Lynn La/CNET Sprint’s Framily plan may sound funny, but the company was quite serious when …

Apple and Samsung are presenting closing arguments in their patent-infringement trial. James Martin/CNET SAN JOSE, Calif. — Samsung didn’t copy Apple’s patents because Google created the technology first and Apple doesn’t even use the specific accused features in the iPhone, attorneys for the Korean electronics maker told a jury here. “It’s true that if you don’t practice a patent, that …

Lynn La/CNET Sprint’s painful transition continues. The long slog of improving its network continues to take a toll on Sprint’s customer base, with nearly half a million net customers leaving the carrier in the first quarter of 2014, a 12 percent higher level of defection than a year ago. The Overland Park, Kan., wireless provider on Tuesday posted a first-quarter …