Do you love copying and pasting, but crave doing it stylishly? Programming resource site Stack Overflow has a new version of its three-button joke keyboard with better looks, key customizability and yes, RGB lighting. On April Fools’ Day last year, Stack Overflow jokingly threatened that it would limit functionality unless its audience bought “The Key.” …

Dish says it’s confident its 5G network will cover a fifth of the US by the middle of next month, even though it launched just this Wednesday and is available in one city. Better known for its satellite TV services, Dish made the rosy forecast on Friday in its first-quarter earnings report. The prediction was one of the few bright …

While Sonos’ range of speakers and voice-controlled soundbars support Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant, the audio company will soon release its own voice assistant, reported the The Verge on Wednesday.  Sonos Voice, as the voice assistant is reportedly called, lets customers control music with voice commands and will arrive on Sonos speakers as part of a software update on June 1 for US …

Dish, which took on the role of fourth US mobile carrier after the T-Mobile and Sprint merger finalized in April 2020, has blown past several deadlines over the years in getting its 5G network up and running. But Dish’s 5G service is finally going live in Las Vegas on Wednesday, and the company has listed over 100 cities that will …

AT&T has announced price hikes for its older mobile plans and is encouraging subscribers to upgrade to the carrier’s newer Unlimited plans.  Monthly fees for non-Unlimited plans will increase up to $6 per month for single-line customers and up to $12 per month for family accounts, according to Bloomberg, which first reported the news. AT&T cited higher business costs as …

A day after AT&T reported earnings for its first quarter, Jeff McElfresh, CEO of communications, has been named the carrier’s chief operating officer. In 2019, McElfresh, who had been working on 5G initiatives, assumed the role of CEO of communications. McElfresh was named COO in an internal message, as Fierce Wireless first reported and AT&T confirmed to CNET.   Several other executives …

Verizon is feeling the competitive heat. The nation’s largest wireless carrier suffered a decline in the first quarter and warned that its earnings growth would be at the lower end of its previous expectations.  Verizon lost 292,000 consumer postpaid phone subscriptions, the metric used by the industry as an indicator of success. In a Friday press release on its earnings for the …

We were pretty sure Google’s first smartwatch would be called the Pixel Watch, and it’s pretty much confirmed now that the tech giant has trademarked “Pixel Watch.”  Google registered the trademark days ago, on April 19, and filed it to cover the smartwatch and accessories like cases, straps, bands and “wearable computers in the nature of smartwatches” just to be …

AT&T’s decision to step away from Hollywood and focus on its core telecom business is paying off.  The Dallas-based company reported first-quarter results that saw slight gains subscriber counts across its phone and internet services amid a decline in profit and revenue, the aftermath of finally splitting off WarnerMedia and other video services.  AT&T added 691,000 net new postpaid phone …

SpaceX’s Starlink uses a network of microsatellites to beam internet down to Earth, but its newest users will be much closer: JSX, an independent air carrier, announced Thursday it will be the first to use Starlink for its in-flight internet. Passengers on the independent air carrier will get to surf the web using Starlink free of charge when the service …