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Verizon is another carrier that has now made available the BlackBerry Curve 8530 smartphone which won't make heads turn as it goes about its job quietly, helping you check your emails and messages while replying with aplomb. Just in case you're curious to know what the Curve 8530 holds, it comes with a 2.5? display, a 2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi connectivity, GPS navigation, 256MB of flash memory, a new optical trackpad, Bluetooth connectivity, a microSD memory card slot and a 3.5mm headphone jack. You can  

About 300 customers remain without home telephone service in Joffre, Washington County. Verizon and Smith Township police say the problem is the result of thieves stealing copper from telephone wires. At one point, as many as 500 homes didn't have landline phone service.  

Verizon's iPhone-rival Motorola Droid has been out for only a few weeks and it's already seeing price cuts from some retailers. Verizon is still selling the phone for $200, but Amazon.com has a new Droid with contract for $150. Dell is taking the aggressive stance and offering the Droid for $120 .  

Great news for all of the Verizon Wireless subscribers out there! The BlackBerry Curve 8530 has officially gone on the market on Verizon's website today — and boy does it look great! You'll get a 2.5″ display, Wi-Fi, optical trackpad, GPS, and most importantly: a full QWERTY keypad — something I long for now more than ever in dealing with the BlackBerry Storm and something all BlackBerry users should appreciate.  

Syracuse residents say they want more public access television channels for community and educational use, and continued availability of high-tech cable options. Those were some of the findings of a series of public focus groups held last week on Syracuse's upcoming cable television franchise negotiations, said Sue Buske, president of the Buske Group, a consulting firm that led the group sessions for the city. "People made it clear they want more options for providing information to the community," Bu  

West Virginia's public utility consumer agency wants the state to reject Stamford-based Frontier Communications' plan to purchase more than 600,000 telephone access lines from Verizon. The Public Service Commission's Consumer Advocate Division said this week that Frontier doesn't have the financial resources to fix Verizon's "sub-standard" landline network, which has suffered from years of neglect in West Virginia. "We've got lots of issues with this," said Byron Harris, who directs the consumer offic

We've got lots of issues with this   -Byron Harris

 

Verizon Wireless will open its second "evolution" communications store tomorrow at Kona's Lanihau Center. The newly remodeled store is double the size of the previous store at that location and offers consumers hands-on interaction with wireless voice, data, music and video services. A traditional Hawaiian blessing ceremony and lei untying with Kahu Henry Kahananui is scheduled.  

On Thursday, I was able to spend some time with the Casio G'zOne Rock, a rugged feature phone that could appeal to adventurers or simply people who break their phones often. The G'zOne Rock is a successor to the G'zOne Boulder , which we liked for its ruggedness but not its muddy voice quality. Verizon says the phone is resistant to water, shock, dust, vibration, humidity, salt fog, solar radiation, altitude, and high and low temperature.  

Delaware Park is the first of the Olmsted Parks to offer Wi-Fi service thanks to a $20,000 grant from Verizon. The Olmsted system is moving into the 21st century with the new Wi-Fi service. People will be able to enjoy the park, bring their computers and connect to the rest of the world.