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Verizon Wireless, Sprint to pay $158 million in settlement fees for overcharging practices

You might want to check your Verizon Wireless or Sprint bill to make sure it’s accurate. Or at least look into the class action lawsuit against the carriers to see if you qualify for part of the settlement. Wireless carriers Verizon Wireless and Sprint will pay a combined total of US$158 million to settle billing […]

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Hours after citing capable security, CurrentC announces unauthorized access of users’ email accounts

Hubris, anyone? Just hours after publishing a blog post answering some questions about its upcoming CurrentC mobile payments system and touting the security of its cloud-based storage of sensitive information, the company behind the effort, Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) has alerted users of unauthorized access to their email addresses. Per MacRumors, the company released the […]

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Australian iPhone 4 glowing/fire incident found to be caused by failed screen replacement, not battery

Ok, remember the Australian glowing/fire/iPhone 4 plane thing from this past November? It wasn’t the battery. Per AppleInsider, an investigation into the cause of an iPhone 4 that began glowing and emitting “dense smoke” on a flight landing in Sydney, Australia last fall has traced the problem to a battery punctured by a screw misplaced […]

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Apple begins hunting down, closing device slots of users running unauthorized iOS 5 beta versions

If you’re using an unauthorized iOS 5 beta, Apple probably wants you to stop. Per Karthikk.net, Apple has reportedly begun closing the accounts of some developers who have inappropriately sold their account device slots, allowing them to profit from the installation iOS 5 on unauthorized non-developer iPhones and iPads. Some developers who sold their slots […]