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2010/10/01

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U.S. Cellular Joins Mobile Loyalty Galore

On Oct. 1, the U.S.'s sixth-largest wireless service provider will start giving bonuses to loyal customers in hopes of making them stay with the service longer—and of even luring consumers away from rivals.

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Welcome to the Tech Insider!

This week, we look at how the U.S.'s sixth-largest wireless service provider—U.S. Cellular—will start giving bonuses to loyal customers in hopes of making them stay with the service longer—and of even luring consumers away from rivals. We also look at how Apple is threatening the search giants' mobile ad shares

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Apple Threatens Search Giants' Mobile Ad Shares
Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! have swiftly lost share in the U.S. mobile advertising market to Apple's new iAd. Independent rivals such as Jumptap and Millennial Media are gaining, too

TECHNOLOGY
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ARTIFICIAL_INTELLIGENCE
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ANALYST PICKS & PANS
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Making Maps Work When Disaster Strikes
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CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY
The Do-Good Imperative
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SPECIAL REPORT
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SUSTAINABLE TECH
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TECH HOMELAND SECURITY
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TECH PIONEERS
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The World Economic Forum has bestowed the coveted honor on 39 companies, which could become the Googles, a previous winner, of tomorrow

BEST OF THE WEB
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Move over, MySpace. Online players from media giant Viacom to auctioneer eBay are adding networking features for their users

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT
Selling Computers to India
With growth slowing in China, computer makers hope Asia's other big market will pick up the slack

SPECIAL REPORT
The Power of Gaming
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SPECIAL REPORT
The Future of Social Networking
A rising tide of companies are tapping Semantic Web technologies to unearth hard-to-find connections between disparate pieces of online data

VIRTUAL LIFE
The Coming Virtual Web
In the future, the Internet is almost certain to look more realistic, interactive, and social—a lot like a virtual world

SPECIAL REPORT
Wireless World
Ultrafast networks and whizzy features are about to turn your cellphone into—well, your right arm

NEXT-GEN GAME CONSOLES
Game Definitely Not Over
On the eve of the launch of PS3 and Wii, stakes in the console tussle amid Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft have never been higher

CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY
Taming the World Wide Web
A rising tide of companies are tapping Semantic Web technologies to unearth hard-to-find connections between disparate pieces of online data



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