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Mobile Minutes: In-flight Wi-Fi, Amazon, Nashua Mobile, mobile hunting permits, Google

Faster Wi-Fi on flights leads to battle in the sky
Wi-Fi in the sky is taking off, promising much better connections for travelers and a bonanza for the companies that sell the systems.
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Is the Amazon phone about mobile payments?
Bloomberg?s David Kirkpatrick discusses reports of Amazon entering the smartphone market and what it could mean for online retail sales and payments on Bloomberg Television?s ?Bloomberg Surveillance.?
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MTN, Vodacom to buy Nashua Mobile users for $215 Million
 South Africa?s Vodacom Group Ltd. (VOD) and MTN Group Ltd. (MTN) agreed to buy mobile-phone subscribers from Nashua Mobile (Pty) Ltd. for 2.26 billion rand ($215 million), ahead of a possible winding up of the service provider.
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Permits available on mobile devices
 Some Nebraska hunting and fishing permits now may be purchased, accessed or displayed on a mobile device.The image of a mobile permit may be displayed and saved on a device such as a phone or tablet. The mobile permit fulfills the requirement of carrying a permit while eliminating the need to carry a paper version.
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Google buys drone maker Titan Aerospace
Google Inc. said Monday it agreed to buy Titan Aerospace, a startup maker of high-altitude drones, as the Internet search giant adds more aerial technology to collect images and get more of the world's population online.
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