T-Mobile USA, the country’s fourth-largest cellphone carrier, has completed its acquisition of smaller rival MetroPCS.
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Tiny Toon: IBM Makes a Movie Out of Atoms
Big Blue’s researchers have set a Guinness record with their new cartoon — every pixel’s an atom.
Living History: Computing Pioneer Harry Huskey Is Honored at 97
The Computer History Museum honors a distinguished scientist who worked on the first computer, and just kept going.
Jawbone’s Fitness Future: A Platform and an Acquistion
The Bluetooth audio maker is letting other apps and services talk to its Up band, and adding BodyMedia’s products to the lineup.
“In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore.”
— BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins, in an interview with Bloomberg.
The Future of iOS Is Looking Flat
The odds are looking good that Apple will ditch the textured, bubbly look of its iOS software in favor of something more modern
Online Poker Is Back: Legal Website Launches in Nevada
Poker devotees will soon be able to skip the smoky casino and legally gamble their dollars away on the couch – at least in the state of Nevada.
Virgin Galactic Spaceship Makes First Powered Flight
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo made its first powered flight Monday, breaking the sound barrier in a test over the Mojave Desert that moves the company closer to its goal of flying paying passengers on brief hops into space.
Yay? Facebook-Connected Beer Glasses Let You Friend Randos with a Quick Clank
The Buddy Cup connects to your Facebook account, and when you clank it against someone else’s Buddy Cup, the two of you become friends on Facebook.
What If Your Smartphone Could Shape-Shift into a Stress Ball?
Imagine your phone physically transforming into a gamepad…or a stress ball.
I’m Still Trying to Figure Out Qwikster
Reed Hastings regrets Netflix’s aborted plan to spin off its DVD service. But he hasn’t explained how it happened in the first place.
Report: LivingSocial Hacked
AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher is reporting that popular daily deals site LivingSocial “has suffered a massive cyber-attack on its computer systems.”
