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Dinner time: Surrender your cell phones to dad
Janell Burley Hofmann May 13, 2013
The story of how one family makes time for each other at dinner in our high tech, interconnected world.
Media, cell phone companies exploring ways to lower data costs
David Gura May 10, 2013
Media companies are considering subsidizing data-plan costs so smartphone users will keep watching video, wireless carriers will keep data revenue, and streaming shows can sell more ads.
Siri, meet your new competitor, Google Now
Queena Kim Apr 30, 2013
Siri has some stiff competition in Google's Google Now, which just hit iPhone.
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.
What to do with an old cell phone: Sell it!
Kai Ryssdal Feb 19, 2013
Consumers are sitting on $33 billion worth of old, unused mobile phones.
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.
President Obama's secret directive on cyber ops
David Brancaccio Nov 15, 2012
The president has reportedly signed a directive that could change the way the government could fight cyber terrorism. Also, cell phones that can get a charge from a good shake, and climate change's impact on satellites.
Sprint Nextel to get a $20 billion lifeline
Jeff Tyler Oct 15, 2012
Softbank, Japan’s No. 3 mobile phone network, agrees to buy a majority stake in Sprint, in a bold bid to take on giants AT&T and Verizon.
Softbank to acquire Sprint, enter U.S. market
Amy Scott Oct 15, 2012
The Japanese mobile phone carrier Softbank has reached a deal to buy 70 percent of U.S. wireless company Sprint Nextel. The $20 billion dollar deal is the largest-ever Japanese acquisition of a foreign company.
