A new feature for Facebook's Messenger app lets you add audio to your text-based conversations — but if an additional testing phase of the app goes worldwide, it could let everyone replace their phone bills with Facebook calls over the Internet, for free.
Capitalizing on all the information we put into our cell phones, Verizon Wireless is selling all our app usage and location information to marketers, reports CNET's Declan McCullagh.
Though at least a few people are giving up their cell phones as a cost-cutting measure, it can be quite a luxurious state of being.
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Republic Wireless is unveiling a super-duper cheap, $19-a-month, no-contract, unlimited-talk, data-and-text cell phone plan meant to "disrupt" the mobile market. Good luck with that.
Apple is selling iPhones without wireless contracts.
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