The Department of Justice seems to be giving the green light to T-Mobile USA in its bid to buy MetroPCS. On Tueseday, MetroPCS announced that the DOJ has allowed the waiting period to lapse on the planned merger between the two companies. The waiting period was required under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976. …
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6 March
Intel Capital invests in firm that brings mobile apps to PCs
Intel Capital, the chip company’s venture-capital arm, has invested in software maker BlueStacks. The companies announced the deal yesterday but didn’t say how much Intel Capital invested. BlueStacks offers software, called App Player, that lets users run their mobile applications on a Mac or Windows PC. According to BlueStacks, the company’s platform has been downloaded more than 5 million times …
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Google celebrates one year of Google Play with deals
Today marks exactly one year since Google rebranded the Android Market into the Google Play store and the company is observing the occasion with limited-time deals and freebies. Deals this week include $5 books and 99-cent movie rentals as well as select magazines for only $1 each. What’s more, a number of television shows are being offered at no cost, …
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Thanks to T-Mobile USA’s expected closure of its merger with MetroPCS, the newly combined company is going to find itself with more employees than it knows what to do with. Actually, it seems the No. 4 U.S. wireless carrier already has a pretty good idea what it will do with some of them, and it involves pink slips. T-Mobile is …
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Pocket Filmmaker: pocket animation techniques
Now playing: Watch this: Pocket Filmmaker: Animation on smartphones 3:08 Welcome back to CNET Australia‘s guide to pocket film-making. The Pocket Filmmaker, Jason van Genderen, will be showing you how to turn the smartphone in your pocket into a camera capable of shooting video projects that are worthy of sharing with family and friends, online and even with the judges …
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iPhone 5S due in August with new camera tech, report says
Apple’s follow-up to the iPhone 5 will be with us before September, if fresh rumours concerning the so-called iPhone 5S are to be believed. An August debut is pencilled in for the anticipated follow-up, iMore reports, citing ‘sources familiar with the plans’. The phone itself meanwhile is tipped to have the same basic shape as the iPhone 5, but pack …
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Stream media from your Galaxy S3 to a Samsung Smart TV
Now playing: Watch this: Stream media from your Galaxy S3 to a Samsung TV 4:18 Maybe it’s not as streamlined as Apple’s AirPlay, but Samsung’s AllShare system is an often-overlooked feature that lets you wirelessly beam content like music, videos, and photos among your devices at a moment’s notice. So, you find a video you shot on your phone, tap …
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Climate Clock shows your local forecast on the hour
It’s hard to get excited about weather apps. Sure, every so often you see something original like Fahrenheit, the first app to show the outdoor temperature as an icon badge, or Dark Sky, which predicts the weather for the hour ahead. Mostly, however, they’re variations on a theme: weather forecasts, weather radar, weather video, and on and on. If you’re …
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The gloves are coming off at AT&T and T-Mobile. T-Mobile is running three ads in the nation’s largest newspapers directly attacking AT&T for taking “cheap shots” at it. AT&T last week ran an ad titled “The truth about T-Mobile’s network” that claimed the superiority of AT&T’s own coverage and network speed over those of T-Mobile. T-Mobile, in turn, took AT&T’s …
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Why more mobile OSes are good for you
commentary How do you feel about Firefox as an operating system? Or Ubuntu on your phone or tablet? Is Windows Phone 8 worth switching to? BlackBerry 10 means that the company formerly known as RIM isn’t dead yet, right? And what the heck’s a Tizen, anyway? Depending on the OS, these questions and more will begin to plague mobile phone …
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