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Sprint Nextel Corp. is in talks to use new Alcatel-Lucent telecommunications gear designed to help wireless networks handle more calls. The discussions reflect the industry’s race to avert a capacity crunch for mobile service.
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In 1992, Todd Pedersen was passed over for what he considered the perfect summer job: selling pest-control services door-to-door in Sacramento, Calif. Some of his college buddies had pulled in $10,000 doing it the previous summer, while Pedersen was making about half that much hanging sheetrock. Pedersen, then a 23-year-old Brigham Young University student who had spent countless afternoons knocking on strangers’ doors as a missionary for the Mormon Church, ended up earning $82,000 working for a rival pest business that summer. “[The recruiter] didn’t think I had what it took to do it, which is odd because I’m from Idaho and Idahoans can do anything,” he says.
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Google Inc., owner of the most-used Web search engine, is teaming up with Intel Corp. to get its software onto televisions in a bid to succeed where rival Apple Inc. has struggled.
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Google Inc.’s Android operating system passed Apple Inc.’s iOS as the most popular software platform for application downloads as consumers bought more Android smartphones.
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U.S. states probing foreclosure practices revised a nationwide settlement proposal after banks and eight Republican attorneys general objected to mortgage loan principal cuts, two people familiar with the talks said.
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Qualcomm Inc ., the biggest maker of mobile-phone chips, is betting that cereal boxes, washing machines and children’s books will help drive demand for powerful processors for mobile devices.
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Microsoft Corp. will start selling its Kin mobile phones online tomorrow with Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, as the software company tries to take back ground in the fast-growing smartphone market.
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Microsoft Corp. is paying developers to build mobile applications for its Windows Phone 7 system to help it narrow a lead by rival products from Apple Inc. and Google Inc.
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Cablevision Systems Corp. , the fifth-largest U.S. cable operator, agreed to buy Bresnan Communications Co. from Providence Equity Partners Inc. for $1.37 billion to expand in the western U.S.
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ViVOtech Inc., a maker of in-store payment systems, is planning an initial public offering for as early as 2012, Chief Executive Officer Mick Mullagh said.
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