Super-cookie crumbles: Verizon vows to kill off hated zombie stalkers [ Tue Feb 3 2015]

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Sky sidles up to O2, whispers: 'Fancy a little FOUR-PLAY?'
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Mobile broadband giants blow $45bn on Uncle Sam's finest air
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EE squashes Orange UK: France Telecom's been 'destroying it for years'
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Smartphones merge into homogeneous mass as 'flagship fatigue' bites
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A year with Canada's Volvo-esque smartphone – The BlackBerry Z30
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Post-modem Ericsson wobbles thanks to flat sales and falling profits
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Apple CEO: Fandroids are BINNING Android in favour of IPHONES
Tim Cook puts numbers on his world domination claim
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Microsoft 'showers gold' on anti-Google Cyanogen and its Android
alternative
Redmond part of $70m funding round, say sources
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Friends, Canadians, countrymen: Would you buy a GOLD PLATED BlackBerry
Passport?
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'Super-secure' BlackPhone pwned by super-silly txt msg bug
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What's that, Microsoft? Yep, a Lumia and Surface SALES BOOM
But are you making money?
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Linux chaps want to recycle your mobe as a supercomputer
Slot your old smartphone into this chassis and let penguins pick its
brains
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Microsoft Outlook comes to Android, iOS: MS email now a bit less
painful on mobile
... Unless you're on Windows Phone, obviously
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*** Regulators News ***

Dish, AT&T, Verizon's mobile broadband bids slash US debt by 0.13%
YES! NOW WE'RE COOKING ON GAS!
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Listen up, AT&T, this could be YOU NEXT: $40m sting for throttling
'unlimited' mobile data
TracFone has to give peeps what it advertised – whoa
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Euro mobile standards chiefs eye tiny beauty: It's the KEY to 5G
Millimetre wave spectrum
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Three to pleasure bumpkins with 800MHz
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Dixons Carphone clings to EE, Three in Phones 4U bullet dodge
Rush of deals will insulate firm from collapse - it hopes
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Super-cookie crumbles: Verizon vows to kill off hated zombie stalkers
This time opt-out actually means opt-out, we're told
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Powering the Internet of Stuff – by sucking electricity from TREES
Where are my generating wellies?
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*** And finally ... ***

NXP flings sueball at Marvell over Xbox NFC chips
IP lawfare takes on new dimension – but for why?
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Supersonic Bloodhound car techies in screaming 650mph comms test
HD video at Mach 1+? No biggie, say cool-cat engineers
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