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• With Verizon pushing more into data caps, Sprint touts unlimited option

  If you're a Verizon customer upset that your next smartphone contract won't include unlimited data, Sprint would like to remind you that you have an alternative.

• Verizon not launching voice over LTE anytime soon

  NEW ORLEANS -- Verizon may be heavily promoting LTE for data, but that doesn't mean it's going to start pushing it for voice services anytime soon.

• Gartner: Multi-device wireless plans on the way

  The days of having to pay for two separate data plans for your smartphone and tablet may soon be at an end, says Gartner analyst Hughes De La Vergne.

• Verizon promoting LTE as home broadband alternative

  If you've ever dreamed of using Verizon's LTE network as your home broadband connection, now you can.

• Verizon offers to sell some 700MHz spectrum in olive branch to government

  In an effort to save its spectrum deal with major cable companies, Verizon Wednesday said it would be willing to sell off several licenses for spectrum on the 700MHz band.

• New Verizon service brings LTE to private IP networks

  Verizon Business is now offering its customers the ability to have their LTE devices route traffic directly to their private IP networks instead of through the public Internet.

• Terremark launches private cloud edition

  Some enterprise customers just aren't comfortable throwing their data into a public cloud environment, says Ellen Rubin, vice president of cloud products for Terremark, which is owned by Verizon.

• Broadband infrastructure: Time for real policy

  I'm late filing this column. Why? It's my AT&T U-Verse DSL connection again. Make that "yet again." I've been struggling with it all day.

• 7 simple steps for thwarting hactivists

  More data was stolen from corporate networks last year by hactivists than by cybercriminals, according to a new report from Verizon.

• Biggest threat to corporate nets in 2011? Hactivists, not cybercriminals

  Hactivists - not cybercriminals - were responsible for the majority of personal data stolen from corporate and government networks during 2011, according to a new report from Verizon.

• New Verizon CEO got $16 million pay raise in 2011

  Verizon chief Lowell McAdam saw his compensation more than triple after being named CEO last August.

• Coming Soon: More Cross-Platform App Stores?

  Even as Microsoft shuts down its Windows Mobile app store, chances are consumers are going to see more cross-platform app store options in the future, according to Shira Levine, directing analyst at Campbell, Calif.-based research firm Infonetics.

• The new iPad: A roundup of post-release news

  To help you filter through all of the iPad-related headlines floating around the tech press today, we've created a compilation that will keep you up-to-date on the latest developments:

• FCC asks Verizon for more data on plans to use acquired spectrum

  The Federal Communications Commission today asked Verizon to deliver a wide range of information on its spectrum holdings and its attempts to buy spectrum licenses from major cable companies.

• Sprint, T-Mobile tell FCC to put brakes on Verizon spectrum deal

  Verizon's proposed spectrum deal with major cable companies came under more criticism today as a broad range of companies and public interest groups asked the Federal Communications Commission to halt proceedings on the deal.