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Verizon Wireless will sell the iPhone, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

Verizon Wireless is experiencing a boost in higher-margin wireless data subscribers thanks to a $10 limited data service it is offering, potentially encouraging the top U.S. operator to make such an offer more permanent.

T-Mobile USA plans to start doubling the speed of its high-speed wireless data network this year to 42 megabits per second, joining a race toward higher-speed networks to make its service competitive with Verizon Wireless'.

The companies that reported news on Wednesday after the market close are: Cisco Systems, CenturyLink, Qwest Communications, Delta Air Lines, Massey Energy, AMR, American Airlines, Ruby Tuesday, Resources Connection, Mindspeed Technologies, Quidel, Lacrosse Footwear, and Daqo New Energy.

A group of Verizon technicians is appealing a court decision that upheld the company's right to use global positioning system devices to track employees' whereabouts.

AT&T Inc plans to launch 20 phones with high-speed Web surfing this year including a phone from Motorola Inc.

Motion Computing has promised a battery life of eight hours in CL900 which takes two hours to charge, that is close to Apple iPad’s battery life which lasts up to ten hours.

The corporate news that impacted the market during Tuesday session are: General Motors, Ford Motor, Chrysler Group, Motorola, Motorola Mobility Holdings, Motorola Solutions, and Macy's. The companies that reported earnings news after the market close are: Sonic, AngioDynamics, Landec, Team, and Mosaic. The companies that reported guidance revision news after the market close are: Mattson Technology, and Trident Microsystems.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Exar, Banner, MannKind, LM Ericsson Telephone, ASML Holding, Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Baidu, and Citrix Systems.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Qiao Xing Universal Resources, Impax Laboratories, Magic Software Enterprises, Mercadolibre, L & L Energy, ON Semiconductor, Ceragon Networks, ChinaCache International Holdings, Melco Crown Entertainment, and F5 Networks.

For the past several months, we have been hearing this term known as “Net Neutrality”. What is it all about? Many people still aren’t exactly aware of this new jargon over which companies and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States are locking horns with each other.

U.S. stock index futures were little changed on Friday, the last trading day of the year, with the S&P on track for a yearly advance of nearly 13 percent and its best December performance in nearly two decades.

Wireless pioneer Craig McCaw, the chairman of Clearwire Corp, has decided to resign from his position effective December 31, the company said in a regulatory filing late Thursday.

More than one in five TVs shipped this year were in some way connected.

AT&T Inc. (T) said it is expanding its Wi-Fi access in New York around Times Square and introducing it in San Francisco, near the waterfront.

New research from iSuppli says the mobile communications industry will soon reach $250 billion.

China Tel will be putting $62 million into selling internet protocol telephony in Peru, via its subsidiary Perusat.

A recent survey from Zogby International says the majority of Americans think high-speed internet was the most impactful technological innovation of the last 10 years.

The Federal Communications Commission's decision to enforce net neutrality has already drawn fire from some in the telecommunications industry, and even supporters of the principle were not completely happy with the Commission's new rules.

Internet connectivity in Pakistan is as low as 10 percent but opportunities for growth are evident, a team of Google and YouTube officials who visited the country early this month said in a blog post.

Explaining net neutrality and what the five FCC commissioners personally said about the new rules and regulations.