Dish maintains that it’s offer for Clearwire is fair and legal, and Sprint’s attempt to block it in the courts is just an attempt to divert attention away from its own failed bid. Read more »
New Yorkers soon will start seeing strange kiosks popping up in parks and other public places. They should be welcome sights, though, since anyone can plug their phones into them for a quick battery refresh. Read more »
Sweden’s iZettle is now at Square’s doorstep thanks to help from Banco Santander. The company has updated its credit card reader for the North American market. Could a push into the U.S. be far behind? Read more »
Punchey hopes to carve off a piece of mobile credit card payments market by charging lower fees for high-dollar transactions. Read more »
The company behind one of the best and highest-grossing apps on the App Store landed its first round of funding from Andreessen Horowitz and others to grow its team and expand into new and somewhat unexpected realms. Read more »
Sprint has filed a lawsuit in Delaware against Clearwire and Dish, claiming their pending nuptials violate state laws and the company’s shareholder agreements. Read more »
A French startup plans to debut the thin, transparent screens in consumer phones next year. Cars, buildings and billboards could be next. Read more »
Once more Samsung seems to be engaging in technical hyperbole. It told Reuters an LTE-Advanced Galaxy S 4 will soon go on sale in Korea. Here are the many reasons why that’s not true. Read more »
What will iPhone gaming controllers look like? A first clue comes courtesy of Kotaku’s blurry shot of an alleged Logitech iPhone controller, said to be one of the first official Made for iPhone controllers. Read more »
The south gets special attention in this round as New Orleans, Miami and Tampa all join Sprint’s LTE footprint. This expansion is the first phase of a big 120-city rollout this summer. Read more »
Sunrise tries to keep ahead of new iOS Calendar features coming in iOS 7 by adding Foursquare, Crunchbase integration into its app. Read more »
An industry group has put out an annual report showing trends in how America’s 170 million sports fans use media. Here are some highlights. Read more at paidContent »
Do you hate conference calls? Or at least the tedium of dialing into them? Do you have 10 minutes and a credit card? Then why not build your own single-number conference line? Read more »
Why is Barnes & Noble extending price cuts on Nook tablets? It may be because the retailer is trying to clear out stock. Read more at paidContent »
Can one chip make a difference in your laptop’s battery life? Yup, and hopefully it comes to Chromebooks soon. Data from connected pets can help their health while Sony countered Microsoft well with its new PS4. Read more »
Wearable devices will offer practical, novel and fun usefulness but will also be able to influence our behavior in ways good and bad, creating ethical dilemmas for designers. Read more »
First came the “phablet”, now we have the “phomera”: Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Zoom is part point-and-shoot with 10x optical zoom and part smartphone. A new Nexus 7 looks to be coming soon as does the HTC One Mini, perhaps by August. Read more »
After a trail of breadcrumb evidence, an FCC certification report indicates that a new Nexus 7 is on the way. The device forgoes an Nvidia chip for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S600. Read more »
Unsurprisingly, there’s a crazy amount of interest in the biggest visual change to iOS since its introduction in 2007. Read more »
Apple isn’t making it a requirement, but it’s something every developer should do anyway: because when you put an iOS 6-designed app next to an iOS 7-ready one, the difference will be incredibly stark — and not in a good way. Read more »
The full backing of the U.S. executive branch is now behind the idea of spectrum sharing, which would split time between federal and commercial users on the wireless airwaves. Read more »
Without any fanfare, the software giant has released the clumsily-titled “Office Mobile for Office 365 subscribers”, which seems to do what it says on the tin. Read more »
Exclusive: New usage data from Onavo shows that iOS users are taking to Chrome, to Twitter’s Vine and to Yahoo apps. Read more »
TextNow today may be an also-ran in the crowded over-the-top communications market, but it plans to set itself apart by becoming a full-fledged carrier. It wants to be the first all-IP carrier in the U.S. Read more »
Connected cars will be a big business for cellular carriers as governments demand more embedded systems inside vehicles to meet safety demands. Tethering will also be big, but smartphone integration less so. Read more »
Archimedes asked only for a lever and a place to stand and promised he could move the earth. Maybe he was only playing 200 B.C. hype man for his mathematical musings on levers, but it’s a point worth taking: Work smarter and accomplish great things. Read more »
The creation of the Open SmartWatch Project means developers can use the Android-companion Sony device to try out new peripheral use cases — at their own risk, of course. Read more »
Marissa Mayer’s hunger for fresh talent has clearly not yet been sated — in the last day alone, Yahoo has snapped up and announced the closure of two more startups. Read more »
It’s not nearly as full-featured as Google Now, but Today gives notifications about weather, commute traffic and a quick glance at future events. Read more »
Clearwire resisted Dish’s advances for five months, but it has finally given in. Clearwire’s board recommended today that shareholders give Sprint the old heave-ho and back Dish’s offer to assume a major stake in the WiMAX operator. Read more »
It’s not the latest 4G-capable iPad that’s eating up all this data, though, it’s older 3G models, mainly the iPad 2 and iPad 3. Read more »
Direct from Asia, imported by Path and co-opted by Facebook, stickers are hitting the mainstream and becoming the new way people message every day. Read more »
Belly is offering a bunch of new tools to small businesses to help them amp up their loyalty programs and market to new customers. Read more »
AMD is joining the Chrome game but we’re still waiting for Intel Haswell hardware. Apple has it and now the MacBook Air gets 12 hours of battery life! We share a pair of great extensions and talk about iTunes in the browser. Read more »
The Swedish reverse-lookup phone directory service, which recently invited third-party developers to access its databases, is on a roll. And India continues to provide the company’s most fertile ground for growth. Read more »
We know the NSA is collecting our call records, but there are far bigger fonts of information carriers hold. The mobile network is highly managed, tracking our internet habits from the websites we visit to the apps we use. Read more »
One of the “key features” of iOS 6 didn’t merit a mention by Apple in the introduction of iOS 7. But perhaps Apple has something bigger planned. Read more »
New studies show websites fending off 95 percent more exploits than five years ago, and 30 percent safer than last year. Are mobile devices throwing a wrench in the works? Backend APIs, leveraging web logic for mobile and brute scrapers. How simple strategies are often most secure. Read more »
Is iTunes not your media player of choice? No problem: You may have another option soon only this one will be in the browser. Google has added iTunes as a default destination for local media files usable by Chrome. Read more »
After months of rumors that speculated the company was the target of an acquisition by either Facebook or Google, social-mapping provider Waze is set to be snapped up by Google and added to the web giant’s map service. Read more »
