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Consumers’ growing love affair with watching video on smartphones and tablets is at the heart of Verizon’s (VZ) $4.4 billion acquisition of AOL (AOL).

That’s because AOL, even though it remains a top Web destination, developed online advertising technology Verizon can use across mobile and broadband services to compete with Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other Silicon Valley companies that are further ahead in the business.

“This is really about AOL’s advertising platform,” says Roger Entner, an

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Your two-year contract is finally up, and you want to save some money by bringing your phone to a carrier with lower monthly costs. Unfortunately, odds are that your phone is carrier locked, which prevents you from jumping ship and using your phone on another network. Thankfully, some carriers could already unlock your phone voluntarily, but the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, which was signed into law early last month, set the unlock requirement in stone.

Now

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Verizon and Motorola show off the latest lineup of Droid smartphones. (Eli Blumenthal, USA TODAY)
Motorola Mobility and Verizon Wireless refreshed the Droid lineup Tuesday with three new models headlined by the Droid Maxx.
That's the Android handset that the companies claim can last two full days (under "normal" use). The previous Droid Razr Maxx HD, which was also 9% thicker than the latest 8.5 mm Droid model, had enough stamina for 32 hours. Droid Maxx will costs $299 with the customary
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