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Researchers at Rice Univ. say they've come up with a way to make data on cell-phone nets flow both ways by making each end of a connection deaf to its own 'voice.'

Verizon customers suffer spotty data and voice outages on both coasts; Verizon still confident iPhone launch in mid-February won't cause more problems.

Wasn't it only a couple of months ago that AT&T was criticizing wireless carrier rival T-Mobile USA for bragging in ads about having "America's Largest 4G Network" when, in fact, T-Mobile's network was decidedly 3G?

Living or working in an area with weak or intermittent mobile service (voice and/or 3G-4G data) can be a serious problem, but T-Mobile's hushed trials of a new device called the Cel-Fi could offer a solution (and unlike femtocells such as AT&T's Microcell and Verizon's Network Extender, it won't require broadband Internet access to do it).

If you thought the iPhone 3G was bad, wait until everyone is trying to videoconference at once!

When paradigms collapse!