Cricket stores get a new look under AT&T. Cricket The Cricket Wireless brand got a new lease on life thanks to AT&T, which re-introduced the prepaid wireless service on Sunday with a new set of competitive offers. AT&T inherited the Cricket brand through its $1.2 billion acquisition of Cricket-parent Leap Wireless, which closed in March. …
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Trip Hawkins’ latest project is called If. Screenshot by Roger Cheng/CNET It was more than a decade ago, but gaming trailblazer Trip Hawkins remembered the day that he got admonished by his children for being rude to a waitress. His children attended the Nueva School in Hillsborough, Calif., which included in its curriculum training in social and emotional learning (SEL) …
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Screenshot by Roger Cheng/CNET Samsung has yet another device up its sleeve. The company sent out invitations to the media to its “Samsung Galaxy Premiere” event, set for June 12 in New York. While the invitation offers scant detail, the tagline “Tab Into Color” suggests a new version of its Galaxy Tab line of tablets. Samsung has been eager to …
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Univision Spanish-language entertainment giant Univision is getting into the wireless business — courtesy of T-Mobile. Univision and T-Mobile on Thursday announced Univision Mobile, a wireless service targeting the Hispanic market with specific plans and Univision content. Univision is hoping to extend its entertainment brand into the mobile world, while the move could potentially net T-Mobile a larger share of the …
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The BlackBerry Q10 can be managed by multiple companies, giving it a bit more flexibility in the work environment. Sarah Tew/CNET BlackBerry took another step in tearing down its walled garden on Tuesday after announcing that it would let other companies manage its BlackBerry 10 smartphones. Traditionally, company IT departments that wanted to remotely manage their employees’ BlackBerrys needed a …
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The Motorola Moto E. Motorola Mobility It started with a chart on a wall. Mark Randall, head of supply chain and operations for Motorola Mobility, was sitting in a meeting with a Brazilian carrier. The meetup was part of a world tour of carriers that he and then-CEO Dennis Woodside embarked on shortly after joining the company in 2012. Sitting …
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TCL has a prominent position at the global premiere of “X-Men: Days of Future Past.” Roger Cheng/CNET TCL is the biggest name in television you’ve probably never heard of. The Chinese company is the third-largest LCD television manufacturer in the world, behind Samsung and LG. It offers a diverse portfolio of products, which ranges from cell phones — marketed in …
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Beats Chairman Jimmy Iovine, HTC CEO Peter Chou, and Dr. Dre. HTC, Beats Editor’s note: Apple on May 28 confirmed that it’s buying Beats for $3 billion. A high-flying smartphone manufacturer is buying the much-ballyhooed Beats music brand in an effort to earn some street cred. No, I’m not talking about the purported deal between Apple and Beats, which the …
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An AT&T store in downtown San Francisco. Josh Lowensohn/CNET AT&T Chief Financial Officer John Stephens says he’s isn’t fazed by carrier rhetoric in the so-called price war. “The competition is more noisy than disruptive,” Stephens said Thursday at an investors conference in Miami. T-Mobile’s offer to pay off the early termination fees of customers willing to switch to its service …
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Verizon Verizon expects more people opting to pay for their mobile devices over monthly installments, part of an industry shift in how consumers pay for their wireless service and equipment. The company’s adoption rate for its Edge monthly installment and upgrade program was 15 percent in the first quarter, according to Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo. He said he …
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