Facebook has acquired Indian startup Little Eye Labs, the social network’s first acquisition of a company in that country. Little Eye Labs announced on Wednesday that it has been acquired by Facebook. In April, the company officially released its tool, Little Eye Labs for Android, which analyzes and optimizes Android application performance for developers. The …

T-Mobile said Wednesday that it will pay early-termination fees for customers who are switching to the carrier from rival phone firms. The bold move is the next phase of T-Mobile’s so-called “Uncarrier” strategy. The company says it will pay early-termination fees for customers when they trade in their devices with T-Mobile and sign up for T-Mobile wireless service. T-Mobile said …

Dish Network is reportedly pulling its bid for LightSquared, the wireless service provider mired in bankruptcy protection. The satellite TV provider, which had apparently sought LightSquared’s wireless spectrum, offered $2.2 billion for the company last year. However, LightSquared’s special committee has decided to negotiate a deal with private-equity firm Centerbridge Partners, which last month offered $3.3 billion for the wireless …

Now playing: Watch this: Ultrasound drives next-generation mobile gestures 1:36 LAS VEGAS — Waving your hand over a phone or tablet instead of touching the screen is cool in theory, but often jerky or temperamental in practice. Elliptic Labs is rewriting the rules of touch-free gestures using the sense of sound. When you turn on gesture control, ultrasonic speakers begin …

T-Mobile, trying to snatch customers away from other US carriers, appears likely to announce an offer Wednesday to pay a whole family’s early termination fees they’d otherwise have to pay themselves to cancel mobile phone contracts. Droid Life spotted a T-Mobile ad on tech sites that promises: “We’ll pay your family’s termination fees when you trade in your devices.” Such …

T-Mobile claims it now has the fastest wireless network in the United States. At a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday, the wireless operator said that its newly deployed 4G LTE network, which now covers 209 million people in the US in 273 metro areas, is the fastest wireless network in the United States. …

Alibaba, the e-commerce company in China that has established itself as one of the country’s most successful online firms, is headed to mobile, according to a new report. Alibaba plans to launch a mobile-gaming service that could be integrated into both its messaging application and its e-commerce service, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing people who claim to have …

4G is incredible. It lets you stream BBC iPlayer, Netflix or download films from iTunes or the Google Play store, and listen to music on Spotify. EE’s own data calculator suggests that if you do Web browsing every day, use email often, regularly tweet pictures, and stream TV shows several times a week, you’ll need between 4 and 5GB of …

There’s no question now that 2013 was a historic year for T-Mobile. The company reported Wednesday that it added a total of 4.4 million new subscribers to its network in all of 2013, turning around a business that had steadily been losing customers. Related stories When Does My Phone Unlock? And How Can I Get My Carrier to Do It? …

Samsung’s Galaxy S5 will be stylistically distinct from S3 and S4 predecessors, and the next-generation flagship Android phone could include an iris scanner when it ships in March or April, according to the company’s mobile-products leader. “Many people are fanatical about iris recognition technology… We are studying the possibility,” said Young-hee Lee, executive vice president of marketing for Samsung mobile’s …

T-Mobile CEO John Legere said that his company is not interested in being gobbled up by another competitor looking for more wireless spectrum. Instead, Legere and his team are focused on shaking up the wireless industry with a series of bold pricing and marketing moves. At the end of last year, rumors began floating around that Sprint, the third largest …

BlackBerry may have ditched Alicia Keys, but keys are very much part of the company’s future. The new boss of the struggling manufacturer has confirmed BlackBerry phones will predominantly boast physical keyboards. “I personally love the keyboards,” interim CEO John Chen said in an interview yesterday with Bloomberg. In the past year, former boss Thorsten Heins attempted to usher BlackBerry …

Now playing: Watch this: CES 2014: Day one wrap 1:26 We may have already had two days of news and announcements but, believe it or not, we’ve only just finished day one of CES 2014. While it’s not the rapid-fire announcements of Press Day, there’s still plenty of news coming out of Las Vegas, so here are a few of …

The Smart TV ecosystem is a bit of a wild west at the moment, with app developers forced to negotiate separate contracts with all manufacturers in order to get their apps on TVs. LG’s new Smart TV operating system on display at CES 2014. (Credit: LG Electronics) The Smart TV Alliance is hoping to change that with its Common Developer …

The movie business now will have a direct voice in a controversy about how to handle copy protection of videos on the Web. That’s because the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a group that creates Web standards, such as the HTML technology that underlies every Web page on the Internet. “Just …