1. Articles from By THE NEW YORK TIMES

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    1. French Regulators Seek Inquiry Into Skype

      Explore NY Times (Mar 13 2013) 4G Device , Regulatory

      French Regulators Seek Inquiry Into Skype

      French regulators have asked prosecutors to investigate Microsoft’s Skype unit over its failure to register as a telecommunications operator, raising the question of what constitutes a telephone company in the age of Internet-based communications.

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    2. Mixing, Matching and Charging Less for a Phone Plan

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      Republic Wireless keeps its cellphone service prices low via an interesting hybrid: it uses Wi-Fi when customers are in a Wi-Fi area and a 3G network when they are not.

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    3. Daily Report: Google Invades the iPhone

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      For many people, smartphone shopping comes down to a choice of Apple's iPhone or one powered by Google's Android software. But now consumers can get an iPhone and fill it with Google, as Nick Wingfield and Claire Cain Miller report on Monday in The New York Times.

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    4. G.O.P. Balks at Unlicensed Airwaves Plan

      Explore NY Times (Dec 13 2012) 4G Device , Mobile Broadband

      Republicans on a House panel said the frequencies should instead be auctioned to telecommunications companies, because that might raise up to $19 billion.

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    5. Mobile Video Calling Creates a New Frontier

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      As the cameras and screens of smartphones and tablets improve, and as wireless networks offer greater bandwidth, more companies are enabling mobile video calls.

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    6. Chinese Messaging App Gains Ground Elsewhere

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      The smartphone application WeChat is trying to establish itself as a global player in an expanding market. Read more » (Read Full Article)

    7. EBay's Focus on Mobile Apps Helps Lift Revenue 15%

      Explore NY Times (Oct 18 2012) 4G Device , Mobile Money

      Quarter by quarter, eBay defies the conventional wisdom that troubled Internet companies can never return to their former glory. Read more »

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    8. Daily Report: The Stigma of the BlackBerry User

      Explore NY Times - Technology (Oct 16 2012) 4G Device

      The BlackBerry was once proudly carried by the high-powered and the elite. But as Nicole Perlroth reports in Tuesday's New York Times, those who still hold one today say the device has become a magnet for mockery and derision from those with iPhones and the latest Android phones. (Read Full Article)

    9. Don't Count Samsung Electronics Out

      Explore NY Times (Sep 22 2012) 4G Device

      Samsung Electronics doesn't have the media coverage or the passionate fan base, but the giant South Korean manufacturer has built an impressive lead in global mobile phone sales.

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    10. AT&T Chief Speaks Out on Texting at the Wheel

      Explore NY Times (Sep 20 2012) 4G Device

      The chairman and chief executive of AT&T, Randall L. Stephenson, said an accident involving someone close to him that was caused by texting while driving spurred him to speak out. Read more »

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    11. Where Smartphones Lose Their Way, Navigation Services Step In

      Explore Automobiles (Sep 17 2012) 4G Device

      Getting in-car navigation instructions on a smartphone can have a major flaw. If cell service is interrupted, so are the directions. The New York Times Wheels blog suggests apps that solve that problem.

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    12. Daily Report: The Future of Smartphones

      Explore NY Times - Technology (Sep 17 2012) 4G Device , Smartphones

      The iPhone 5 that Apple introduced last week with only incremental changes seemed to signal that the smartphone industry had entered an era of technological bunny hops.

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    13. Is GPS Making Us Lost and Confused?

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      A recent study illustrates a drawback of GPS technology: that it could be causing drivers to become too docile as their navigational skills atrophy.

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    14. South Korea Looks to Samsung and Sees Itself

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      Samsung built its brand by deftly copying and expanding on products developed by rivals, but its recent battle with Apple has highlighted to Koreans how the company's comes up short on genuine innovation.

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    15. Daily Report: After Apple-Samsung Verdict, Concern About Innovation

      Explore NY Times - Technology (Aug 27 2012) 4G Device

      Apple's victory on Friday in a patent lawsuit against Samsung could, if upheld, give its rivals a kick in the pants to create more original products, Nick Wingfield reports in Monday's New York Times. Whether consumers respond by buying more distinctive devices is another question entirely.

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    16. The Smartphone is a Litigation Magnet

      Explore NY Times (Aug 26 2012) 4G Device , Smartphones

      The smartphone patent wars are unusually complex, and the courts, rather than the patent office, are pushing companies toward a truce.

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    17. Verizon Wins Approval for Huge Spectrum Purchase

      Explore A Guide to the Media Industry (Aug 24 2012) 4G Device , Regulatory

      The United States government approved a deal in which the company will spend $3.9 billion to buy underused airwaves owned by Comcast, Time Warner Cable and others. Read more »

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    18. Apple and Samsung Are Penalized in South Korea

      Explore NY Times (Aug 24 2012) 4G Device , Smartphones

      A South Korean court ordered the companies, the two largest smartphone makers, to compensate each other for patent infringement. Read more »

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    19. Daily Report: Apple-Samsung Decision Could Have Wide Impact

      Explore NY Times - Technology (Aug 20 2012) 4G Device , Smartphones

      The Apple-Samsung patent trial is expected to wind down this week, and legal experts say a victory for either company could have broad implications for makers of smartphones and tablet computers, Nick Wingfield reports in Monday's New York Times. (Read Full Article)

    20. Coming Next: Using an App as Prescribed

      Explore NY Times (Aug 19 2012) 4G Device

      Apps that can assess data like blood glucose levels, diet and drug regimen - and can be paid for by insurance - will soon be prescribed by doctors to help treat patients. Read more »

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    21. Daily Report: Apple Takes On Google in Maps

      Explore NY Times - Technology (Jun 18 2012) 4G Device

      Last week, Apple announced that its phones would no longer come with maps from Google built in, but instead would feature Apple's own map service, part of its new mobile operating system. In Monday's New York Times, Quentin Hardy looks into whether Apple can build a map service that does as good a job as Google's -- or a better one. (Read Full Article)

    22. Daily Report: Nokia Cuts 10,000 Jobs

      Explore NY Times - Technology (Jun 14 2012) 4G Device , Smartphones

      Nokia will slash 19 percent of its work force by the end of 2013 as part of an emergency overhaul that includes closing research centers and a factory in Germany, Canada and Finland, and the departures of three senior executives. (Read Full Article)

    23. Daily Report: Squeezing More Data Into Spectrum

      Explore NY Times - Technology (Jun 7 2012) 4G Device

      Cellphone carriers like AT&T and Verizon say they are worried about running out of the radio spectrum that carries wireless calls and data. But as Brian X. Chen reports in Thursday's New York Times, a number of companies are developing technology that could change the whole spectrum game by using radio frequencies more efficiently. (Read Full Article)

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