How to save on mobile plans: Your guide to 17 no-contract carriers

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Computerworld Mobile/Wireless Computing Jan 22, 2016 How to save on mobile plans: Your guide to 17 no-contract carriers The old two-year-contract business model for mobile phone plans is all but abandoned, and there are more choices than ever: We look at 17 alternate mobile service carriers. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • How I use Android: Android Power author JR Raphael • Verizon jumps into sponsored data, joining AT&T • Windows Phone can now work on smartphones with Intel's x86 chips • Verizon vows to build the first 5G network in the US • AT&T's latest business discount is a 2-for-1 smartphone deal • The Internet of Very Cold Things: Sigfox extends its low-power radio network to Antarctica • Privacy-conscious users rejoice: You can now use Facebook's Android app over Tor • Lightweight traveling at CES, take two • Google creates fix for zero-day kernel flaw, says effect on Android is exaggerated Case Study: Unidesk CIO: How We're Doing VDI For 50% Less Than PCs The CIO at one of Oregon's largest community colleges explains how they are replacing outdated desktops with VDI - for 50% less than buying new physical PCs. Read More ▶ How I use Android: Android Power author JR Raphael Time for yours truly to take a turn at the challenge. An up-close tour of my own personal Android setup, including my obsessively organized home screens. Read More ▶ Verizon jumps into sponsored data, joining AT&T Verizon announced a sponsored data service on Tuesday called FreeBee Data, which offers mobile users toll-free data either via gigabytes or on a per-click basis. Read More ▶ Windows Phone can now work on smartphones with Intel's x86 chips The Windows 10 Mobile OS -- popularly known as Windows Phone -- is now compatible with smartphones based on x86 chips, according to Microsoft. Read More ▶ Verizon vows to build the first 5G network in the US Verizon says it will have the first 5G network in the U.S., a promise it probably can't fulfill until 2020 but will start working at this year. Read More ▶ AT&T's latest business discount is a 2-for-1 smartphone deal AT&T announced aggressive discounts on new smartphones and devices, including a 2-for-1 smartphone offer for business customers. Read More ▶ The Internet of Very Cold Things: Sigfox extends its low-power radio network to Antarctica Sigfox, operator of a low-power wide-area radio network for the Internet of Things, expects to be connecting objects on every continent by year-end, and has just checked off the most challenging of those: Antarctica. Read More ▶ Privacy-conscious users rejoice: You can now use Facebook's Android app over Tor Facebook has added the option to route traffic from its Android mobile app over the Tor anonymity network. Read More ▶ Lightweight traveling at CES, take two When you're attending a trade show, weight matters -- but getting your work done matters more. Read More ▶ Google creates fix for zero-day kernel flaw, says effect on Android is exaggerated Google has developed a patch for a recently reported vulnerability in the Linux kernel and shared it with Android manufacturers. Read More ▶ White Paper: Lookout Mobile Security IDG Whitepaper: IT Leaders Buying into Mobile Security This whitepaper lays out the landscape on potential threats, how the mobile ecosystem is changing, and what security investment looks like from here out. Read More ▶ IT Careers 2016: What's important to IT professionals? Check out our January Digital Magazine, which features results from Computerworld's IT Careers 2016 survey. We polled more than 200 IT professionals to learn their top concerns, what's most important to them in their jobs and what would entice them to switch jobs. The magazine also includes News Analysis, Opinions and Shark Tank -- all free for download with registration. View the magazine here ▶ Subscribe to Computerworld Daily News Sign up for our popular, twice-daily tech news newsletter. You'll get Computerworld's up-to-the-minute top stories of the day, both first thing in the morning and late in the afternoon (ET). We deliver breaking news on topics like the latest security threats and the newest mobile devices, in-depth features about enterprise technologies and IT careers, and authoritative analyses of moves made by tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, IBM and HP. Sign up now ▶ Computerworld Job Board Search multiple listings now and get new job alerts as they are posted. Check them out now ▶

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