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AT&T to DirecTV Customers: Let’s Stick Together

AT&T on Monday announced its first-ever nationwide package of TV and wireless services. The new bundle, which is being offered for US$200 per month, will be available beginning Aug. 10. It will include HD and DVR service for up to four TV receivers, along with unlimited talk and text for four wireless lines. Subscribers to the plan will get 10 GB of shareable wireless data...

AT&T to DirecTV Customers: Let’s Stick Together

AT&T on Monday announced its first-ever nationwide package of TV and wireless services. The new bundle, which is being offered for US$200 per month, will be available beginning Aug. 10. It will include HD and DVR service for up to four TV receivers, along with unlimited talk and text for four wireless lines. Subscribers to the plan will get 10 GB of shareable wireless data...

Mozilla Gripes at Microsoft for Giving Edge an Edge

Mozilla CEO Chris Beard on Thursday published an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, calling on him to offer Windows 10 users an easier way to set their browser preferences. ...

Major Tech Firms Join White House in Climate Change Pledge

President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and other senior White House officials on Monday met with a group of executives who pledged their companies' support for the administration's efforts to reach a strong climate change agreement in Paris this December ...

Apple Leaves Nest Thermostat Out in the Cold

Apple reportedly has pulled the Nest smart thermostat from both its online and brick-and-mortar stores, possibly paving the way for its own line of smart home appliances. The thermostat disappeared from Apple's product offerings earlier this month ...

New Ford Tech Shines Light Where Drivers Need It

Ford Motor Company has developed a new lighting system that can illuminate hazards on the road -- even those that are not in the direct line of travel of the vehicle -- better than conventional headlights. ...

Microsoft Bolsters Dynamics CRM With FieldOne Buy

Microsoft on Thursday announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire FieldOne, developer of a cloud-based field service management solution. FieldOne's technology will add a new dimension to Microsoft Dynamics CRM ...

Walmart to Crash Amazon’s Prime Day Party

Walmart on Monday announced it will offer an online sale to rival Amazon's Prime Day this Wednesday. ...

Gentlemen, Start Your 3D Printers!

Local Motors this week unveiled designs for what it hopes will be the first consumer-ready 3D-printed electric cars. ...

Artificial Intelligence Dreamtime

Google researchers last month reported progress in advancing the image classification and speech recognition capabilities of artificial neural networks ...

Musk Donates $10 Million to Keep AI From Going Rogue

The Future of Life Institute on Monday announced 37 winners of grant funding provided by Elon Musk and the Open Philanthropy Project. Musk contributed US$10 million toward the effort ...

The Tour de France’s Tech Transformation

The 102nd running of the longest sporting event in theworld, the Tour de France, begins Saturday. The race first took place in 1903, and it hascontinued every year since, except during WWI and WWII. ...

Cisco Erects 6 Pillars for the IoT

Cisco on Monday launched Cisco IoT System -- a new Internet of Things initiative comprised of 15 products geared toward improving device interoperability. As many as 50 billion devices and objects could be connected to the Internet by 2020, the company forecast, yet today more than 99 percent of things in the physical world currently are unconnected...

Self-Driving Cars Avoid Collision, as They Should

Two self-driving prototype vehicles, one operated by Google and the other operated by Delphi Automotive, earlier this week avoided a collision in Palo Alto, California. Neither car touched the other, but the incident spurred a number of rattled headlines over the so-called "near miss." ...

Skies May Soon Be Friendlier to Amazon Drones

Amazon on Wednesday appealed to members of Congress to approve use of its fleet of unmanned aircraft systems -- aka drones -- for package deliveries. ...

Can Android Give BlackBerry New Life?

BlackBerry could be considering equipping an upcoming smartphone with Google's Android operating system, Reuters reported last week. The move would be consistent with BlackBerry's strategy to focus on software and device management instead of handsets ...

E3 2015: Evolution or Stagnation?

The annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, officially kicks off in Los Angeles on Tuesday, but the festivities already have begun with a number of press events leading up to the opening. The trade show for the video game industry regularly draws in game developers, retailers and journalists from around the world, and it provides gamers with a preview of upcoming titles.

It’s Streaming Time for Showtime

CBS-owned pay-TV service Showtime on Monday announced that it will make its standalone streaming service available on Roku players and Roku TV models, as well as via Sony's PlayStation Vue, for US$10.99 per month. The service will be accessible through those channels in July -- coinciding with the season premieres of Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex, which are slated to air on July 12...

Intel Buys Altera to Fulfill Moore’s Law Promise

Intel on Monday announced that it will acquire Altera, which makes field-programmable gate array technology, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately US$16.7 billion. Intel will pay $54 a share for Altera. ...

Netflix Stars in the Internet’s Big Motion Picture Show

Streaming video accounts for more than half of all of fixed network Internet traffic, according to the newly released "Global Internet Phenomena" report from Sandvine, which based its findings on data from 250-plus communication service providers, or CSPs. ...

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