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Verizon Kills Planned $2 Convenience Charge Following Uproar

Lauren Goode and Ina Fried in Mobile on December 30, 2011 at 12:46 pm PT

The company backtracks on a planned fee for one-time credit card payments made online or by phone.

Verizon Introduces “Convenience Fee” for Some Online, Phone Payments

Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 29, 2011 at 1:33 pm PT

There are still plenty of ways to avoid that $2 charge, however.

Verizon’s ThunderBolt Moves Like Lightning

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on March 23, 2011 at 6:19 pm PT

Verizon’s ThunderBolt 4G cellphone is a speed demon, zipping past rival 4G phones’ cellular-data speeds and even past many home land-line Internet connections.

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An App For That? Five Ways Banks Could Learn From Apple's iPad

David Weidner, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 18, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

The line for the iPad 2 at Apple’s White Plains, N.Y., store stretched around the third level of the mall. The line blocked restaurants, Anthropologie and Brooks Brothers stores. Security guards had to keep the escalator exits clear. Meanwhile, the nation’s banks are getting attention by covertly raising fees charged to customers who use their automated teller machines: a whopping $5 in some cases.

Viacom Sold Rock Band for a Song. A Really, Really Cheap Song.

Peter Kafka in Media on January 4, 2011 at 3:30 am PT

If you’ve got $49.99, you can buy a copy of “Rock Band 3.” Or you could have bought the company that makes the videogame. Ouch.

Virtual Monday? How Holiday Shopping Has Included Intangibles.

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 3, 2010 at 11:06 am PT

Cyber Monday reached a record-breaking level this year with more than $1 billion dollars spent online, making it the heaviest U.S. online shopping day ever. And that includes the intangibles in our lives that you can’t touch or feel, and can’t ship in a box, like e-books and music and virtual goods.

RIM Sends Message to Kik by Filing Lawsuit

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 1, 2010 at 11:19 am PT

Two weeks ago, the BlackBerry Messenger lookalike was banned by Research In Motion from its app store, and now the company is sending a more serious message by filing a lawsuit against Waterloo, Ontario-based Kik, claiming patent infringement.

The eMoney Ribbon Cutting

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 1, 2010 at 5:28 am PT

Welcome to the grand opening of eMoney. I’m Tricia Duryee, one of the latest additions to All Things Digital. You may know me from the three years I spent at mocoNews, where I wrote about the mobile industry, or before that, as a technology reporter at the Seattle Times. Going forward, I’ll write about e-commerce and gaming.

Boxee Goes Hunting for Big Bucks

Peter Kafka in Media on November 8, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

Boxee hits a big milestone this week, when its very own Boxee Box hits the market. But that won’t help the start-up pay its growing staff, which is why Avner Ronen is out raising a big round.

Another Cable Company Shows You How to Live Without Cable

Peter Kafka in Media on October 28, 2010 at 12:43 pm PT

Cablevision would very much like its three million cable TV subscribers to keep subscribing. But while it fights with Fox over programming fees, it’s going to show its customers how to live without cable. Today’s lesson: How to get legal streams of the World Series over the Web.