Pages
Data is the economy's new oil
Stacey Vanek Smith May 1, 2013
Consumer data is becoming a commodity like oil and, like oil, it needs refineries so that companies can profit from it. Meet the data analytics industry.
What Dish buying Sprint Nextel means for your TV set
Stacey Vanek Smith Apr 15, 2013
Dish Network wants to buy up Sprint Nextel for $25.5 billion. This play is all about the future of TV.
Dish TV Network bids for Sprint Nextel, sets sights on mobile
Scott Tong Apr 15, 2013
The Dish TV Network this morning is making a big bid to get into the mobile space. It wants to buy the country’s third largest cellphone carrier Sprint-Nextel for more than $25 billion.
T-Mobile's bet: Customers will pay more for phones
Mitchell Hartman Mar 26, 2013
What’s the cost of an iPhone? $200, if you pay for the rest of it through a two-year wireless contract. Now T-Mobile plans to upend the business model, asking customers to pay the true cost of the phone, and probably lower monthly wireless bills. Will their plan work with customers?
T-Mobile drops contract plans to compete with smaller carriers
Queena Kim Mar 26, 2013
T-mobile is ditching two-year contract plans and phone subsidies. Consumers will have to pay for the phone upfront or enter a payment plan.
Apps transform cellphone users into citizen scientists
Liyna Anwar Jan 7, 2013
Scientists are looking to take advantage of the vast population of cellphone users to collect data.
Sprint's Clearwire acquisition could signal move towards data
Queena Kim Dec 17, 2012
To compete with AT&T and Verizon, which have about 70 percent of the market, Sprint needs more spectrum and Clearwire has it.
AT&T expands 'video bill' service
David Gura Dec 5, 2012
Video service aims to explain to customers where their money is going.
Facebook's Photo Sync, Verizon's new patent, and the government's Death Star
David Brancaccio Dec 5, 2012
Facebook would like to become that set of shoeboxes in the attic: A place to store all your photographs, even ones you have no intention of sharing with any of your friends. It's called Photo Sync, and Google-Plus already has something like this.
What's lost when phone service goes digital
Scott Tong Nov 8, 2012
AT&T is making a big investment in its digital network -- and signaling its original, and extremely reliable, copper-wire system is on the way out.
