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog —
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And you thought your cell plan was expensive. The iPhone, released last week in China, will cost upwards of $730 per unit, reports the Wall Street Journal . Oh, and that doesn’t include Wi-Fi. Unsurprisingly, the Chinese arent exactly fighting tooth and nail to get their hands on one. From the WSJ: ...2 weeks ago -
Northeast will continue pre-paid mobile connections
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Agartala/Shillong, Nov 2 (IANS) Pre-paid mobile telephone services will continue in northeast India though the union home ministry has banned it in Jammu and Kashmir over “serious security concerns”, officials said here Monday. Like Kashmir, many areas of the northeast are also beset with insurgencies.“The union ...2 weeks ago -
Tracfone Accessories and Phones
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Tracfone Tracfone offers prepaid cell phone service in US.The service is offered by America Movil.The company worldwide subscriber base is greater than ATT and Verizon combined. Tracfone offers prepaid minutes which one can purchase or have low monthly rates or an annual plan based on the usage pattern or needs. The ...2 weeks ago -
Verizon has a star smart phone: Our first impressions of the Motorola Droid
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog —
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Motorola Droid, available from Verizon. (Click to enlarge.) The Motorola Droid, the spunky phone Verizon recently introduced as the anti-iPhone in a barrage of clever commercials , is now in our hands as a press sample. My initial impression? The Droid lives up to its promise as one of the more capable and ...2 weeks ago -
Google Navigation app for Android: A GPS killer?
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog —
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Previous navigation applications for smart phones have usually fallen short when compared to dedicated navigation units . But the new Google Maps Navigation program for Android 2.0 thats just been announced is worth watching as a possible game changer. Why? Because Google has lots of experience working with ...2 weeks ago -
Google Voice now lets you use your existing phone number
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog —
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Google Voice is an innovative phone service that provides a rich array of features including the ability to access your voicemail via your computer , sharing and transcription of your voicemail messages, custom greetings based on the caller, and low-cost international calling. Until this week, this free service ...2 weeks ago -
Mediocrity, thy name is Nuvifone
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog —
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Garmin Nuvifone [Image courtesy of Garmin] It’s amazing how quickly the market for bundled GPS applications has exploded, as my colleague Jeff Bartlett notes on the Consumer Reports Cars Blog . If the Garmin Nuvifone had been released when it was first announced two years ago , it would have been a mobile ...2 weeks ago -
Beware of phishy text messages on your cell phone
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog —
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This is the text message some spammer/phisher sent to my cell phone today. Has anyone else gotten one of these SMS messages? (Click to enlarge.) [PHOTO: P. Eng, Consumer Reports] I almost fell for a rather clever phishing message sent to my cell phone , not my computers e-mail inbox. A text message from ...3 weeks ago -
Verizons first Droid ad goes on the iPhone attack
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog —
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Click for the the Droid promo site (with ad). Verizon has begun running a hard-hitting ad aimed at building excitement for its first phone powered by Googles Android-operating system. Dubbed the Droid, the phone, which until recently went by the code name "Sholes," is expected in early November. It joins other ...3 weeks ago
