Spotify CEO Daniel Ek speaks at the Sprint press event. Sarah Tew/CNET Sprint has struck a deal with Spotify, the carrier announced Tuesday, in hopes of capitalizing on the popularity of streaming music services. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse introduced Sprint Sound Session, which gives premium access to live events and Spotify. The wireless carrier is …

AT&T AT&T customers will soon be able to use a 4G LTE data connection midflight, the wireless carrier announced Monday. The company said it hopes to launch a high-speed 4G LTE-based in-flight service by late 2015. To power the service, AT&T is building an air-to-ground network in the continental US that allows for Internet surfing and onboard entertainment. This could …

CNET A federal appeals court decision in an unrelated case could spell trouble for Apple’s current legal battle against rival Samsung. A US Court of Appeals decision on Friday affirmed a federal judge’s ruling in a patent-infringement case between Apple and Google’s Motorola Mobility. In 2012, US Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner of the Northern District of Illinois threw out …

Sarah Tew Amazon announced Thursday that Amazon Fire TV users will soon be able to use the device’s voice search to pull up videos from Hulu Plus, Crackle, and Showtime Anytime, giving the feature a much-needed boost of content. When the retail giant unveiled its video streaming device earlier this month, it emphasized how its voice-controled search sets it apart …

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. CNET Amazon’s long-rumored smartphone will use its 3D capabilities for 3D wallpapers, mapping and, of course, shopping, according to a report published by BGR on Tuesday. The report included leaked images of the new device, expected later this year. The first device two be released is a high-end version, with a more affordable version coming out …

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos with the company’s Kindle Fire tablet line. CNET Amazon, in another move beyond its retail roots, plans to release a smartphone in September, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The long-rumored device would thrust Amazon into the highly competitive smartphone market currently dominated by Samsung and Apple. The company would introduce the new phone in June, …

Josh Miller/CNET Amazon’s app store now has 200,000 apps, CEO Jeff Bezos announced Thursday in a letter to investors. The store has nearly tripled in size over the past year and is now in almost 200 countries, Bezos wrote in the letter, which also covered the rest of Amazon’s multitude of services, including Prime, Instant Video, Amazon Web Services, and …

Screenshot by Donna Tam/CNET Mailbox , the email productivity app that garnered fans in a flash, is finally available for Android and Mac, the identically named, Dropbox-owned company announced Wednesday. The arrival of the new Android Mailbox app, which works for Gmail and iCloud accounts, also brings a feature called auto-swipe, which “uses Dropbox to sync preferences and auto-swipe patterns …

VP of Kindle Peter Larsen on stage at Amazon’s video event. Sarah Tew/CNET Amazon unveiled new video-streaming hardware on Wednesday, a move that pits it against market leader Roku and Apple TV in a fight to be the entertainment engine in consumers’ living rooms. The Fire TV device costs $99 and features 2 gigabytes of RAM, Wi-Fi, a Bluetooth remote, …

T-Mobile CEO John Legere at the company’s press conference at CES 2014. James Martin/CNET T-Mobile is changing the way it offers discounts to customers whose companies have discounts for individual bills, the carrier announced Friday. The carrier is dumping its current discounts plan, starting April 1. The plan took a percentage — set by a customer’s company and T-Mobile — …