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bloomberg.com - 12/4/2008

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AT&T Defies Slump With IPhone, Coaxes People to Spend (Update3) By Amy Thomson Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- AT&T Inc. may defy the recession, posting faster subscriber growth this holiday season by tempting shoppers to unclench their wallets for luxury brands like the iPhone even as consumers scrimp ...

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att.com - 12/4/2008

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— att.com — Jump to content. AT&T En Espa ol | Other Languages | Contact Us Residential Small Business Enterprise... Solutions Customer Support Corporate Information Search Refine Search Sign-up and Save! Exclusive offers and helpful tips from our ... (more) News Room

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seattlepi.nwsource.com - 12/11/2008

Sprint hopes to harness Android to lure customers

— seattlepi.nwsource.com — Sprint Nextel Corp. is ready to offer a phone based on Google Inc.'s Android operating system within... a year. (more) Sprint hopes to harness Android to lure customers

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gigaom.com - 12/9/2008

Sprint Getting Closer to Android Phone? [GigaOM]

— gigaom.com — Today Sprint offered the line up for its upcoming mobile developer’s conference on Dec. 10-12, which will... include a keynote by Rich Miner, Google’s vice president of mobile technology. While we’ve known that Sprint was considering ... (more) Sprint Getting Closer to Android Phone? [GigaOM]

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Analyst: AT&T defies economic slump thanks to Apple iPhone, tempts people to spend
MacDailyNews — ... not backing away from this.'" "Apple sold a record 6.9 million iPhones 3Gs last quarter, compared with 6.1 million BlackBerry devices over the same period. The company, which had pledged to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008, has already surpassed that goal, according to Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs," Thomson reports. "The iPhone 3G surpassed Motorola Inc.’s Razr as the most popular handset for adults in the U.S. last quarter, according to researcher NPD Group Inc." Full article here .

One of These Headlines Does Not Go With The Other [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — Below is a partial snapshot of MacDailyNews’ home page as of 18:00 PT on December 4. These two AT&T headlines, one immediately after the other, struck me as kind of funny:  Not sure if we should consider AT&T as “defying an economic slump” when it’s laying off 12K of its workforce and reducing capital expenditures. I’m not criticizing MDN, the headlines actually link to two different sources (the former is Bloomberg; the latter is MarketWatch), so it’s not a case of the same source contradicting itself. MDN is a news aggregator, so the juxtaposition of different ...

Linkpost | 12.5.2008
TechBlog — Should I get a new PC with 64-bit Windows Vista? | Main December 05, 2008 Linkpost | 12.5.2008 • Destructive Koobface virus turns up on Facebook - Entices users to click with notices about embarrassing videos. • Firefox users targeted by rare piece of malware - Collects passwords for banking sites, and only impacts Firefox. • Mozilla to pull antiphishing feature from Firefox 2.0 at Google's request - Uses an obsolete protocol. • Readers React to David Pogue's Review of the BlackBerry Storm - In which Pogue discovers that "BlackBerry nuts" are more rabid than Mac zealots. • AT&T hopes for single smart ...

AT&T wants a Symbian iPhone?  Are you kidding me?
Gadgetell — Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile Man, would I have loved to be in the crowd at the Symbian Partner Conference when AT&T’s Director of Next Generation Services, Roger Smith, stated the telecom’s lofty goal of having the company’s smartphone offerings on the same operating system.  You know what is coming: he said Symbian is “a very credible and likely candidate” to become that one operating system. Symbian who? Symbian, which garners 45% or so of the worldwide smartphone OS market, owes much of its success to ...