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T-Mobile May Beat Verizon to iPhone

Nick McMaster — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:38:11 CDT

Competition from Google's Droid platform may stall the Verizon-Apple marriage, meaning the iPhone will wind up branching out to T-Mobile first. With AT&T's exclusive deal near an end, furious speculation about which provider will be the next to offer Apple's signature device has focused on Verizon. But two industry analysts...

Best Tech Ideas of 2009

John Johnson — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:27:21 CST

The year's "single best tech idea" is a simple trick that makes reading web pages a lot easier, writes David Pogue in the New York Times . Called Readability, "it's a free button for your web browser's toolbar." Click it, and it "eliminates everything from the web page you’re reading except...

Verizon Unveils Droid Smartphone

Harry Kimball — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:44:15 CDT

Verizon's Droid smartphone—built by Motorola and powered by Google's Android—goes on sale Nov. 6 for $200. Some early opinions on the iPhone challenger: The phone is "almost not worth writing about," notes Chris Dannen in Fast Company . It's "fine" but "doesn't advance" the Android platform. About all it...