May 8, 2012
- To reach the multitude of online services competing for your attention, you must first get through a bottleneck that is not competitive at all: high-speed broadband access.
May 6, 2012
- As merchants upgrade payment terminals, technology companies are maneuvering to become the standard in paying with taps and swipes.
May 2, 2012
- A leading House Democrat is demanding information from the country’s biggest cellphone companies about their role in helping police departments track suspects in criminal investigations.
April 25, 2012
- A professional traveler packs only the devices that are truly needed, like a laptop, smartphone, headphones, cords and a few other items.
- Sprint Nextel reported a net loss of $863 million, deeper than the loss of $439 million a year ago but less than analysts had expected. The company said revenue climbed 5 percent to $8.73 billion.
April 24, 2012
- The nation’s No. 2 cellphone carrier reported that net income in the first quarter rose to $3.6 billion, up from $3.4 billion in the year-ago period.
April 19, 2012
- Although the nation’s largest cellphone service added fewer customers in the first quarter, its customers paid to watch videos, use the Web or play music on their smartphones and tablets.
- Tihs month, two luxury rentals began offering the services of a “technology concierge” to handle tasks as simple as hanging a television and as complex as setting up a home office network.
- Verizon Wireless, the nation’s No. 1 carrier, is prepared to sell parts of its radio spectrum if it can proceed with its purchase of wireless-spectrum licenses from cable companies.
April 17, 2012
- As data usage multiplies on mobile devices, carriers are making more intense use of the network. But scientists and engineers say there are ways to greatly improve efficiency.