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BlackBerry Storm 9500 hands-on

October 8, 2008

Engadget / Paul Miller

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds RIM's a little late to the touchscreen party, but comes bearing goodies. The BlackBerry Storm is a beast of a phone in more ways than one.

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BlackBerry Storm First Hands On

October 8, 2008

Gizmodo / matt buchanan

The very first time you touch the BlackBerry Storm—RIM's first all-touchscreen keyboard-free smartphone, just announced for Verizon Wireless—you will be startled.

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October 7, 2008

GigaOM / Om Malik

Sure it’s not like back in the early 2000s, when those crooks from Enron were driving the prices of bandwidth down into the ground, but even today prices on Internet bandwidth continue to fall.

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Verizon Wireless to charge content vendors 3-cent fee for text messages: Google, 4INFO, others to face charges beginning Nov. 1

October 9, 2008

Welcome to RCRNews.com / Colin Gibbs

In a move that sets a new and potentially major precedent in the text messaging services market, content and messaging companies are going to have to cough up some dough if they want to deliver their ...

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Verizon Mulls Text Fee to Milk a Cash Cow

October 10, 2008

internetnews.com

UPDATED: While text messaging is booming, the carrier considers increased prices for bulk delivery. Will it send commercial customers running?

Verizon Wireless 'COLT' Steps Up to the Plate at Citizens Bank Park

October 10, 2008

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Verizon Wireless 'COLT' Steps Up to the Plate at Citizens Bank Park (PR Newswire)

October 10, 2008

Yahoo! Finance: Telecom Services - Domestic Industry News

In anticipation of a surge of wireless calls by thousands of baseball fans during the National League Championship Series, Verizon Wireless has beefed up its local network capacity by placing a ...

Verizon To Charge Content Providers $.03 Per SMS

October 10, 2008

Slashdot / timothy

An anonymous reader writes "It appears that Verizon is going to start double-dipping by charging both consumers AND content providers for SMS text messages.

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Research In Motion and Verizon Wireless and Vodafone Group: BlackBerry Takes the World by Storm with Verizon and Vodafone

October 8, 2008

Market Wire - Full Feed

BASKING RIDGE, NEW JERSEY and NEWBURY, ENGLAND and WATERLOO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Editors Note: Photos and a video are included with this press release.

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BlackBerry Storm official press images and specs!

October 8, 2008

The Boy Genius Report / The Boy Genius

What’s an embargo?

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Leaked: Vodafone Storm Launch Video

October 6, 2008

The Boy Genius Report / Michael Bettiol

Apologies in advance to everyone who is sick and bloody tired of all of the Storm coverage as of late, but something as highly anticipated as the Storm has to be covered, right?

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Crisis Will Hit Telecom Business, Analyst Says

October 8, 2008

New York Times / By Laura Holson

Companies like AT&T and Verizon have long been considered a safe bet in troubled times. But a Sanford C. Bernstein analyst predicts that they will suffer too.

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Hands-on With Verizon Wireless’ Fierce BlackBerry Storm

October 8, 2008

LAPTOP Magazine: The Pulse of Mobile Technology

We recently had a chance to go hands-on with Verizon Wireless’ Storm, the first BlackBerry to feature a full touchscreen.

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First Blackberry Storm commericals air on CBS

October 7, 2008

Engadget Mobile / Nilay Patel

Filed under: Handsets, RIM, Verizon Wireless Get ready, Blackberry fans.

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Verizon Loses Suit Against Cox

October 7, 2008

WSJ.com: Markets

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BlackBerry Storm bows, comes next month to Verizon and Vodafone

October 8, 2008

Engadget / Chris Ziegler

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds A storm's arrival typically isn't something to celebrate, but we're going to make a notable exception here seeing how the BlackBerry Storm is less of a destructive ...

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Verizon's BlackBerry Storm takes on iPhone

October 8, 2008

Electronista | Gadgets for Geeks

Verizon and RIM today at last formally introduced the American version of the BlackBerry Storm, RIM's first touchscreen phone and Verizon's most direct competitor to the iPhone.

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Verizon and Vodafone (Update: and Telus!) finally speak up about the Storm

October 8, 2008

MobileCrunch / Greg Kumparak

At long last, Verizon and Vodafone have officially acknowledged that they plan to offer the Storm in the coming weeks.

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Verizon BlackBerry Storm commercial hits the airwaves

October 7, 2008

MobileCrunch / Greg Kumparak

Anybody who is considered the “geek” amongst their less tech-minded peers best look out.

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Guest Post: "Imagine the Base of the Pyramid Using Social Networks"

October 10, 2008

NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit / Francisco Noguera

Guest blogger Jenara Nerenberg is the Founder of BOP Source.

Verizon Wireless Keeps Chicago Marathon Running

October 10, 2008

PR Newswire: Technology

Verizon to Divest 15 More Markets

October 10, 2008

PHONE+ Hot News

Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) said this week it will divest 15 additional markets this week, for a total of 100, to entice the Justice Department to approve the pending Verizon-Alltel merger.

Verizon Unveils In-Home TV Repair Service, Expert Care

October 10, 2008

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Verizon has launched a service called Expert Care to offer in-home repair and replacement of TV and PC systems to go along with its phone systems.

Verizon Wireless to raise fees for service-related texts

October 10, 2008

BetaNews.Com

Verizon Wireless sent an announcement to partner companies this week that it will add a 3¢ fee for Mobile Terminated (MT) messages on the first of November.

Verizon Exposes the Wrong 1,200 Email Addresses

October 10, 2008

Slashdot: Your Rights Online / timothy

netbuzz writes "If you're going to market your expertise by inviting 1,200 IT professionals to a seminar about securing data and protecting personal information, it's probably a good idea to protect ...

Verizon Wireless Raises Corporate Text Messaging Fees

October 10, 2008

TechWeb

The fee boost for subscribers is expected to be particularly difficult on startups entering a crowded market for providing mobile services.

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