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The telecom giant buys Centennial in a $2.7 billion deal. A sign is displayed in the window of an AT&T store in New York.

Editor's Note: The following article is reprinted from Network World . Wireless plans are a great place to start for companies looking to cut communications costs, with one firm reporting at VoiceCon that it saved $33,000 per month by renegotiating unfavorable contracts.

One of the city's most popular shopping districts has a new way for drivers to pay for on-street parking, just in time for the holiday shopping season.

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We've been hearing about Isabella Products' cellular-connected Vizit photo frame since early this year.

Lawmakers in Charleston and Washington are working to restrict the use of cell phones and other handheld devices while driving in a bid to cut down on crashes and deaths caused by distracted motorists.

Sales of smartphones are set to out-strip sales of mobile phones by 2012, according to new industry figures Photo: GETTY According to a study by Infonetics Research, smartphones now account for an increasing percentage of worldwide mobile phone revenue.

Telus Corp. and Bell Canada are no longer playing catch-up to chief rival Rogers Communications Inc.

The US investigation into insider trading in America's hedge fund community deepened as federal agents charged 14 more defendants with running a previously undetected ring and added 13 additional individuals and companies to the original charges against Galleon Group.

The longer you live with someone, the more you notice their quirks - both good and bad.

Somali courtship was different in Hassan Aden's day. When he was a teenager, you gave the girl's parents 11 camels and an AK-47 assault rifle as bride price and then waited respectfully.

The inventor of the mobile phone says the devices have become too complex, with a range of features from cameras to music, since he made the first-ever wireless call over three decades ago.

The global smart phone market set a record for shipments in the third quarter as it continues to weather the economic turmoil, research firm IDC said Thursday.

Navigational device maker Garmin Ltd. reported a 24 percent increase in third-quarter profit as lower costs offset a drop in sales.

Last week we covered the early emergence of the TwitterPeek , a handheld device made exclusively to provide Twitter service on the go.

Chunnu Biswas opened his tiny two-room tin-roofed post office in the morning as usual, but another long day stretched ahead without any letters for him to sort or deliver.

Sacdiyo Sheeq used to love listening to Bollywood movie songs on her mobile telephone.

A new study confirms what your 130 Facebook friends and scores of Twitter followers may have already told you: The Internet and mobile phones are not linked to social isolation.

Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons Wednesday on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover.

Nokia unveiled five new mobile phones for emerging markets. The five new Nokia phones are comprised of the Nokia 1280, Nokia 1616, Nokia 1800, Nokia 2220 slide and Nokia 2690.