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Chicago Tribune

Cox to cut 100 employees from shutdown of wireless phone business
FierceCable
Cox Communications said it will cut about 100 employees as it prepares to shut down its mobile phone business on March 30. In November, Cox announced that it would pull the plug on its Cox Wireless service, just one year after its debut.
Report: Cox to slash 100 jobs when it shutters wireless service in MarchFierceWireless

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VentureBeat

Apple increases share of overall mobile phone profits to amazing 75%
ITworld.com
By Chris Nerney Add a new comment February 06, 2012, 2:26 PM — Sales of its iPhone may have comprised only 9% of the total mobile phone sales (not just smartphones) in the fourth quarter, but when it comes to the all-important bottom line, ...
Apple, Samsung vie for smartphone leadBizjournals.com

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Wireless and Mobile News

Microsoft Windows Phone's Brandon Watson Leaves for Amazon
eWeek
Microsoft's senior director of Windows Phone development Brandon Watson has left to work on Amazon's Kindle platform. How that affects Windows Phone remains to be seen. Brandon Watson, senior director of Windows Phone development at Microsoft, ...
Windows Phone: the OEM ChallengeWireless Week
'WP8' to support NFC and four screen sizesRethink Wireless
Windows Phone 8 Appollo DetailsWireless and Mobile News
LiveSide -TIME -CNET (blog)
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Wall Street Journal

Fast Phones, Dead Batteries
Wall Street Journal
Galaxy Nexus smartphone from Verizon Wireless, David Jacobs found himself switching off the fourth-generation broadband connection that had drawn him to the $300 device in the first place. "I love everything about the phone, but with 4G on, ...
4G Phones Are Fast But Spotty Service Is A Real Drain On Your BatteryThe Consumerist (blog)
How to Get 10+ Hours of 4G Battery Life From The Droid RAZR MaxxLAPTOP Magazine (blog)

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Financial Times

HTC, Motorola Making Fewer Android Phones as Samsung Pulls Away
eWeek
HTC UK chief Phil Roberson told Mobile Today the company will in 2012 launch a number of high-end devices this year. "We have to get back to focusing on what made us great – amazing hardware and a great customer experience," Roberson.
HTC Rezound Offers Global Capabilities, Drops to $79Mobile bloom News
HTC posts weak Q4 results, warns sales could fall 36% in Q1FierceWireless
HTC Prepares Quad-Core Edge, Razor-Thin "Ville" to Fight Sinking RevenueDailyTech
Apple Insider -Wireless Week
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Smartphone Sales Beat PCs for First Time Ever: Canalys
eWeek
"In the space of a few years, smartphones have grown from being a niche product segment at the high-end of the mobile phone market to becoming a truly mass-market proposition." Helping "tremendously," he added, are smartphones at the lower end of the ...

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Phone Equipment Supplier TelcoDepot.com Launches New Low Price Offer on ...
PR Web (press release)
Business Phone supplier TelcoDepot.com has introduced a new discount on Panasonic Cordless Analog DECT Phones purchased from its online phone store. TelcoDepot.com, a supplier of VoIP phones, Business VoIP Service, Hosted PBX solutions, ...

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Is Best Buy's Super Bowl Commercial a Lie?
Motley Fool
"Any phone. Any carrier. And all of their plans with lots of unbiased advice." There's no denying that mobile retailing is the future of consumer electronics. RadioShack (NYSE: RSH ) stunned investors last week in revealing that traditional, non-mobile ...

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Griffin Capital Buys AT&T Wireless Data Center
Data Center Knowledge
The property also houses AT&T Wireless' next-generation research and development labs. AT&T Wireless, the country's second-largest cell phone service provider, has continuously occupied the property since it was built in 1995 and over the past three ...

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Website Finds Your Location Using Phone Number
Discovery News
Agreements with wireless carriers like T-Mobile and Sprint let Loc-Aid triangulate position using cellular towers and the GPS signal on your phone. In urban areas, the results are more precise than rural areas where there are fewer cell towers.

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