T-Mobile, helmed by CEO John Legere, will need to dip into its cash to pay an FCC fine. Josh Miller/CNET The fourth-largest carrier in the US has been hit with a fine over emergency services outages that affected its network last year. T-Mobile has agreed to settle a complaint from the Federal Communications Commission over …
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Amazon Prime members in Chicago, Indianapolis can now buy a product have this box on doorsteps in a couple hours. Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Amazon’s Prime Now, the company’s same-day-delivery offering, is now available in two more cities. Prime Now has launched in Chicago, Illinois and Indianapolis, Indiana, Amazon announced on Thursday. The service will allow Amazon Prime members to …
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Google’s shares are on the rise after a stronger-than-expected showing in mobile. Adam Berry/Getty Images Google shares skyrocketed on Friday after stockholders expressed hope that the company’s efforts in mobile advertising are starting to pay off. Google shares surged nearly 15 percent to $664.88 on Friday after shareholders got their first chance to trade the company’s stock after stellar second-quarter …
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Qualcomm finds itself in some trouble in the European Union over deals with mobile vendors. Sarah Tew / CNET The European Union has launched antitrust investigations into yet another US-based company, the eurozone’s competition commissioner announced on Thursday. The European Union’s competition watchdog, the European Commission (EC), has launched two antitrust investigations into chipmaker Qualcomm over claims that it may …
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MetroPCS is making it cheaper to communicate with and inside Mexico. MetroPCS T-Mobile’s prepaid wireless arm MetroPCS has joined its parent company in offering new services south of the border. MetroPCS on Wednesday unveiled a new plan, Mexico Unlimited, that drops the cost of making calls from the US to Mexico or inside Mexico itself. Customers using the plan can …
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In Samsung’s smart-home vision, screens will provide recipes, notifications and reminders as well as entertainment. The market for Internet-connected appliances and other gadgets is set to take off, says a researcher. Samsung; screenshot by CNET If you thought the smart-home movement was coming on strong, new data suggests you haven’t seen anything yet. Smart appliances — or products like washing …
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President Barack Obama inspects a piece of fiber-optic cable during a January visit to an Iowa utilty as he promoted his early plan for increasing access to affordable high-speed broadband across the nation. Pool, Getty Images The Obama administration on Wednesday announced a broad initiative that aims to provide high-speed Internet service to low-income households. Dubbed ConnectHome, the new initiative …
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Another critical employee at Reddit has left the company as trouble continues. Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET Reddit, the traditionally unbridled social-news site and community forum, has lost another key staffer, the third executive to exit this month amid the company’s effort to strike a balance for users between uninhibited speech and a climate free from abusive and other undesirable content. …
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Nokia may eventually get back into the smartphone business. CNET A Nokia Technologies spokesman has answered a question that has been asked ever since the company sold its Devices business to Microsoft: Will Nokia ever get back into the mobile devices business? The answer…”It’s complicated.” Spokesman Robert Morlino wrote Monday in a company blog post that Nokia has plans to …
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Nokia is said to want at least $4 billion for mapping service Here. Nokia Nokia has rebuffed an offer by car-hailing service Uber to buy up its mapping business Here for as much as $3 billion, according to a Monday report by The New York Times, citing people with knowledge of the negotiations. The offer may have been too small …
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