Lauren Goode in Product Reviews on May 21 at 6:00 am PT
Logitech’s $100 Ultrathin keyboard for iPad might just be worth the high price.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 14 at 5:30 am PT
Subscriber gains at AT&T and Verizon weren’t enough to make up for defections at Sprint and T-Mobile. The prepaid industry, meanwhile, gained two million customers in the first quarter.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 7 at 10:00 pm PT
The Wi-Fi provider is expanding its software to connect automatically to more than 70,000 free hotspots, in addition to Boingo’s own network of paid locations.
News Byte
Mike Isaac in News on May 7 at 4:00 pm PT
In-flight Wi-Fi company Gogo announced Monday it will purchase the Airfone radiotelephone service unite from Jet Blue LiveTV LLC, bagging Gogo a 1 MHz spectrum license. The acquisition adds to its existing 3 MHz license, for which Gogo beat out JetBlue in an
auction in 2006. Gogo filed its S-1 in December with plans to raise up to
$100 million in its eventual IPO.
Mike Spector and Greg Bensinger in News on April 30 at 3:06 am PT
Hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone agreed to step aside eventually as the public face of his LightSquared Inc. venture, a concession that may keep the wireless-telecommunications company from defaulting on its debt, people familiar with the negotiations said.
Amir Efrati and Don Clark in News on April 29 at 8:34 pm PT
A Google Inc. engineer told others at the company about his plan to scoop up personal information from wireless-network users as specially equipped cars drove by their homes, but the practice continued for two years after the internal disclosures, a Federal Communications Commission investigation found.
Ina Fried in Mobile on April 26 at 9:50 am PT
It’s not just that modern smartphones are gobbling up tons of data. Another part of their challenge to wireless networks is that they are constantly pinging the network.
