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Vodafone Egypt Riles Revolutionaries With Ads That Turn Protests Into Pitches

A three-minute video implying multinational mobile giant Vodafone was one of the primary forces behind the Egyptian Revolution has gone viral, and Egyptians are not happy about the implications.READ»

Vodafone's Crowd-Sized Cellphone Charger, Twitter To Reveal Injunction Breakers, And More...

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Google, Twitter Are Big Help During Emergencies; Verizon, Not So Much

Google and Twitter are acting as vital tools in helping New Zealand deal with a disastrous earthquake, just as Verizon's in trouble for dropping tens of thousands of 911 calls during a serious snowstorm.READ»

Vodafone's Webbox Could Bring Net to TVs in Developing Nations

Vodafone's trying to tap a new market in the developing world that leverages TV and web tech with a cheap Internet portal box that uses an existing TV as its display, bringing the Net to homes that otherwise may not have been connected.READ»

With Mobile Technology Vodafone and the U.N. Improve Health in Brazil's Remote Communities

For Vodafone, the partnership is likely to offer more than just a corporate social responsibility boost--untapped communities also represent potential new customers.READ»

Kenneth Cole's Tone-Deaf Tweet! Vodafone's Coerced Texts! Salad Dressing Drug Charges! Business Misadventures in Egypt Multiply

As a revolution unfolds, the forwardly fashionable, mobile operators, and even a purveyor of health foods have been caught up in Egypt's current chaos.READ»

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Apple May Face Lawsuit From European Phone Carriers Over Built-in SIM Card iPhone

What would be the consequences of Apple cutting out mobile carriers if it does incorporate the SIM card into its iPhone?READ»

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Wireless for Social Good: $650k Up for Grabs

With a special focus on health, Vodafone wants you to be the next mobile innovator.READ»

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Two Augmented Reality Soccer Apps--USA 1 Germany 0

Lining up against each other today in the arena of augmented reality football apps are two teams: one from Germany, the other from the U.S. Both sides play mightily different football--while Germany's is a model of teutonic ...READ»

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Cell Phone Networks Gang Up on Apple, Google

A is for apps--and agitated cell phone networks. They've formed a consortium in an attempt to fight back against the overwhelming dominance from Apple and Google in the smartphone market, and make some money from the mobile app ...READ»

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An Exclusive Peek Inside Citi's Banks of the Future

Inside the financial giant's lab, where it's engineering the bank of the future -- to be more like a convenience storeREAD»

Psst! Wanna Cheap iPhone? Try France, Monsieur

The iPhone 3G S is only six months old, but in France the public and cell phone networks think time is ripe to stir things up a bit--by slashing prices to levels that'd make U.S. consumers swoon. France is one of the many countries ...READ»

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Are Your Interns Saving the World? IBM's Are

Let's play word association: intern + texting = ____. Setting up a date? Skipping out on work? Sexting? At IBM, how about saving millions of lives? A new initiative called SMS for Life, born from the minds of a group of IBM's Extreme ...READ»

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Is an iPhone revolution about to take place in the UK?

O2 have enjoyed a monopoly on the iPhone in the UK since its launch in 2007. This week though marks a new dawn for consumers, with Orange and Vodafone both committing to offer the iPhone alongside O2 in the near future. We look at the choice ahead for consumers.READ»

As AT&T Struggles With 7.2mbps, Europe Rolls Out 21 mbps Mobile Broadband

AT&T is about to upgrade its cellphone network to 7.2 mega bits per second to support the tech in the new iPhone 3G S. But over in Portugal, where 7.2 mbps rates are already common, Vodafone's going for 21mbps. Vodafone ...READ»

Vodafone Cuts Roaming Fees for Cellphone Calls--To Zero

Vodafone U.K. has done something astonishing, something very uncharacteristic of a cellphone operator--it made things much cheaper for its users. Specifically, the mobile network operator is experimenting with totally abolishing ...READ»

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Vodafone To Sell New Dell Netbook

Dell's [NASDAQ:DELL] new netbook, the Mini Inspiron 9, is reportedly being sold with built-in mobile broadband service by European telecom provider Vodafone [NYSE:VOD]. The computer, which is aimed at entry-level and ...READ»