Jeff Bezos is worried about phone safety. Not your safety while you’re distracted by your phone. No, he’s worried about the gadget itself. A diagram from a patent application filed by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Gregory M. Hart to protect mobile devices from impact damage, in this instance using an air bag. Screenshot by Jay …

With allegations that Google infringed on several patents in its Android operating system, two of the biggest beneficiaries of sales of mobile devices that use the technology could well be Oracle and Microsoft. Both companies are seeking as much as a $20 licensing fee per device from handset makers that choose to use Android. That’d be roughly double the amount …

Executives from AT&T and T-Mobile visited Capitol Hill for the second time this month to defend the $39 billion deal announced in March in which AT&T would swallow its smaller rival and create a dominant wireless carrier with more than 129 million subscribers. Lawmakers don’t have a say over whether the merger gets approved. That’s up to the Justice Department …