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• More AT&T customers switch to paying for their phones

  A majority of AT&T's new smartphone customers are now choosing a plan where they pay for their phones over time, helping to drive strong second-quarter financial results, the carrier said.

• Small cell device tech set to connect workplace Wi-Fi with 3G and LTE

  Cisco says small cell technology is primed for explosive growth as it plans to connect 3G and LTE cellular networks to Wi-Fi access points that are already widely deployed in many enterprise facilities.

• Highs and lows of CEO pay

  This year's proxy season has come to a close, and after digging through regulatory filings, 10 highlights stand out in our analysis of 62 tech CEOs' compensation.

• Standalone wearables coming this year, AT&T executive says

  The most successful wearable devices will be ones that can work without a phone, and AT&T will have at least one of them by the end of this year, the man who manages the carrier's partnerships said.

• Mobile payments upstart Isis rebrands to distance itself from extremist group

  Isis, a mobile payments service that has struggled to gain traction despite the backing of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, is now working toward a new name to avoid association with the Sunni militant group formerly known as ISIS.

• Most ISPs don't deliver on their advertised broadband speeds

  An ongoing nationwide performance study of broadband service in the U.S. shows broadband speeds don't measure up to advertised rates.

• Microsoft promises Windows Phone 'kill-switch' by July 2015

  Microsoft today spelled out the "kill-switch" deterrents it will add to the Windows Phone mobile operating system, and said it would meet a July 2015 deadline for making stolen smartphones useless.

• Apple won't lose sleep over Amazon's Fire Phone

  No one at Apple's headquarters will be losing sleep over whether the new Amazon Fire will snatch market share from the iPhone, analysts said.

• Cisco buys its way into AT&T SDN

  Cisco has announced vendor network service orchestration systems for traditional and virtualized networks, and one of the vendors AT&T selected for its Domain 2.0 SDN/NFV project.

• FCC looking into Internet peering complaints from Netflix, consumers

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is looking into complaints from Netflix and some Internet backbone providers that several large broadband providers have been refusing for years to upgrade their backbone connections as a way to slow video traffic that competes with their own services.

• AT&T backs Microsoft's dispute over warrant for emails held abroad

  AT&T is backing Microsoft in its challenge of a U.S. search warrant for private email communications located in a facility in Dublin, Ireland.

• AT&T wants to improve payment card fraud prevention with phone geolocation

  AT&T plans to test a service allowing payment card providers to access the location of a customer's phone to improve the accuracy of fraud prevention systems for transactions made abroad.

• Asus PadFone X orders start June 6 from AT&T

  The newest smartphone and tablet docking station combo from Asus, the PadFone X, can be ordered starting June 6 exclusively from AT&T stores and at its website, the carrier announced Wednesday.

• AT&T wants cool apps from open-source developers

  AT&T wants to tap the open-source community to develop cool applications for connected wearables, mobile devices, home appliances and cars.

• AT&T hacker wants government to pay him $13M

  Andrew 'weev' Auernheimer, whose struggles with U.S. prosecutors have fueled calls for reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, wants the government to pay him $13 million for imprisoning him for the past three years.