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Rhapsody today launched a DRM-free music store, and is offering 100,000 free tracks. Offering a catalog of over 5 million songs, the new service allows customers to access their library for $.99/song or $9.99/album. As an incentive to sign off, Rhapsody is offering a free album to the first 100,000 people to sign [...]

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The Motorola Blaze

It appears as if the touchscreen battle isn’t quite over yet, as Boy Genius Report has reported on a Motorola Blaze, specifically for Verizon. The handset pulls design cues from each of the phones in the current Motorola lineup - MING, PEBL, and the color of the AT&T RAZR2.
The phone offers a [...]

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The announcement concerning Verizon buying Alltel is quite obvious by now, but few knew that Alltel attempted to purchase Sprint three times, as well as T-Mobile and AT&T before going private.  During a recent interview with CEO Scott Ford, Talk Business host Roby Brock discussed Alltel prior to going private 
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Starting July 1, MVNO Virgin Mobile USA will start offering its ‘Totally Unlimited’ wireless plan, which includes nationwide calling anytime or anyplace with no hidden roaming or long-distance charges.
The new offering, which doesn’t go live until the first of July, allows customers to pay with cash, credit, or debit and does not require an annual [...]

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How this will work with the pending Verizon Wireless/Alltel merger isn’t clear as of yet; however Alltel Wireless today announced its intent to upgrade 18 of it’s wireless markets to EVDO Rev. A within the next six months.  Little Rock, Charlotte, New Orleans, Phoenix and Tampa are a few of the markets being upgraded to the new technology.  Alltel’s Rev. A [...]

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Earlier this week Verizon announced that it will begin offering its 50 and 20Mbps FiOS internet services across its entire 16 state footprint, and that other tiers of its FiOS internet service would be receiving a speed boost as well.  This is seemingly in response to an announcement from Comcast earlier that said that it [...]

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LG VX8610 Decoy

Verizon’s new LG VX8610 Decoy arrived at our doorstep today and we thought we would share some photos as we take the wraps off the first phone offered by Verizon to integrate a Bluetooth headset right into its body.
This CDMA slider handset supports 3G EV-DO data and supports Verizon’s many features, including V [...]

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Verizon is about to reward non-landline users like myself who decided long ago to cut the cord from local telephone companies. Currently, Verizon only offers bundled service discounts for customers that have landlines.
According to the Associated Press, Verizon will start offering a Flex Double Play bundle that offers discounts for Verizon’s customers that purchas [...]

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Nokia 6205 The Dark Knight edition

Verizon officially announced Nokia’s 6205 The Dark Knight edition cell phone in honor of next month’s movie debut of Batman: The Dark Knight. Clad in a black hue throughout, this Batman themed 6205 also sports a logo around back and a 1.3″ 65k TFT external display on its front, [...]

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BlackBerry Niagra

The Boy Genius Report is reporting that there is evidence of a few new BlackBerry devices from RIM in the works. We will be sure to keep you updated as the news/rumors become available.
New BlackBerry devices:

BlackBerry Seawolf 9110 - GSM flip phone (Kickstart-style), GPS for AT&T
BlackBerry Javelin - 2G GSM/EDGE, QWERTY keyboard (Bold-style), [...]

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