Wait a minute, is this possible? Is Sprint finally dusting itself off and getting ready to fight after year’s of being the wireless industry’s whipping boy? Per GigaOM, Sprint this week reported that it added 967,000 net subscribers in the final calendar quarter of 2014, which was enough to help it remain the third-largest wireless carrier in the country despite the huge gains T-Mobile has made in the last year.
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After news broke out a few days ago that Netflix might finally be fulfilling one of the requests coming from movie studios and rights holders — stopping Internet users, who bypass geographical limitations with help of VPN connections, from accessing Netflix content from countries other than their own (especially Netflix content for the U.S.) — the company has strongly denied such accusations, BBC reports.
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Most modern browsers come with special private modes meant to help users hide their surfing habits from coworkers or family and/or try to prevent sites from tracking their online activity. That doesn’t mean spy agencies or ISPs won’t be able to see what sites users access — that’s not what private browsing does, as Eric Schmidt has recently learned — but that, in theory, users might guard their privacy to some extent. However, as Business Insider reveals, private browsing isn’t exactly as private as you thought it was.
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LG made a splash at CES 2015, announcing a brand new flagship device that happens to be its most powerful Android smartphone to date. In addition to offering users a different kind of smartphone shape than they might be used to, the G Flex 2 also packs top hardware, which means it should offer buyers a terrific experience.
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OK, so it looks like AT&T has been throttling data speeds for customers who have “unlimited” data plans despite the fact that those plans are supposed to be, well, unlimited. Who’s going to do anything about it? The Federal Trade Commission? Well, maybe not. As Ars Technica reports, AT&T doesn’t think the FTC has the jurisdiction to stop them.
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We’re very happy to see that being away from Microsoft hasn’t changed former CEO Steve Ballmer too much. In fact, it seems that since taking over as owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball franchise, Ballmer has become even more Ballmer-y than ever before.
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GoPro a few months ago unveiled a new line of powerful cameras, deciding to announce the new products well ahead of CES 2015. But as Engadget points out, the company does have a small announcement related to its brand new Hero4 cameras set for this particular tech event.
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Microsoft’s special new browser for Windows 10, codenamed Spartan, is being detailed in more and more reports, with The Verge revealing that the new browser will be the most advanced yet, as it’ll offer users a variety of features not found on other browsers.
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On the first day of 2015, we shared one of the most incredibly frustrating tales of a Comcast customer service call gone wrong that we’ve ever heard, but at CES this week, the service provider promised that those calls will soon be a thing of the past.
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To say T-Mobile had a nice bounce-back year in 2014 would be a huge understatement. The “Un-carrier” not only added a net 8 million subscribers — including 4 million branded postpaid phone subscribers — but it also unleashed a bunch of new initiatives that gave customers more value for their money that rival carriers were quickly forced to adopt.
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