When it comes to his company’s wireless service, Sprint Chief Operating Officer Gunther Ottendorfer likes to say “you ain’t seen nothing yet.” Come early next year, Sprint customers with a flagship phone may understand the meaning behind his words. That’s because Sprint plans to unlock a capability hidden in many of its marquee phones — …
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Michael Fassbender: VR will change the whole medium of film
Michael Fassbender is stoked about virtual reality. That’s no surprise, given that he stars in “Assassin’s Creed,” a film about reliving the memories of your parkour-loving ancestor through a machine called the Animus. It’s like VR, but taken to an insane nth degree. (The filmmakers also worked on an Assassin’s Creed virtual reality experience.) Aguilar (Michael Fassbender) lets his sword …
Read More »AT&T Vice Chairman Ralph de la Vega to retire December 31
AT&T Vice Chairman Ralph de la Vega, who had a key role in bringing the iPhone to market, will retire at the end of the year. Thaddeus Arroyo, 53, the CEO of AT&T Mexico, will take on 65-year-old de la Vega’s responsibilities as the head of international and business operations, according to a person familiar with the situation. AT&T confirmed …
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The Un-carrier wants to unlock your phone number. T-Mobile on Wednesday launched a program called Digits, which will let customers apply their phone number to multiple devices, or create and combine multiple numbers onto a single device. T-Mobile is the latest carrier to free up your phone number to multiple devices — AT&T and Verizon offer similar capabilities — a …
Read More »Pokemon Go gets new Pokemon as Sprint stores become hubs
Now playing: Watch this: Pokemon Go to partner with Sprint, introduce new monsters 1:13 You’ll soon be able to battle in Sprint-sponsored gyms. Sprint Sprint is giving Pokemon trainers a reason to come into its stores. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier is partnering with Niantic, the developer behind the smash hit Pokemon Go, to turn more than 10,500 Sprint, Boost …
Read More »AT&T calls early DirecTV Now demand ‘rather dramatic’
Cord cutters, at least initially, are high on DirecTV Now. That’s according to AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson, who said the company hit its December goal for new subscribers the day the streaming TV service launched. “The early demand has been rather dramatic,” Stephenson said at an investor conference on Tuesday. The comments offer shine a bit of light …
Read More »Qualcomm’s next chip means a slimmer, longer
When it comes to the processor that powers your phone, size matters. And Qualcomm and Samsung are going smaller than ever. The two companies on Thursday showed off the Snapdragon 835 chip, the first mobile processor to lean on a 10-nanometer manufacturing technique from Samsung, which packs millions more transistors — the engines for processing power — into a tinier …
Read More »Is the new MacBook Pro a must have? (The 3:59, Ep. 140)
The reviews for the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar are in, and the word is fairly positive. CNET’s review says Apple’s newest laptop is worth the splurge, calling the Touch Bar “inventive.” Other reviews have been more lukewarm, and the high price is still an issue. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, meanwhile, defends the role of his company in the election …
Read More »Is the HTC Bolt a Sprint exclusive you actually care about?
At first blush, this is a partnership that shouldn’t succeed. HTC, the perennial little guy whose products are routinely ignored in favor of heavy hitters like Apple or Samsung, has worked with Sprint, the nation’s fourth-place wireless carrier, on an exclusive phone. People hate exclusive phones. Yet here is the Bolt, a phone made by HTC specifically for Sprint. It …
Read More »LeEco wants to be the next Amazon in the US. Genius or bust?
You’ve probably never heard of LeEco. But the Chinese company, an unconventional mashup of Apple, Amazon, Paramount, Tesla and Netflix to millions of consumers in China, has plans, big plans, to dominate your home. That’s why it hosted a splashy coming-out party in the US last month at which it unveiled phones, TVs, a smart bike and even a trailer …
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