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Markey Bill Would Beef Up Wireless Consumer Protections

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2008-02-27 22:40:30 by Chloe Albanesius in Gearlog
...Consumer Protection and Community Broadband Empowerment Act, touches on three main topics: mobile phone consumer protection; city-owned telecom networks; and effective government spectrum use Specifically the bill looks to extend a 1993 law that prohibited states from regulating wireless rates to also cover consumer protection efforts. State...
 
Tags: wireless, bill, wireless companies, wireless industry, industry, net neutrality bill, consumer protection rules, consumer protection, draft bill
 
 
 
 
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The NPD Group: iPhone 3G Leads U.S. Consumer Mobile Phone Purchases in the Third Quarter of 2008

2008-11-11 22:02:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...consumer mobile phone purchases declined 15 percent year-over-year PORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK, According to The NPD Group, the leader in market research for the wireless industry, Apple's iPhone 3G surpassed the Motorola RAZR as the leading handset purchased by adult consumers in the U.S. in the third quarter (Q3) of 2008. RAZR had been...
 
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Scott Beale on vintage Consumer Reports product test photos

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2008-06-23 11:24:51 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
...consumer product tests If that's not good enough, Scott takes the opportunity to nostalgically sigh over the many decades of Consumer Reports magazines that have brought us the wildly implausible retro-future each and every day. Those rows and rows of black or red dots comparing the merits of every conceivable product from electric shavers to...
 
Tags: consumer reports, scott, consumer reports magazines, scott takes, vintage photos, illustrious scott beale, squid wildly, wildly implausible retro-future, squid
 
 
 
 
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Consumer Reports launches iPhone app just in time for Christmas

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2008-11-21 08:49:35 by Dusan Belic in IntoMobile
...Consumer Reports knows that. Hence, they are launching a new application for iPhone and iPod Touch users just in time for the holiday shopping season. Available for free at Apples AppStore, the ConsumerReports.org application features expert tips and buying advice aimed at helping shoppers make better purchasing decisions The Consumer Reports...
 
Tags: users, apple iphone users, consumer reports, iphone, access, users instant access, ipod touch users, ipod touch, consumer reports continues
 
 
 
 
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Ericsson signs first consumer push e-mail contract with Aircel in India

2008-02-08 21:14:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...consumer push e-mail service to leading Indian operator Aircel, part of the Maxis Communications group Under the terms of the three-year managed services hosting agreement, Ericsson will have end-to-end responsibility for the consumer push e-mail service. This includes systems integration and management, as well as operation and maintenance....
 
Tags: ericsson, aircel, ericsson india, services, class services, innovative services, aircel maintain, operators, consumer push e-mail
 
 
 
 
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Nokia to acquire leading consumer email and instant messaging provider OZ Communications

2008-09-30 17:42:57 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...consumer email and IM Espoo, Finland and Montreal, Canada - Nokia and OZ Communications today announced that Nokia is to acquire OZ, a privately held company with approximately 220 employees and headquartered in Montreal, Canada. OZ, the leading consumer mobile messaging solution provider, delivers access to popular instant messaging and...
 
Tags: consumer, consumer mobile devices, consumer mobile, consumer internet services, internet services, alcatel mobile phones, mobile phones, nokia, services
 
 
 
 
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Inside Consumer Reports' Electronics Testing Lab [Hardware]

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2008-11-06 12:00:00 by John Mahoney in Gizmodo
...Consumer Reports if a) you are at your grandparents house or b) you are a grandparent yourself. But that's too bad, because tucked quietly away in the NYC suburb of Yonkers lies one of the biggest and best electronics testing labs money can buy. And what goes on here at Consumer Reports main test facility probably puts most other tech pubs to...
 
Tags: consumer reports, hardware, test data, data, electronics, test, tech pubs, pure hardware performance, yonkers lies
 
 
 
 
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Bright Spots for Consumer Electronics in 2009

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2008-11-11 20:26:02 by Eliot Van Buskirk in Gadget Lab
...consumer electronics industry, like every other industry, is worried about its prospects for 2009. A shrinking economy, vanishing jobs and an imploding financial system cast long shadows over the coming year. But there are few bright spots on the horizon for CE manufacturers, according the Consumer Electronics Association, mainly involving...
 
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Americans fall out of love with gadgets - consumer spending way down

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2008-03-19 23:24:12 by willpark in IntoMobile
...consumers are reacting accordingly The newest bit of research out of ChangeWave indicates a huge consumer pull-back on consumer electronics expenditures - the largest decline in gadget spending since 2002. ChangeWave surveyed 4,427 consumers, during February 18-25, to gauge discretionary spending on a range of popular electronic devices,...
 
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