Civilization Revolution 2 is the first Civ game designed specifically for mobile devies. 2K Can a classic old-school game thrive in today’s ruthlessly competitive mobile world? Civilization Revolution 2 aims to find out. In an era of mobile gaming where we’re constantly asked to fork over more money to progress through games faster or access …

T-Mobile CEO John Legere. T-Mobile T-Mobile has a suitor, and it’s not Sprint. French telecommunications provider Iliad has made an offer for a controlling stake in T-Mobile. The news was earlier reported by The Wall Street Journal. The move follows reports that Sprint and its parent, Japanese carrier SoftBank, were close to a deal to buy T-Mobile. T-Mobile is a …

T-Mobile CEO John Legere. James Martin/CNET More consumers signed up for T-Mobile CEO John Legere’s Uncarrier mobile revolution as growth once again exceeded Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations. The wireless carrier swung to a second-quarter profit of $391 million, or 48 cents a share, helped by a 90-cent gain from a spectrum licensing deal with Verizon Wireless. Excluding the item, T-Mobile …

Chief Marketing Officer Mike Sievert holding the iPhone 5. Lori Grunin/CNET T-Mobile might be just as excited about the next iPhone as you. T-Mobile, of course, won’t be waiting in line at an Apple store to buy the iPhone 6. Rather, it expects to be a primary beneficiary of the launch of the high-profile smartphone, which CEO John Legere called …

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse speaking at an event in Chicago in June. Marguerite Reardon/CNET Sprint returned to a profit in the fiscal first quarter, a rare bit of positive news amid its tough turnaround. The nation’s third-largest wireless carrier by subscriber base continued to lose customers in its core Sprint and prepaid arms, posting a net loss of 220,000 subscribers …

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse at a company event in June. Sarah Tew/CNET The wireless carriers are only mover faster when it comes to aggressively priced plans and promotions. Yet Sprint remains stuck in the slow lane. Over the last several months, Verizon Wireless piled on more data and cut prices through its , AT&T launched an attractive shared family plan …

Virgin Mobile Virgin Mobile’s new prepaid program will give its customers some serious options. The prepaid arm, a unit of Sprint, unveiled Virgin Mobile Custom on Wednesday, a new offering that allows customers to control on a granular level how many minutes and text messages and how much data they want on their plan — settings that can each be …

Marguerite Reardon/CNET AT&T’s customer growth continued to surge — particularly with a rebound in smartphones — even as it missed Wall Street’s earnings and sales expectations for the second quarter. The Dallas telecommunications giant posted a second-quarter profit of$3.55 billion, or 68 cents a share, compared with a year-ago profit of $3.8 billion, or 71 cents a share. On an …

Lynn La/CNET Sprint hopes its partnership with Google will help mean inroads to new business customers. The nation’s third-largest wireless carrier by subscriber said on Wednesday that it plans to resell Google Apps, which include Gmail, Google Docs, Spreadsheets, and others, to businesses starting Aug. 18. In addition to the apps, Sprint is offering additional customer support, training tools, and …

Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam. CNET Verizon’s customer growth bounced back in the second quarter, thanks to a pickup in tablet and smartphone demand in the period. The company posted a second-quarter profit of $4.32 billion compared with a year-ago gain of $5.2 billion. But Verizon’s share of the profit, after excluding the cut that Vodafone that previously received, was actually …