T-Mobile in merger talks with Dish Network; John Legere would be CEO of new company
Dish Network and T-Mobile are currently exploring a merger, with T-Mobile CEO John Legere prepared to serve as CEO of the newly formed company should things proceed. News of the rumored merger was first relayed by The Wall Street Journal late on Wednesday evening.
While specifics regarding a purchase price have yet to be ironed out, the talks between the two sides are reportedly serious enough that executives between the two companies have already held serious discussions about what new roles they’d occupy should the merger becomes a reality.
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This is Microsoft bold plan to keep your iPhone always connected to the Internet
While Google and Facebook are looking at ways of bringing online more users, especially in developing markets, Microsoft has a bold Internet-related plan of its own, which involves keeping you connected at all times, even when you’re traveling.
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A look back at WWDC product announcements through the years
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, otherwise known as WWDC, has become something of a can’t-miss event in the tech world over the past few years. But if we go back in time to the pre-iPhone era, WWDC was a bit more subdued, a bit more developer oriented, and dare I say, a bit more boring.
Indeed, if you weren’t an avid Apple enthusiast, odds are that WWDC wasn’t even on your radar back in the early 2000s. Back then, WWDC wasn’t anything close to the public spectacle it has since become. So while it’s a safe bet that Apple’s WWDC announcements next week will own the tech news cycle for a few days, such a scenario would have been wholly unheard of back in, say, 2003.
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Revealed: The least healthy fast food meal America has to offer
We have a great time writing about fast food, which is why we were delighted to see that the Center for Science in the Public Interest has put out a list of the most unhealthy chain restaurant meals it could find. While our personal pick for the least healthy meal didn’t have the most calories of all the meals surveyed, it more than made up for this with massive sodium and saturated fat counts that are simply off the charts.
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Arrested Development Season 5 coming to Netflix in mid-2016
Arrested Development fans who simply can’t get enough of the Bluth family now have something to look forward to. A few months after word broke that Season 5 of the beloved comedy series was officially in the works, we now have more information about when the next installment of Arrested Development will begin filming and, more importantly, when it’ll hit Netflix.
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Ex-Googlers accuse Google of abusing its Android dominance
Google’s legal antitrust issues in Europe are far from over, as a new company has filed a complaint with regulators alleging that Google is abusing Android dominance in the region.
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Brilliant video shows all of Quentin Tarantino’s subtle allusions to classic movies
One of the things that makes Quentin Tarantino a great director is just how much he loves watching and absorbing other movies whether they’re old westerns, gangster movies or campy horror flicks. Tarantino also puts subtle allusions to older films in many of his movies and YouTube user Jacob T. Swinney has put together a compilation showing us just how often Tarantino tips his cap to films released long ago.
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The FBI is making it too easy for us to track down its spy planes
The Associated Press revealed earlier this week that the FBI appears to be the intelligence agency that’s flying spy planes in America for surveillance operations. Even though the FBI tried to keep its spy planes a secret by using dummy companies set up solely to hide them, it turns out that anyone can use a few readily available tools to track FBI planes in real-time and find out who’s operating them.
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Earn free PC games during the GOG.com Summer Sale, beginning today
After a long, cold winter, the warm weather couldn’t come soon enough this year, but its never truly summer anymore until PC games start going on sale. On Wednesday, GOG.com kicked off its DRM-Free Summer Sale, and as far as I’m concerned, June 3rd is now the official start of summer.
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Apple recalled a Beats speaker because it’s a fire hazard – everything you need to know
You rarely see Apple issue a product recall – the company would rather announce special repair programs for faulty products than recall them – but it has just announced one for one of its wireless speakers made by Beats.
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