Verizon buys Alltel in $28.1 billion blockbuster (Network World)

Apparently tired of being the second-largest U.S. wireless carrier, Verizon Wireless has finalized a deal that will vault it past AT&T and net it millions of new wireless subscribers.

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They say it got smart: a 2008 review of the PS3 (Ars Technica)

No system has changed more since launch than the PlayStation 3, and it's time to take another look at what Sony's console can do. Ars Technica re-reviews the PlayStation 3.

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