T-Mobile fined $40 million for faking ringtones and failing calls in rural areas
T-Mobile will pay the US Treasury $40 million to settle a dispute with the FCC over failed calls and faked ringtones for rural areas. The …
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Sprint is giving away a month of unlimited prepaid service – so now T-Mobile is giving away 2 months
Sprint just can’t seem to catch a break these days. The company recently came up with a nifty idea to try to bring in new …
Samsung slapped with monster $2.8 billion lawsuit for allegedly stealing biometric tech
The big names in any industry always have bullseyes on their backs, and the consumers electronics industry is obviously no different. Companies are constantly slapping …
An AT&T-Time Warner merger would cost consumers $571 million every single year
The US Department of Justice and AT&T are currently slugging it out in court over whether or not the cable giant should be allowed to …
Tesla and the NTSB are in a serious fight over the fatal Tesla Autopilot crash
In the space of a week, Tesla and the National Transportation Safety Board have gone from cooperating on the investigation of last month’s fatal Tesla …
Facebook is the least-trusted tech company by a country mile
While Mark Zuckerberg spent all day yesterday answering awkward questions about Facebook from his booster seat, Recode published a new poll showing which tech companies are trusted …
Apple ordered to pay half a billion dollars in damages to a patent troll
As the Honorable Judge Chamberlain Haller famously said, “win some lose some.” Apple emerged victorious over Samsung after it took the South Korean consumer tech giant …
Top 5 takeaways from day 1 of Mark Zuckerberg’s Senate testimony
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday appeared before Congress for day one of a two-day grilling from United States Senators. Some Senators were more friendly than …
The nightmare Sprint-T-Mobile merger could be back on
Less than six months after Sprint and T-Mobile ended talks about merging the two wireless networks, the Wall Street Journal reports that the deal could be back …
You’re what’s wrong with Facebook
These lines jumped out at me from CNN reporter Dylan Byers’s “Pacific” email newsletter, focused on tech and innovation, in the edition sent out the …
AT&T exec called broadcasters ‘shortsighted whores’ for selling to streaming services
The ongoing legal battle between AT&T and the Department of Justice over whether AT&T can acquire Time Warner is giving us a unique insight into …
CenturyLink’s latest way to avoid customer lawsuits is the most creative yet
CenturyLink is currently facing lawsuits from disgruntled customers and the state of Minnesota, all alleging the same thing: That CenturyLink quoted customers one price, and …
Maybe this is why the government doesn’t trust the word of cable companies
The US Justice Department is currently suing to block a proposed acquisition of Time Warner by AT&T. The deal would create a cable content behemoth …
Government says AT&T only wants to buy Time Warner to keep the cable ‘cash cow’ alive
The US Justice Department is currently suing to block the proposed acquisition of Time Warner by AT&T, and the court case is bringing all kinds …
Newsflash: There is at least one Facebook user whose privacy is a priority
Facebook has been playing fast and loose with its users’ private data since it first launched a targeted advertising program. Every so often, the lucrative …
Bitcoin falls below $7,000 amid stock market slump and regulation fears
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies continued their bad month on Wednesday, with prices for the most famous coin falling below $7,000 once again. Analysts blamed the …
Tesla’s futuristic car factories require far more human workers than other companies
Tesla’s literal master plan for making electric vehicles common hinges on the old principle of economies of scale. “The strategy of Tesla is to enter …
Spotify finally goes public with a valuation of nearly $24 billion
Over the past 12 years, Spotify has slowly but surely transformed from a niche service beloved by hardcore music lovers into a mainstream juggernaut with …
Report: Apple’s own chips will replace Intel in MacBooks within 2 years
According to a report from Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman, Apple is planning on replacing the Intel chips currently used in its Mac computers with Apple-designed processors by …
Zuckerberg slams Apple in response to CEO Tim Cook’s Facebook criticism
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg remained silent for far too long following the revelation that a shady political consultancy called Cambridge Analytica was able to steal …
Yet another FCC plan will hurt small cable companies
Under the stewardship of new chairman Ajit Pai, the Federal Communications Commission has gone out of its way to enact policies that are favorable towards …
Non-bombshell report finds 4 out of every 5 ICOs are a scam
Crypto billionaires-in-waiting, it’s time to brace yourselves. A new research paper has found that of all the large ICOs that have tried to raise funds …
Tesla issues recall for 123,000 Model S vehicles due to rusty bolts
Tesla has issued a voluntary recall on 123,000 Model S cars, those built before April 2016. The recall is due to “excessive corrosion” in the …
Under Armour data breach gives you 150 million more reasons to never work out
Under Armour confirmed late Thursday that a data breach has affected approximately 150 million MyFitnessPal accounts. The initial reports suggest that stolen data may include …
Cord-cutting will hit Comcast particularly hard
Cord-cutting is an existential problem that’s affecting the entire cable TV and satellite industry right now. But just as the weakest animals are the first …
The number of cord-cutters has tripled in the last 5 years, and it’s starting to hurt the TV channels
Cord-cutting and the shift to streaming TV services poses an existential threat to pay TV companies. The last two years have seen record numbers of …
Google has lost its billion-dollar legal fight with Oracle, but everybody will pay the price
Google is on the hook for billions of dollars in damages after a federal appeals court decided that it violated Oracle’s copyright by using Java …
Zuckerberg decides not to answer UK lawmakers’ questions over Cambridge Analytica scandal
Like every other scandal that has popped up over the years surrounding Facebook and its propensity to play fast and loose with users’ private data, …
US government confirms it’s investigating Facebook, sending shares plummeting
The US Federal Trade Commission confirmed Monday morning that it has opened a preliminary investigation into Facebook’s privacy practices. The news came in a press …
Charter has hired a Sprint exec to run its new wireless service
Charter is getting into the mobile phone business in 2018, with service plans expected to launch in the second half of this year. Although we …
