Broadband Surf Report: Jan. 6

On the twelfth day of Christmas, at least one editor a'leaping brings you our morning survey of broadband and wireless news. Partridges and pear trees not included.

Anti-piracy patents for cell phones pooled--eWeek

Alltel nears deal to acquire Western Wireless--The Wall Street Journal (subscription site)

Samsung talks up speech-to-text phone--TechNewsWorld

Vendor Claims It Is Developing Mobile WiMAX System--Mobile Pipeline

Broadcom secures WLANs in one push of a button--Infoworld

DoCoMo to spearhead Super 3G rollout--Infoworld

Toshiba Ships Tiny 2GB Hard Drive For Mobile Devices--Mobile Pipeline

Moto leans on HSDPA--Unstrung

VOIP keeps fueling cable growth--Light Reading

Wi-Fi-enabled digital camera--via a Slashdot post

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