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Free Phone Calls... If Advertisers Can Eavesdrop
Is XMPP the 'Next Big Thing'
Single Photons Bounced Off Orbiting Satellite
FCC's Spectrum Auction Approaches $20B in Bids
Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork
Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You
The World's Languages Are Fast Becoming Extinct
Swedish Company Trials Peer-to-Peer Cellphones
"Stealth" Plasma Antennas
Can Apple + AT&T Shut Down iPhone Unlockers?
Google Phone Rumors Solidifying
Nano-Scale Optical Co-Axial Cables Announced
The Next Big Thing — Why Web 2.0 Isn't Enough
Cell Phone Jamming on the Rise
Colossus Cracks Again
Google Introduces Gmail Paper
Google Working on a Mobile Phone?
MSN Censors Your IM
New GPS Navigator Relies On 'Wisdom of the Crowds'
New Telescope Array Goes Live For SETI
Scientists Deliver 'God' Via A Helmet
Smartphone Shootout
Verizon vs. the Needham Fire Department
What Do You Want In iPhone 2.0?
Yahoo Tries to Improve Your Inbox
Anonymous Programmers Reveal iPhone Unlocking Software
Call Someone – Without Having To Talk To Them
Hearing Voices? Could Be the Lasers
How SBC (AT&T) Pillaged South Africa's Economy
Massive Canadian Class-Action Cellphone Suit Is Approved
Mozilla Creates New Internet Mail and Communications Company
Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora
Nokia's iPhone, No Seriously
Skype Worm Infects Windows PCs
The True Cost of SMS Messages
Verizon Wireless Opt-Out Plan For Customer Records
Vodafone Move Invites Web Development Chaos
AT&T To Decommission Pay Phones
AU Government Demands Universal Wiretapping
Apple Legend Woz Blasts iPhone Price Drop
Apple Sued Over iPhone Bricking
Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Bees?
Are Spammers Giving Up?
Cellphone App Developed that Could Allow For 'Pocket Supercomputers'
Does the UK iPhone Plan Add Up?
GPhone Still In the Works At Google
Google's Head of Research — We Don't Do Hardware
House Approves Warrantless Wiretapping Extension
How to Backup Your Smart Phone
Internal Emails of An RIAA Attack Dog Leaked
Microsoft's Ballmer: Google Reads Your Mail
Mobile Phones to Monitor Traffic Congestion
New Flavour of Spam - MP3 Stock Scams
New Technologies Attack the One-World Problem
Predicting The Google Phone
Swede Hacks Embassy Account Information From Around the World
The Journey of Radios From Hardware to Software
The Man Behind the Google Phone
The Rise of the Linux-Based Cellphone
The Smiley Face Turns 25 :-)
iPhone Likely Set to Launch in the UK Next Week
100 Email Bouncebacks - Welcome to Backscattering
A Look Back at One of the Original Phreaks
A Scooter With Everything (For Certain Values of Everything)
AOL Adopting Jabber (XMPP)
AT&T Dumps VOIP Customers
Alternative Uses For an Old Satellite Dish?
Apple Makes $831 On Each AT&T iPhone
BBC iPlayer Bandwidth Explosion Bodes Ill For ISPs
Blogger Incites Outcry Over Twitter Harassment
Bluetooth Spam In Public Spaces
Can Any Router Guarantee Bandwidth For VoIP?
Canadian Phone Company Selling Porn
Cell Towers Not Responsible For Illness
Charter Accidentally Wipes 14K Email Accounts
Children Concerned By Parents' Web Habits
Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband"
EDGE Can Out-Perform 3G; Here's Why
FBI Illegally Tapped Phone Phreaks In 1969
First North American OpenMoko/FreeRunners Arrive
Folders vs. Tags For Shared Email Accounts?
Google Hopes to Disaggregate Carriers with gPhone
Google Pledging to Bid $4.6bn to Open Spectrum
Google Ready to Bid on 700 MHz
Google's Open Source Mobile Platform
How Japan's Biggest BBS Keeps Things Simple
IPhones Flooding Wireless LAN At Duke
ISPs Fight To Keep Broadband Gaps Secret
Instant Messaging For Introverts
Is Tech Bringing Us Closer Together Instead of Allowing Us to Sprawl?
Japan Launches "Super-Speed" Internet Satellite
Krugman On the Connectivity Power Shift
Large Web Host Urges Customers to Use Gmail
Making Free Phone Calls With Google's GrandCentral
Mass Storage For Phones
Mobile Linux Group Releases First Specification
Motorola Develops Bare-Bones Phone
Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook
Multitasking Makes You Stupid and Slow
New Bill to Clarify Cellphone Contracts
New Phone Wants to be Your Personal Trainer
Newton's Ghost Haunts Apple's iPhone
Nokia to Acquire and Open Source Symbian
Nokia's Cellphone Anthropologist
Quickies — MIT's Intelligent Sticky Notes
Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill
Sign Language Via Cell Phone
Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited
Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent
Third Undersea Cable Cut
UK PM's Aide Loses BlackBerry In Chinese Honeytrap
US GPS, EU Galileo to Work Together
Will Telecommuting Kill a Career?
Wireless Networks That Build Themselves
iPhone App Enables GSM To WiFi/VoIP Switching
iPhone Freed From AT&T, Twice
iPhone's Game Potential As a Threat to Java Phone Games
White House Ordered to Preserve All Email
AT&T Gears Up for the iPhone
AT&T Invents Surveillance Programming Language
AT&T Stops 'Time', Ends An Era
Activation Problems in iPhone Paradise
Analyzing Apple's iPhone Strategy
Apple Plans Cheaper Nano-Based iPhone
Apple Says 250,000 iPhones Sold to Unlockers
Apple and Google Are Telecom's Newest Stars
Blackberry Network is Down
Blackberry Owners Chained to Work
British Report Details the Stress of Email Communication
CPI Sues FCC Over U.S. Broadband Competition
Cellphones Leapfrog Poor Infrastructure in Mali
Comcast Charges $1000 Per Wiretap
Comcast Proposes Self Regulation and P2P Bill of Rights
Communicating Persuasively, Email or Face-to-Face?
Compressed VoIP Leaves Eavesdropping Clues
Corporate Email Etiquette - Dead or Alive?
Court Rules Against TorrentSpy In MPAA Email Suit
Do Not Call Listings to Expire in 2008
Dvorak to Apple - Stop The iPhone
Encrypt and Sign Gmail messages with FireGPG
Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic
Exec Confirms Google Phone
FAA Mandates Major Aircraft "Black Box" Upgrade
FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network
FCC Looks To Offer Consumers More Wireless Choice
FCC Puts 4.6 Billion Minimum Bid on Spectrum Auction
FCC, FAA Still Don't Want Cell Phones on Planes
Fighting Back Against Ghost Calls
Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week
France Bans BlackBerries In Govt. On Fears of Spying
GPS Transitions to New Control System
Germany Implements Sweeping Data Retention Policies
Google Announces "Open Phone" Coalition, No gPhone [Updated]
Google Launches Lively, an Avatar Based 3D World
Google Looks to "White Space" Spectrum
Google May Close Gmail Germany Over Privacy Law
Google Shows Off Ad-Supported Cell Phone
Google's Android Cellphone SDK Released
Google, Sun Headed for Showdown Over Android
Guide to DIY Wiretapping
High Def Microphone for Mobile Computing
High-Tech Squirrels Trained to Conduct Espionage
Hotmail vs Goodmail
How Not to Build a Cellphone
ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients
Is Comcast Heading the Way of the Dinosaur?
Kids Say Email is Dead
Mozilla and Google — Exchange Killers At Last?
Must-Have Extensions for Thunderbird 2.0
NYC Lawyers Subpoena Code
Number of Cellphones Now Equal To Half the Human Species
Open Source Phone on the Way
Out With E-Voting, In With M-Voting
Paying People to Argue With You
Phone Companies Refuse to Give Congress Data on Spy Program
Protecting IM From Big Brother
Rumors of Google and Dell iPhone Rival
Spam Hits 95% of All Email
Spammer That Sued Spamhaus Now Sued for Spamming
Steve Jobs Announces iPhone SDK
Study Finds Instant Messaging Helps Productivity
T-Mobile Announces WiFi Meshing Cellphone
The End for Vonage?
Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted
Thunderbird to Leave Mozilla Foundation
Transform Cellphones Into a CCTV Swarm
US Army "Scams" Service Members to Test Their Spam Gullibility
Verizon Sues FCC over 700MHz Open Access Rules
Vonage Barred From Using Verizon VoIP Patents
Web Browser Wars Go Mobile
What Happens If You Don't Pay for Goodmail?
What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam
What To Do When Broadband is Not An Option?
Why Is Less Than 99.9% Uptime Acceptable?
WiMax Folded Into 3G 'Family'
Wikileaks Publishes FBI VoIP Surveillance Docs
gTalk To Get Video Boost?
iPhone Battery Replacement An Unwelcome Surprise
iPhone Bill a Whopping 52 Pages Long
iPhone Business Model Hits a Snag in France