Money Savers
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How to Buy the Right Light Bulb
We take you through the six things you need to know before buying your next bulb, including the wattage, shade of white, dimming capability, and fixture type.
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How to make LED bulbs last longer
Tired of LED bulbs burning out? If you want to make your LED bulbs last longer, here are three steps you can take to get the most out of your investment.
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How to Get the Best Deals on Amazon Prime Day
Amazon Prime Day offers some of the lowest prices of the year, but not every bargain is as good as it seems. Here's how to vet and score the best deals.
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The Best Tech Deals on Amazon Prime Day 2023
The sheer volume of tech products on sale on Amazon Prime Day can be overwhelming, so we've pulled together a vetted list that we will be updating throughout the sale.
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How to Find Cheap & Free eBooks
From selections of free books from major retailers to Netflix-like subscription ebook services, these are our favorite sources for cheap reads.
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How to Easily Find and Cancel Unwanted Subscriptions
Monitoring services analyze your credit card and bank account transactions for recurring subscription charges, flag them for you, and even cancel them.
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How to Use a Mastercard, Visa or Amex Gift Card on Amazon
Trying to use a Mastercard, Visa or Amex Gift Card on Amazon can be a headache. But these tricks that will make using your gift cards on Amazon a breeze.
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3 Ways to Get Free Amazon Shipping Without Prime
Amazon Prime members get free shipping all the time, but these tips show how everyone else can get free shipping, too.
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The Best Tech Deals on Amazon Prime Day Fall 2022
The volume of tech products on sale on Prime Day can be overwhelming, so we've pulled together a vetted list that we will be updating throughout the 2-day sale.
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How to Sell Your iPhone for the Most Money
Take your iPhone to a retail store for an instant trade-in, or sell it online if you don't need the cash immediately. We compare the major players.
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8 Gadgets that Help You Save Energy
We've gathered eight devices that will help you keep your consumption of energy down and ensure you keep spending under control.
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Our Favorite eCard Sites
Customize your own greeting card and send it digitally, print it at home or have it printed and mailed with these unique sites.
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CamelCamelCamel and 3 Other Amazon Price Trackers that Will Save You a Fortune
CamelCamelCamel is an invaluable tool to see price history. And when used with these 3 other pricing tools, you're sure to get the absolute best price on the things you love.
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9 Ways to Save While Shopping on Amazon
Check out these 9 tips to ensure you're getting the best deals while shopping on Amazon.
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Jamf Now Brings Enterprise-Level Mobile Device Management to Small Business
Jamf Now is the easy, low-cost way to keep all of your company's Apple devices up to date with the latest software and apps—no IT department required.
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The Best Amazon Price History Tracker
If you want to get the best deal online, you have to do more than just comparison shop. Tracking price history lets you save by buying when prices are lowest.
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Fleeceware Subscription Scams Can Cost You a Bundle
Fleeceware apps trick you into expensive subscriptions that can cost you a bundle — but with these tips, you can avoid these App Store and Google Play scams.
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Stop Using Registry Cleaners and Disk Cleaners - They Don't Work
If you’re using a registry or disk cleaner, you should stop now. You’re wasting your money and putting yourself at risk for catastrophic system problems.
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These Ink Tank Printers Could Save You Hundreds on Printer Cartridges
Stop paying $30 for a printer cartridge that only prints a few hundred pages. These printers with refillable ink tanks can print thousands of pages at a fraction of the cost.
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The Best TV under $500
When you want a big screen TV but you're on a budget, this TV gives you the most bang for your buck.
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How to Snag the Best Sales on Amazon Prime Day
There are plenty of deals to be had on Amazon's 36-hour sale, but it takes some work — and pre-planning — to get the best bargains. We show you how.
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Get Great Discounts at Whole Foods with Amazon Prime
Your Amazon Prime membership now has a new perk: grocery bargains.
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9 Apps That Pay You Real Money
These 9 apps pay you real-world cash for unlocking your phone, watching ads, searching online, walking the local mall and more.
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5 Tech Products Under $50 Everyone Should Own
Products don't need to be expensive to enhance your quality of life.
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4 Products That Will Save You Hundreds on Your Utility Bills
If you're looking to save money, your home utility bills is a good place to start. Smart upgrades to your lighting and thermostat can save you hundreds.
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The Best Sites for Booking Last-Minute Travel
Last minute trips can be a good kind of adventure if you have the tools to find the best deals. Here are our top picks.
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How to Take Free Courses from Top Universities
Some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the U.S. offer free webcasts and online courses that you can take in your own free time.
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The Best Online Invitation Sites
Send out stylish evites for your next event with our top picks for best online invitation sites.
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Which Carrier Has the Best Family Smartphone Plan?
Confused by all the smartphone family plans available? Techlicious breaks down the best and least expensive options for your unique needs.
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How to Sell Your Android Phone for the Most Money
Take your Android phone to a store for instant cash or gift card, or sell it online if you don't need immediate cash. We compare the major players.
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Your Android Phone's Pattern Lock Is Easy to Guess
New software can analyze video of you unlocking your phone — without a view of your screen — and guess your pattern lock within 5 tries.
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6 Ways to Save Money Shopping on Amazon
Not everything that appears to be a great deal on Amazon is. Use these tips to save the most money when navigating the virtual aisles on Amazon.
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How to Get the Best Financing on a New Car
Getting the absolute best price and the best financing could easily save you thousands of dollars over the life of your vehicle.
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Amazon Prime Members Get More Free Books
Now Prime subscribers can read over a thousand books, plus magazines and comics, for no additional charge.
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Which Carrier Has the Best Smartphone Plan?
Techlicious has compared the best prepaid and postpaid individual plans of all major U.S. carriers to find out which offers you the best deal.
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The Best Inexpensive DIY Home Security Systems
There's no need to break the bank on a home security system — these high-tech DIY home security options can save you thousands.
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How to Get a Deal on the Hottest Concert Tickets
We'll walk you through how to get tickets to the concerts you want to see — and save some cash while you’re at it.
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The Pros and Cons of Cutting the Cable Cord in 2016
Can you get the TV, movies and sports you love without a hefty monthly cable bill? We'll you figure out if cutting the cord is right for you.
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The Best Coupon Apps & Sites
Whether you like to print out coupons before you go shopping or load directly onto your smartphone, we have best places to find coupons online.
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7 Ways to Save Energy (and Money)
Outfitting your home to be smart and eco-friendly doesn't have to cost a ton upfront, and these self-install products will save you money over time.
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Choosing the Best Place to Buy a New TV
Buying a TV is expensive, and there is nothing worse than knowing you got a bad deal. So is buying online the best choice?
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How to Sell Your Phone for the Most Money
Take your smartphone to a retail store for an instant trade-in, or sell it online if you don't need the cash immediately. We compare the major players.
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How to Buy a Light Bulb
New federal energy standards mean the bulbs on store shelves are changing—here's what you need to know.
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Where to Get the Best Deals Shopping Online for Groceries
We compare Jet, Boxed, Sams's Club and Amazon head-to-head to see which site offers you the biggest bang for your grocery buck.
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Announcing the Launch of the Techlicious Store
Check out our new Techlicious store, with hundreds of products that are fun, educational and will make your life more convenient.
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The Best Sites for Designing Holiday Cards
Take the hassle out of designing and mailing holiday greeting cards by using one of these helpful online sites that do the work for you.
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How to Make and Receive Free Phone Calls on Your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch
Out of minutes? Google's recently updated Google Hangouts app lets you make calls to and receive calls from any number in the U.S. or Canada for free.
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Amazon Discounting Prime Memberships to $67 for 1 Day Only
To celebrate its Emmy win for Transparent, Amazon is lowering the price of an Amazon Prime membership by $32 this Friday.
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Google's Project Sunroof Tells You Whether it Pays to Go Solar
Project Sunroof creates a 3D model of your roof via Google Maps and calculates the sunshine it gets to see if installing solar is right for you.
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No-Commission Stock Trading App Robinhood Comes to Android
No-commission brokerage firm Robinhood offers Android owners unlimited free stock trades on U.S. markets with no minimum balance requirement.
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AT&T and DIRECTV Offer $200 Family Wireless + TV Bundle
AT&T now offers a 4-person, 10 GB family wireless plan with 4 HD DIRECTV receivers and DVR service bundle for $200 per month.
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Cable Customers that Complain to FCC Are Getting Discounts
ISPs are responding to Net Neutrality unfair billing practices complaints filed by customers with offers of service discounts.
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Ford Pilot Program Lets You Rent Your Car Out For a Lower Payment
The new car-sharing program from Ford Motor Credit and Getaround could earn you enough money to retire your car payment for good.
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ASUS ZenFone 2: Powerful Features, Low Price
The brushed metal 5.5" Android L ASUS ZenFone 2 with PixelMaster and BoostMaster technology will go on sale here in the U.S. this week starting at $199.
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How Much Your Devices Are Costing You When They're Off
The average U.S. home wastes $165 per year on always-on electricity costs, but there are simple steps you can take to save.
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Google Introduces 'Project Fi', a New Low-Cost Cell Provider
Project Fi uses both your home Wi-Fi network and the Sprint/T-Mobile networks to route calls and data, and charges you only for the data you use.
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Verizon FiOS TV Launching Customizable Cable Packages
Starting on April 19, Verizon FiOS TV customers can choose from themed skinny bundles that can be swapped from month to month.
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T-Mobile Promises to Lock In Promotional Pricing for Life
T-Mobile is now promising to pay off your remaining phone installment plan payments and lock in your Simple Choice plan rate for life.
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Study: Wearable Fitness Trackers No More Accurate than Your Smartphone
You can more accurately track your daily steps by keeping a smartphone in your pocket than by wearing a dedicated fitness tracker, the study shows.
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Apple Adds a 'Free on iTunes' Section for Songs and TV Shows
You can once again download a varied selection of free music and free TV shows on iTunes, including shows from FOX, TBS, Disney, HGTV and more.
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Gadgets that Help You Save Energy
Save money and the planet with gadgets that keep the power drain to a minimum and teach you better energy habits.
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Virgin Mobile Intros a Prepaid Data Share Plan
Virgin Mobile Data Done Right plans, starting at $65/mo for 2 lines, allow you to share prepaid 4G LTE data between all phone lines in your family.
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T-Mobile Introduces New Plan to Rollover Unused Data
Data Stash allows postpaid T-Mobile customers who have purchased extra data the ability to rollover unused data for up to a year.
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Verizon FiOS Offering $59 Internet Bundle for Cord Cutters
New Verizon FiOS customers can get a Showtime, HBO, local channels, a free year of Netflix and 50 Mbps broadband for $59.99 per month.
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Twitter Launches Offers, a New Way to Save Money
Twitter Offers allows you to save rebates and coupons on the social network to your payment card for easy redemption.
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T-Mobile Offering Unlimited International Calls for $5
The new Stateside International Talk plan offers unlimited calls to landlines in 70 countries for $5 per account.
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B&N Sync Up! Turns Paperbacks into E-books for $4.99
Barnes & Noble's limited-time Sync Up! offer lets you buy the digital version of an eligible purchased paperback for $4.99 more.
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Amazon Fire TV Stick: Just $19 for Prime Members
Amazon's new Fire TV Stick streaming media device will turn any TV smart for just $39 — $19 for Amazon Prime members for a limited time.
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AT&T Offering Internet, HBO and Amazon Prime Bundled for $39 per Month
AT&T's latest U-verse home Internet bundle offers prospective cord-cutters 45Mbps Internet, access to HBO Go and Amazon Prime for just $39/month.
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HP Intros $199 Stream 11 Windows Laptop
Hewlett Packard's HP Stream 11 laptop offers a dual-core Intel Celeron, Windows 8.1 experience for just $199 to start.
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Toshiba's 7" Encore Mini: A $119 Tablet
Toshiba's latest Windows 8.1 tablet offers a quad-core Intel chip, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage for just $119.
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BitTorrent Sync 1.4: A Free Alternative to Cloud Sharing
BitTorrent Sync 1.4 is an easy way to share files with family without the file size restrictions and fees of cloud storage sites.
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ZTE Warp Sync: A Powerful Prepaid Smartphone on a Budget
Boost Mobile's ZTE Warp Sync offers a quad-core processor, a 5" HD Gorilla Glass display and Android 4.4.2 KitKat, all for under $200.
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T-Mobile's New Prepaid Plan Starts at Just $3 Per Month
T-Mobile's new Pay as You Go plan offers minutes of talk and texts at a flat rate of 10 cents each, with a $3 monthly minimum.
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Virgin Mobile Custom: A Pay-For-What-You-Use Phone Plan
The Virgin Mobile Custom phone plan allows you to personalize talk, text and data allotments so you only pay for what you use, and nothing more.
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Comcast: Free Service, Debt Forgiveness for Low Income Families
Comcast's Internet Essentials program offers low-income families debt forgiveness, 6 months of free Internet service, and a $9.99 monthly rate.
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Credit Karma Expands to Offer Free Credit Reports
Credit Karma, the site behind the TV ads promising free credit scores, now offers customers free credit reports as well.
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5 Cash-Saving Tech Tools
These apps and websites will keep more of your money where it belongs: in your wallet.
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Verizon Now Offering 4G LTE Speeds on its Prepaid Plans
Verizon's ALLSET prepaid phone plans will begin offering 4G LTE speeds to enabled devices beginning July 17.
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Comcast's XFinity Public Wifi Raising its Customers' Electric Bills
A setting in Comcast routers that saves a portion of your home internet connect for public use could be raising your electricity bills.
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GE Link, a $15 Smart Light Bulb
GE's Link light bulb, a connected home light controllable from your smartphone, goes on pre-order Monday for $15 each.
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NYC and Chicago Libraries to Lend Wi-Fi Hotspots
Public libraries in New York and Chicago have won a combined $900,000 Knight Foundation grant to lend Wi-Fi hotspots to low income residents.
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Where to Find Free and Cheap E-Books
From collections of public domain titles to Netflix-like subscription e-book services, these are our favorite sources for cheap summer reads.
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Stash Helps You Find the Best Deals on Beauty Products
Stash constantly searches for the lowest prices on your favorite products, helping you get the lowest price.
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Update: Rideshare Company Uber Introduces Family-Oriented Service
Rideshare company and taxi competitor Uber will has introduced uberFamily, a new rideshare service that guarantees car seat availability.
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'Amazon Prime Pantry' Service Delivers 45 lbs. of Groceries for $6
Amazon Prime Pantry is a new grocery delivery service that offers normal sizes of popular supermarket items, often at hefty discounts.
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Apple Now Accepting iPads for Trade-in
Apple announced that it will begin accepting iPad tablets in exchange for storewide credit as part of its expanded Reuse & Recycling program.
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AT&T Prepaid GoPhone Plans Get More Data, Hotspot Capability
AT&T is increasing the data allowances on its $40 and $60 prepaid GoPhone plans and letting you use your smartphone as a mobile hotspot.
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Credit Sesame Offers Free Identity Theft Protection
Personal finance app Credit Sesame now offers free identity theft protection in addition to free credit scores and free credit monitoring.
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5 Worst Apps to Download
Download the wrong app and you could be inundated with ads, infected with malware or scammed out of your money. Here are the apps you should avoid.
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Aros Smart Window Air Conditioner is Powered by Your Smartphone
Quirky and GE have introduced Aros, a smartphone-controlled, WiFi-connected smart window air conditioner that learns about your habits and home.
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Which Carrier Has the Cheapest Cell Phone Plan
Techlicious surveyed major and regional cell phone carriers to find the least expensive smartphone data plans for individuals and families currently available.
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10 Apps & Sites that Will Save You Money
These sites and apps range from traditional coupon sites to rebate listings to apps that will pay you to shop.
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HTC Offering Limited Free Screen Replacements
The HTC Advantage program offers HTC One owners a one-time free screen replacement for accidents that happen within the first 6 months.
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Are Verizon's New 'MORE Everything' Plans Worth It?
Verizon's new MORE Everything plans offers more data and small discounts, but customers should look closely at the new deals.
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T-Mobile Offering Smartphone Banking Services
Carrier T-Mobile announced it now offers banking services to its customers, including a prepaid Visa, direct deposit and check deposit by phone.
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AT&T Letting Users Break Contracts
Existing AT&T customers are being offered the chance to break contract early, but only if you're willing to join a subsidy-free AT&T Next plan.
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Which Cell Phone Carrier is the Least Expensive?
A study by Cowen and Company shows that Verizon was the most expensive cell carrier in Q4 2013, edging out Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile.
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Chrome Browser Update Offers New Parental Controls, Cost Savings
Google released updates to the mobile and desktop versions of the Chrome web browser, offering new Supervised Users and Reduce Data Usage settings.
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T-Mobile Wants to Pay Your Early Termination Fees
T-Mobile CEO John Legere announced at CES 2014 that his company would offer Verizon, AT&T and Sprint customers up to $650 per line to switch.