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  • Australia to pay Telstra A$11 billion for entire copper network

    Australia to pay Telstra A$11 billion for entire copper network

    Posted on June 20, 2010 | No Comments
    The Australian government just found the infrastructure for its A$43 billion national broadband project and eliminated its largest competitor in one fell swoop -- pending shareholder and regulator approval, Telstra will receive A$11 billion of that money in exchange for its entire landline network. Telstra will decommission its monopoly of copper cables to make room for the government's fiber and migrate its customers to the resulting 100Mbps National Broadband Network (NBN) as those light-bearing threads roll out. While Telstra might become a smaller player in the internet and cable business without a land network of its own, it may get even larger in the wireless space -- the company says it's received "written confirmation from the Prime Minister" that it can bid on a chunk of precious LTE spectrum should the deal go through. Press release after the break.

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  • Opera Mini for iPhone gets 2.6 million users in 2 weeks

    Opera Mini for iPhone gets 2.6 million users in 2 weeks

    Posted on May 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Safari on the iPhone is by no means a bad mobile browser — in fact, it’s arguably the best one out there. Just because people have something good doesn’t mean they don’t want to peek at what else is out there, though. Even if someone’s dating the finest supermodel in all the lands, they’ll still [...]

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  • Exclusive: The Helio Ocean 3 that could have been

    Exclusive: The Helio Ocean 3 that could have been

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Yesterday was a sad day for me, albeit one that was a long time coming. Yesterday, Helio, a wireless MVNO co-operated by EarthLink and South Korea's SK Telecom, let out its final death cry. As I predicted in March, Virgin Mobile, who had acquired the failing company just two years prior, was pulling the plug on the post-paid side of their service that Helio had become. The lights were dimmed, the blinds were closed, and accounts were terminated. Just like that, Helio was dead. As a small (yet lovely) chunk of our MobileCrunch readers may know, Helio was of some importance to me. On a whim one weekend, long before I became a writer here, I founded a community called Heliocity -- which, as you could probably guess by now, was focused on Helio. It was a pretty tightly knit group of 10 thousand-or-so of the geekiest geeks you'll ever meet, hacking at -- and nerding out over -- every Helio phone we could get our hands on. That community got me into blogging, which took me to all sorts of industry events, where I in turn met all the people who eventually lead me to my job here at TechCrunch. To celebrate this nostalgia and recognize the rather cool company that once was, I present: the Helio Ocean 3. This is the phone that was to be Helio's savior; this is their unfinished magnum opus. Prior to today, it was a myth; no one outside of the company had seen it, and the number of people within the company who had seen it could be counted on two hands.

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  • Verizon: Android 2.1 rollout for Droid Eris begins today, done within 2 weeks

    Verizon: Android 2.1 rollout for Droid Eris begins today, done within 2 weeks

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    We called it yesterday, and sure enough, Verizon has just confirmed it: the Droid Eris’ migration to Android 2.1 begins today. According to Verizon’s own official support stream, the Droid Eris updates should begin hitting handsets “as of today”. As is par for the course, it’s a gradual roll-out; a small chunk of device owners will [...]

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  • Contest: iHome wants to help you wake up

    Contest: iHome wants to help you wake up

    Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Here's your chance to learn about and win an iHome iA5 iPhone/iPod dock with alarm clock!

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  • Zeus keylogger affects Firefox, Internet Explorer users doing online banking

    Zeus keylogger affects Firefox, Internet Explorer users doing online banking

    Posted on April 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Ooh, this is a nasty one, isn't it? There's a computer virus out there called Zeus that targets users engaged in online banking. It affects users running Firefox and Internet Explorer—a fair chunk of all Internet users, then. As always, the best policy here is to keep your wits about you as you browse the Internet.

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  • T-Mobile: Give up your iPhone and we’ll give you $350 off an HD2

    T-Mobile: Give up your iPhone and we’ll give you $350 off an HD2

    Posted on April 5, 2010 | No Comments
    It’s 6:30 am. The Alarm app on your iPhone screams to life, the handset vibrating across the table. You grab it before it shuffles off the edge. You stare at the screen. It stares back. “It’s 6:30 AM! Snooze?”, it says through a fake, one-tooth grin. “I hate you, iPhone. I wish you were an HD2.” If [...]

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  • Dear Square Enix: Just remake Final Fantasy VII already

    Dear Square Enix: Just remake Final Fantasy VII already

    Posted on March 19, 2010 | No Comments
    I'll just point you in the direction of this weird rant... thing about Final Fantasy. It sorta explains the differences between Final Fantasy I and Final Fantasy XIII. Something about honor and inns and whatnot. Yeah. More importantly, let's discuss the possibility of Square Enix remaking Final Fantasy VII, because that hasn't been done before on the Internet.

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  • Viper SmartStart now lets you start your car from your BlackBerry, too

    Viper SmartStart now lets you start your car from your BlackBerry, too

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    A few months back, Directed Electronics launched an iPhone app that, when paired with Viper remote start system, would allow you to start your car from just about anywhere on earth. For the bargain price of just $500, you'd never again have to worry about your car being too hot, too cold, or too not on when you got in. Alas, not everyone has an iPhone - what about the remaining chunk of the world that wants to look like James Bond and/or scare people? Today, Direct Electronics is letting another big group of people in on the slightly-extraneous fun with the release of Viper SmartStart for BlackBerry.

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  • Virgin Mobile USA To Kill Their Postpaid Service On May 25th

    Virgin Mobile USA To Kill Their Postpaid Service On May 25th

    Posted on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
    According to a series of tips I just received from multiple trusted sources, Virgin Mobile USA is planning to shut down the post-paid chunk of their wireless services on May 25th, 2010. You see, there once was a little wireless carrier called Helio. Bringing over all kinds of crazy sliding what-nots from South Korea, they tried their damnedest to offer the coolest cell phones on the block. They also bled money like a busted spigot, burning $710 million before they were ready to call it quits. In June of 2008, Virgin Mobile (who then offered solely pre-paid wireless) came along and snatched up Helio for $39 million in stock, primarily to serve as a foundation for their then non-existent postpaid service. A great plan, until Sprint acquired Virgin Mobile just a year later, primarily for their pre-paid service.

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  • Virgin Mobile USA To Kill Their Postpaid Service (Helio) On May 25th

    Virgin Mobile USA To Kill Their Postpaid Service (Helio) On May 25th

    Posted on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Update: This is now confirmed. See Virgin Mobile's statement after the jump. According to a series of tips I just received from multiple trusted sources, Virgin Mobile USA is planning to shut down the post-paid chunk of their wireless services on May 25th, 2010. You see, there once was a little wireless carrier called Helio. Bringing over all kinds of crazy sliding what-nots from South Korea, they tried their damnedest to offer the coolest cell phones on the block. They also bled money like a busted spigot, burning $710 million before they were ready to call it quits. In June of 2008, Virgin Mobile (who then offered solely pre-paid wireless plans) came along and snatched up Helio for $39 million in stock, primarily to serve as a foundation for their then non-existent postpaid service. A great plan, until Sprint acquired Virgin Mobile just a year later, primarily for their pre-paid service.

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  • Symbian^4 shown off on video, seems.. uninspired

    Symbian^4 shown off on video, seems.. uninspired

    Posted on February 26, 2010 | No Comments
    All around the world, the Symbian-loving chunk of the population is waiting on the edge of their seats for Symbian^4 (pronounced “Symbian Four”). Intended as a complete overhaul from Symbian past, it could very well slingshot the visibly aged Operating System into modern times. The first videos of Symbian^4 have just been released for public consumption, [...]

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  • Sprint applies pressure, but still bled quite a bit in fourth quarter

    Sprint applies pressure, but still bled quite a bit in fourth quarter

    Posted on February 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Over the past few years, Sprint has definitely given itself a facelift and now has excellent pricing plans and some decent handsets. Sadly, things aren't turning around as quickly as Sprint would like since it has been showing some tremendous losses the past few quarters. The fourth quarter, however, shows that Sprint is slowly but surely easing its way to where it wants to be.

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  • Identity theft costs rise overall, while costs per victim decline

    Identity theft costs rise overall, while costs per victim decline

    Posted on February 10, 2010 | No Comments
    According to an article at Forbes, identity theft and related fraud were up considerably in 2009 with 11.2 million victims for an estimated cost of $54 billion U.S. dollars. In 2008, just under 10 million people were ripped off as a result of identify theft, for an estimated cost of $48 billion. Interestingly, the cost to individuals as a result of data breaches has declined from $498 in 2008 to only $373 in 2009. Who, then, is picking up the tab for identity theft incidents? Increasingly it's the financial institutions with whom we entrust our money.

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  • BlackBerry Cufflinks – Perfect for that someone who wants to look good, but still be kind of weird

    BlackBerry Cufflinks – Perfect for that someone who wants to look good, but still be kind of weird

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Oh no! The fundraiser is in 2 hours, and you’re not even dressed yet! What are you going to do? Sure, you want to look sharp; that’s why you rented the suit. But you still want people to know that you’re a geek, man. You’ve spent too many years fixing other peoples computers and being [...]

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