Now that it's set to become part of AT&T, many T-Mobile customers are wondering, "Will they let me get out of my contract?" It's the question T-Mobile doesn't want to answer yet.
By Daniel Roberts, reporter
It seems anyone with a cell phone contract has had the thought, whether due to owning an antiquated phone, moving to an area with no service, or dealing with an umpteenth dropped call: "When is my MORE
Mar 23, 2011 12:53 PM ET
One of the architects of Mac OS X -- and a top Steve Jobs lieutenant -- is out
"I've worked with Steve [Jobs] for 22 years and have had an incredible time developing products at both NeXT and Apple, but at this point, I want to focus less on products and more on science."
Spending more time with science, rather than one's family, is not the usual reason given for MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 23, 2011 11:01 AM ET
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The iPhone 5 will supposedly feature a metal back. Photo: Fast Company
According to the China Times, the iPhone 5 will supposedly go into production MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Mar 23, 2011 8:30 AM ET
An analyst imagines everything it might be when -- and if -- it opens this spring
Photo: Bill Wagenseller via Bernstein Research
Among the people who follow Apple (AAPL) closely, the massive server farm the company is constructing in Maiden, N.C., has achieved near mythic status. It has become the answer to every unanswered question about Apple's troubled online strategy, from what Steve Jobs was thinking when he green-lighted Ping to MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 23, 2011 6:13 AM ET
The Silicon Valley startup reveals its establishment investors, an intriguing business model, and the future of interactive textbooks -- on iPads and beyond.
Some technology advances change everything for their users in a way that is deeply visceral and memorable. I still remember, for instance, when I started using a Palm Pilot in 1997. The clunky device certainly was radical and all, but the epiphany for me was the sync-able desktop MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Mar 23, 2011 3:01 AM ET
Google updated its browser again today with a pretty significant new feature.
Google's (GOOG) newest browser, Chrome 11 Beta, has the ability to understand the spoken word. This isn't just a Java Plugin or Flash tool either. This is all done in HTML5 with something called the HTML5 speech input API.
Today, we're updating the Chrome beta channel with a couple of new capabilities, especially for web developers. Fresh from the work that we've MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 23, 2011 1:29 AM ET
Lady Gaga stopped by the GooglePlex for an hour plus interview with Marissa Mayer.
via @ladygaga
Lady Gaga obviously met some of the higher-ups including extrovert/introvert opposite Larry Page, above. Full video below, in which she spends some time talking to the audience about YouTube's role in popular culture:
Seth Weintraub - Mar 22, 2011 10:44 PM ET
Unable to fill U.S. orders, it will make the device unavailable in 25 more countries on Friday
Waiting for the iPad 2 in Philadelphia. Photo: PED
Last week, for reasons I'd rather not examine too closely, I spent the better part of an hour waiting outside an Apple retail outlet in center city Philadelphia only to be told, 50 minutes before the store was scheduled to open, that its promised overnight MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 22, 2011 1:41 PM ET
The AT&T/T-Mobile mega-merger was supposed to be too big for regulators to ever accept. Then came the wild success of industry upstart MetroPCS.
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Among the many people who mistakenly dismissed the idea of AT&T (T) buying out T-Mobile as a never-gonna-happen, count T-Mobile's very own top executives. How else to explain their snarky ad campaign that razzed AT&T for running an old, slow and unreliable network?
How so many MORE
Scott Woolley - Mar 22, 2011 1:24 PM ET
Thinner, lighter, higher resolution screen, higher resolution cameras, and starting at lower prices.
Samsung unveiled their answer to the iPad 2 today and it certainly looks impressive. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and its smaller, letter-boxier sibling, the 8.9, were unveiled at CTIA in Orlando this morning. Both devices will run Google's (GOOG) Android 3.0 Honeycomb software and have 1GHz dual-core Hummingbird ARM processors.
Samsung has said the 10.1-inch device will be available on MORE
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