Marriott has backed off blocking personal Wi-Fi — for now. Hotel chain Marriott said in a statement Wednesday that it will stop preventing customers from using personal Wi-Fi hot spots and charging them fees to use Marriott’s Wi-Fi network instead. The decision comes just three months after Marriott was fined $600,000 by the Federal Communications …
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The company is adding more prepaid options. T-Mobile T-Mobile is rejiggering its prepaid plans. Starting January 25, T-Mobile will launch Simply Prepaid, which starts at $40 per month for unlimited data, talk and text. T-Mobile is also offering $50 and $60 plans. The difference among the plans is the amount of 4G LTE data that comes with each. The $40-per-month …
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Apple and Ericsson are now in the middle of a legal battle over patent royalties. Apple and wireless technology company Ericsson have ramped up their ongoing fight over royalties and patents. Apple on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the North District of California, saying that while it uses Ericsson’s LTE technology in its products, it …
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Amazon ups its game with Woody Allen. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/WireImage) Jamie McCarthy, WireImage Woody Allen has signed a deal with Amazon to write and direct his first-ever television series — a half-hour show that’s set to premiere at some point next year exclusively on Amazon Prime Instant Video, Amazon announced on Tuesday. Currently dubbed “Untitled Woody Allen Project,” there …
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For the first time, Uber has agreed to share trip-related data with a city. Uber Though it has been reluctant to disclose trip-related data in the past, ride-sharing service Uber announced Tuesday that it plans to share its data with the city of Boston in the hopes it will help the city improve the transportation landscape. Uber’s so-called “smart data” …
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Amber Alerts will pop up in Facebook News Feeds. Facebook The world’s largest social network is integrating Amber Alerts into its platform, giving the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) a direct way to reach people who could help find the abducted children, Facebook announced on Tuesday. Through the new arrangement, NCMEC will be able to post Amber …
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Spotify has hit 15 million paid subscribers. Spotify Music-streaming service Spotify has grown substantially over the last year, new data from the company shows. By the end of 2014, Spotify had reached 15 million paid subscribers and 60 million active users worldwide, the streaming provider announced Monday. The company provided no other information on its growth. But Spotify’s expansion does …
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Box CEO Aaron Levie at BoxWorks 2013 in San Francisco. Donna Tam/CNET Data-storage service Box is back on track with its initial public offering after months of delays. The company on Friday filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicating that it could offer as many as 14.4 million shares when it goes public. The company has yet to …
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Pricing for the UberCargo service will be based on time and distance. Uber Ride-sharing service Uber is now getting into the logistics business, the company announced on Wednesday. Dubbed UberCargo, the company’s new service allows users to call a van and transport large items, like a mattress, surfboard, large pet, or anything else. While the owners of the products are …
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AT&T is rolling out a new rollover plan for data, as it once did for minutes. Wireless carriers in the US are on a roll — or more precisely, a rollover. In December, T-Mobile unveiled a program called Data Stash that lets customers carry unused mobile data from one month into the following months. And now AT&T has announced that …
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