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Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times Carriers say the new restriction will make it harder for “gray market” businesses to launder and sell stolen cellphonesYour right to unlock your cellphone is about to expire. Cellphone carriers say this is for your own good — and theirs. Unlocking a cellphone enables it to work on a wireless carrier other than the one you bought it from. Read more…
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. For Friday, selections include a woman’s lawsuit against an online dating service that matched her with a man who later assaulted her, Yahoo’s chief executive talking about feeding information from the Web to mobile devices, and an Internet pioneer discussing sharing more information online. Read more…
Vine, a new video capture tool introduced by Twitter, lends a quirky, stop-motion feel to its creations, which could have both entertaining and odd implications for the microblogging service. Read more…
Labor recruiters in China last year knowingly provided underage workers to a supplier that built parts for products from Apple and other companies. That finding was included in Apple’s 2013 report on labor conditions at its suppliers, where more than 1.5 million workers make or assemble the ingredients that go into its products. Read more…
AT&T has agreed to buy some spectrum — the radio waves that carry wireless calls and data — from its main competitor, Verizon Wireless. It will pay $1.9 billion for spectrum licenses that would cover 42 million people across 18 states. Read more…
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images With its new shared data plans, Verizon Wireless is succeeding at pushing consumers to spend more money on wireless data. So why not roll out these plans to businesses? Read more…
Alessandra Montalto/The New York Times Mr. Jackson’s fans used Amazon to malign a “Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson”, a new book on the singer. But as news of their exploits spread, some people struck back. Read more…
A court case in France involving Twitter is another dust-up in the struggle over speech on the Internet, and which countries’ laws prevail. Read more…
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. For Thursday, selections include a video clip of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in a new movie, a technology group’s effort to take an activist role in New York City elections and Google’s plan to build a private bridge connecting two of its installations. Read more…
On Thursday, Twitter introduced Vine, a new video sharing service for the iPhone and iPod touch, but it came with a few privacy snags. Vine lets users create and share bite-size, looping video clips that are six seconds long or shorter. Read more…
The Times’s Nick Wingfield talks about Apple’s detrimental legacy of success. Read more…
AT&T’s U-verse service, which includes its phone, Internet and TV services, has been knocked out for days in several cities. But the company says the service should be working again very soon for all customers. Read more…
Because of Apple’s great success in recent years, many investors have come to expect nothing short of perfection from it. And while it is still widely considered the most innovative company in the technology world, Apple is facing a range of challenges. Read more…
Netflix reported $8 million in net income, surprising analysts who had expected a slight loss. It increased the number of subscribers for its streaming service to 27 million. Read more »
Manufacturers of robots and similar machines gathered in Chicago, casting automation as an indispensable engine of economic growth. Read more »
