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FCC Examines Verizon's Doubling of Early Termination Fees

Barack Obama's consumer-friendly FCC is asking Verizon Wireless to explain why it recently doubled Early Termination Fees for its customers. Read full story

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Six Best BlackBerry Accessories and Add-Ons for $100 TOTAL
Buying a new BlackBerry smartphone? Looking to spruce up an old Pearl or Curve 83xx? You've come to the right place. Our list of the top six best BlackBerry accessories will have your device, old or new, outfitted and up to snuff in no time. Best of all, the half dozen of them can be had for $100 total.

Google Strives to Make Public DNS Secure
In an effort to enhance the Web experience and speed things up for users, Google is getting into the DNS business. DNS has privacy and security implications, though, that Google has to take into consideration in providing this service.

Great Tech Gadgets: When Spouses Collide
Your tech dream may be your significant other's nightmare. Here are the items our married tech experts drool over (while belittling one another's choices).

Obama warns against turning away 'the best and the brightest'
At the White House Jobs Summit yesterday, President Barack Obama said it's important for the U.S. to to encourage talented foreigners to attend U.S. universities and to stay afterwards to create new businesses.

How to Keep Your Data Center Happy for the Holidays
Shoppers are mobbing online stores, boosting traffic numbers and making it even more important that e-commerce firms handle the demand well. Data center gurus better make a list of holiday traffic lessons and check it twice.

Microsoft Promises 6 Updates for Final Patch Tuesday of '09
Microsoft has published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for December 2009. According to the notice, Microsoft will release a total of six new security bulletins next Tuesday for the final Patch Tuesday of 2009.

MIT grabs DARPA's Great Red Balloon Hunt prize
Almost as soon as it was launched, in only nine hours in fact, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team won the $40,000 cash prize in the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that required participants to locate 10 large, red balloons at undisclosed locations across the United States.

Bankers in Cisco/Tandberg deal set to divvy up $39M in fees
According to a Reuters story today, Cisco's M&A advisers on the Tandberg deal - Lazard and Carnegie, can expect to split fees of $17 to $19 million. Furthermore, dealmaker Freeman & Co. is predicting that Tandberg's financial adiviser - JPMorgan, will rake in fees of $18 to $20 million from the deal.

Android SDK Doesn't Address Issues Faced by Developers
Google has released a new version of the Android SDK. Version 2.0.1 is a minor update to the Android platform, not a significant release, and it doesn't address the most serious issues faced by Android developers.

The Apple Tablet is the most intriguing Apple product since the iPhone, and may prove to be just as revolutionary
Before Steve Jobs introduced the world to the iPhone at Macworld 2007, the device was the subject of incessant and countless rumors, yet no one really had a firm grasp on what the iPhone actually was. In a similar vein, rumors of the impending Apple tablet seem to be picking up steam, and much like the iPhone, well-formed ideas as to what the device is actually capable of remain blurry at best.

Uproar over E.T. hunter misplaced, SETI@home founder says
The school superintendent investigating a former employee who ran the SETI@home program on school computers doesn't understand how the technology works or that the project is well-respected, experts in the technology field say.

Smartphones to make beautiful music at University of Michigan concert
University of Michigan students on Dec. 9 will perform a unique concert: they will play instruments on their smartphones that they built in class.

Experts Not Surprised By iPhone Malicious App Report
Malicious iPhone apps that Apple unwittingly approves could attack even non-jailbroken iPhones, according to a developer, but security experts say this isn't earth-shattering news.

Air Force extends plug-and-play spacecraft
Looking to build strategic satellites in day if need be, rather than months, the Air Force is pushing forward with what it calls plug-and-play spacecraft.

10 Blu-ray Titles That Show Off Classic Movie Formats
Blu-ray's high-definition resolution isn't just suitable for new Hollywood blockbusters -- it can also showcase revitalized cinematic classics.

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