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MSN released Oct. 1 a beta form of My Health Info, an “online service that helps people manage their health information on the Web,” Microsoft said in a statement. The service “offers people a variety of tools and widgets [with which] to upload, organize and monitor health information stored in their personal Microsoft HealthVault accounts.”HealthVault, […]

Well, back to the drawing board. Verizon Wireless said Sept. 30 it was discontinuing sales for its Verizon Hub, a VOIP home phone that also served as a Web tablet. In January, Verizon Wireless said it was reinventing the standard home phone with the Hub.The Hub retailed for $199 and required a $34.99 monthly fee […]

AT&T acquired Sept. 30 privately held Plusmo, a provider of cross-platform mobile application solutions. AT&T said the deal would bring to the telecom giant an open standards technology that will hopefully simplify mobile application development. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but Plusmo will become a part of AT&T Interactive, and the Plusmo mobile […]

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, asked the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Sept. 29 to hold employers accountable by requesting evidence from petitioners that H-1B visa holders actually have a job waiting for them in the United States. Grassley’s comments came after several small Iowa communities were used as nothing more than mail drops in an […]

Depending on the definition of broadband speed, providing universal broadband would cost between $20 billion and $350 billion, according to a preliminary report released Sept. 29 by Federal Communications Commission task force charged with delivering the National Broadband Plan to Congress. The wide-ranging report also noted that its initial findings show actual broadband speeds lag […]

Wearing a large, red clown nose, Guy Laliberte took off early Sept. 30 for the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz capsule accompanied by cosmonaut Maxim Surayev and American astronaut Jeffrey Williams. When the spacecraft entered orbit minutes after blasting off from the Baikonur launch facility, friends and family of the Cirque du Soleil […]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration signed a permanent agreement Sept. 30 giving the international global community and the private sector more control over the Internet’s global domain naming system.This new arrangement brings to an end the series of short-term agreements between the U.S. government through […]

AT&T said Sept. 29 it would exclusively offer the Garmin n??vifone G60 beginning Oct. 4. The phone combines a GPS navigator with voice, data and the mobile Web. The n??vifone G60 will be available in AT&T stores or online for $299 with a two-year service agreement after $100 mail-in-rebate. N??vifone Premium Connected Services which includes […]

And then there were three: Vodafone and Apple confirmed Sept. 29 that they have reached agreement to bring iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS to the UK and Ireland in early 2010. The announcement came just one day after France Telecom’s Orange said it will begin selling the Apple iPhone in the UK later this year […]

T-Mobile USA announced Sept. 29 it will begin selling Motorola’s Cliq slider smartphone Oct. 19 to existing customers, with sales to the general public starting Nov. 4. T-Mobile put a $199 price-with a two-year contract-on Motorola’s first phone based on Google’s Android operating system.Motorola’s first foray with Android features a 3.1-inch full touch screen with […]