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Charge Your iPhone with Your Headphones! Wait, What?

Look out, your next iOS device may do away with that fussy charging cable and cradle. In its place? A pair of earbuds. Yep, I said earbuds. Those things you stick in your ears to listen to music, or maybe use to lasso a pen off your desk if you’re lazy (as well as adept at making lassos out of earphones, which probably means you’d be …

Why Unlocked Phones May Be the Smarter Alternative

I have a confession to make: I haven’t used a locked phone since 2005.

Of course, it would make perfect sense if I had hopped between several different carriers since then, but the truth is that I’ve been with one single carrier since 2004. Just yesterday, we made a good fuss about whether the $649 unlocked iPhone 4 is worth it. …

We Can Now Talk to Computers with Our Minds

Using techniques usually reserved for identifying epilepsy in patients, a team of scientists at Washington University were able to successfully have subjects move computer cursors using nothing but their thoughts.

To make it work, the scientists first utilized a temporary surgical implant attached to regions of the brain that pertain …

Verizon CEO: We Don’t Need Sprint

Verizon doesn’t want to buy Sprint, despite this week’s merger between AT&T and T-Mobile.

Verizon CEO Daniel Mead told Reuters:

“We’re not interested in Sprint. We don’t need them.”

The $39 billion AT&T-Mobile deal, announced on Sunday but expected to take months to complete, puts the newly combined company at the the top of the

Prepaid MiFi Device Coming From Virgin Mobile on Monday

Virgin Mobile will give semi-frequent travelers even less reason to get locked into a two year wireless data contract on Monday when its prepaid MiFi device hits shelves in Best Buy and Radio Shack stores.

The MiFi is a battery powered pocket router that pulls in a 3G data signal over Sprint’s network, which Virgin Mobile leases, and …

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