Like a holodeck in your pocket. Video screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET Over the years, I’ve taken some heat for saying that the iPhone jumped the shark years ago or predicting that the iPhone 6 will be more run of the mill than a runaway hit. So far, I’ve yet to see anything on the horizon …

Shortly after at least two bombs exploded near the Boston Marathon finish line today, reportedly killing at least two people and injuring dozens, cell phone service in the heart of the city was severely disrupted. An Associated Press report initially claimed, citing an anonymous law enforcement official, that “cellphone service has been shut down in the Boston area to prevent …

Google Now is the Mountain View, Calif.-based monolith’s apparent answer to Apple’s Siri — a voice assistant that responds to requests for information and other commands, while also trying to anticipate what bits of data you might want by digging into your search history and other interactions with the Googleverse. It’s a buzz-worthy feature available only on Android 4.1 Jelly …

A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday would compel wireless carriers to be more forthcoming about what exactly customers can expect from services marketed as 4G. The bill from Minnesota Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, along with Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal–all Democrats–is similar to the “Next Generation Wireless Disclosure Act,” which was introduced in the U.S. House of …

Add Sprint to the list of big names choosing to speak now rather than hold their peace on AT&T and T-Mobile’s dreams of corporate matrimony. Saying it would violate the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, Sprint today filed a lawsuit opposing the deal before the same Washington, D.C.-based federal judge who received a related suit filed last week by the Department of …

AT&T may need to knock on a few doors and place a few calls to get back nearly a billion dollars it payed to states and other governments on behalf of its wireless customers. That’s one of the requirements of a class-action settlement approved last week over taxes the company is alleged to have levied improperly for wireless data. Lawyers …