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Motorola's "Napolean" Q World Phone Gets Leaked: CDMA + GSM Included [Napolean]

Gizmodo |  July 3rd, 2008 | Email this
Motorola's got another Q in the queue in the form of the new Napolean world phone. It's a CDMA smartphone for Verizon that does double duty with GSM, so you can use it pretty much anywhere. It also includes Wi-Fi if you're not feeling like using its EV-DO Revision A [...]
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Mobile Advertising Update

VoIP Blog - Tehrani.com |  July 3rd, 2008 | Email this
The mobile operators have invaluable demographic information regarding their subscribers and it seems that in the US, Sprint Nextel is leading the way in turning their information into gold. One of the challenges for carriers looking to generate ad revenue is developing a privacy policy which makes consumers feel warm [...]
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Credit Suisse Cuts AT&T, Verizon Estimates on Macro Concerns

Seeking Alpha |  July 3rd, 2008 | Email this
Credit Suisse analyst Christopher Larsen Thursday morning trimmed his estimates on both AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ), noting several areas where results are being affected by a slower economy. Larsen writes that “the weakening macro economic environment and more aggressive wireless competition has had a significant impact on the telcos [...]
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Survey Sez: Verizon Again The 'Most Competitive Telecom Provider'

Communication Direct News |  July 3rd, 2008 | Email this
Independent research firm The wRatings Corporation rates Verizon FiOS as the Number One telecom provider for the second year in a row, winning a wRating of 73. Following far behind were Frontier Phone, Dish Network, Embarq, Qwest Telephone, Verizon Telephone, Windstream Phone, Alltel, Verizon Wireless and Charter Cable. At the[...]
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IMS doubt in fashion, but concept keeps rolling

FierceTelecom |  July 3rd, 2008 | Email this
IP Multimedia Subsystem adoption was again a subject of debate at NXTcomm this year, and while carriers and vendors on panels and elsewhere had kind and thoughtful words about IMS, suggesting that the industry has become more realistic about the IMS transition, some industry folk were more critical away from [...]
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Verizon Wins Award for IP Trunking

VoIP News |  July 3rd, 2008 | Email this
The Verizon Burstable Enterprise Shared Trunks, an on-demand networking service from Verizon, has won an award from Technology Marketing Corporation's Internet Telephony publication. The 2008 TMC Labs Innovation Awards are given to products that are innovative, have unique features and contribute to improving communications technology. The Burstable Enterprise Shared Trunks [...]
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T-Mobile Hikes Text Price To 20 Cents Each

mocoNews.net |  July 3rd, 2008 | Email this
T-Mobile USA has raised the price of sending text messages from $0.15 to $0.20, the last of the country's four big carriers to do so. The 33 percent price hike will go into effect on August 29 for those customers without a text bundle, or for those who exceed their [...]
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Giz Explains: IPTV, or Cable From the Phone Company [Giz Explains]

Gizmodo |  July 2nd, 2008 | Email this
If you still rock the bunny ears we salute you. But odds are, you probably get TV one of two ways: Cable or satellite. There's a newer way: IP, that is Internet Protocol, TV—in this case, the TV delivered over the internet by your phone company. Verizon and AT&T; push [...]
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Tech Firms Form Patent Protection Alliance

Communication Direct News |  July 2nd, 2008 | Email this
A report by the Wall Street Journal has outlined a plan by a group of major technology and communications companies to build a group defence against patent infringement lawsuits. Verizon Communications, Google, Cisco Systems, Telefon AB, Ericsson, and Hewlett-Packard are named as the core companies building the group, the Allied[...]
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Verizon/Alltel merger could shave $36M from Syniverse books

BizJournals |  July 2nd, 2008 | Email this
If Verizon Wireless' announced acquisition of Alltel Corp. had been complete at the beginning of the year, Syniverse Holdings Inc. could've witnessed a revenue shortfall of between $33 million and $36 million for 2008, about 7.7 percent of the projected $465 million revenue it expects to earn this year. (SVR) [...]
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Making Music With Verizon Wireless

New York Times |  July 2nd, 2008 | Email this
John Harrobin of Verizon Wireless sees music distribution via cellphone becoming more important as artists leave the big record labels.[...]
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Verizon's Treo 755p gets firmware bump

Engadget Mobile |  July 2nd, 2008 | Email this
Filed under: Software, Palm, Verizon Wireless, Palm OSThe Verizon version of the Treo 755p from Palm is the latest of the world's 755p's to be graced with a firmware update -- or as Palm describes it, a "tune-up." There's very little detail to go on here, with the support page [...]
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Verizon takes 'win-back' fight to court

FierceTelecom |  July 2nd, 2008 | Email this
Verizon Communications has filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia requesting a stay on last month's Federal Communications Commission ruling against Verizon in the 'win-back' fight. The FCC had ruled Verizon was not allowed to use information about its voice customers who were [...]
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Verizon Claims First Amendment Foul

LightReading |  July 2nd, 2008 | Email this
Cable may have won the latest round at the FCC, but Verizon is appealing its phone customer 'win-back' case in a DC court[...]
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Verizon FiOS TV Launches New Channels

Verizon - PolicyBlog |  July 2nd, 2008 | Email this
A little less than a month ago, I gave PolicyBlog readers a preview of the new content coming to FiOS TV screens this summer. I said then that we’d start adding new HD and standard-definition channels in July. Today, we’ve announced the first in a series of channel launches that [...]
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One small step for mobile music?

RCR Wireless |  July 1st, 2008 | Email this
Verizon Wireless' latest effort in the full-track download space is a step in the right direction for mobile music. But it's a very small step. ... - Colin Gibbs[...]
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Manager of Software Device Technology Innovation (Job)

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NJ-Central, Responsibilities Software Technology Manager This position is a high profile key technology innovation role within Verizon Wireless Device Strategy & Planning organization. The Manager of software Dev[...]
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Rep-Retail Service Technician at Verizon (High Point, NC) (Job)

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Applicant Searches Job Description Job Title: Rep-Retail Service Technician Job ID: 211907 Location: NC - High Point Full/Part Time: Part-Time Regular/Temporary: Regular[...]
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Rep-Retail Sales at Verizon (Marion, NC) (Job)

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Applicant Searches Job Description Job Title: Rep-Retail Sales Job ID: 212472 Location: 385-C Hwy 70 W, Marion, NC Full/Part Time: Part-Time Regular/Temporary: Regular[...]
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Assistant Mgr-Retail Sales at Verizon Wireless (Middletown, CT) (Job)

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You are really great at what you do! You can close sales and meet quotas with the best of them. You can also lead a sales team to success and motivate the group to learn, grow,[...]
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