T-Mobile leases 7,200 mobile towers to Crown Castle in a 28-year, $2.4 billion deal
By Daniel Cooper posted Sep 28th 2012 12:44PM T-Mobile’s just received a hefty cash boost thanks to a tower-leasing agreement it’s entered into with Crown Castle. The deal leases 7,200 wireless towers to the infrastructure firm for a term of 28 years in exchange for $2.4 billion — that T-Mobile’s parent Deutsche Telekom will use to pay off debt. As part of the contract, Crown Castle can buy the towers outright...
MacBook Pro with Retina Display Named Editors’ Choice
By Joel Santo Domingo The Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Retina Display) is the laptop you want if you care about performance, thinness, and the screen. It’s not the vaunted “15-inch MacBook Air” that was rumored prior to 2012’s WWDC—it’s better, thanks to an up-to-date components, super-thin chassis, and impressive battery life. This “next-generation” MacBook Pro hasn’t just caught up to...
NPD: Android users chew an average 870MB of cellular data per month, youngest gobble the most
By Jon Fingas posted Sep 28th 2012 1:12PM Ever wonder how much data you burn through every month on average? If you’re an Android user within the US, odds are that it’s quite a lot. The NPD Group estimates that Americans of the Google persuasion typically consume about 870MB of data on cellular networks every month. While it’s not an extreme amount next to the 2.5GB of WiFi usage, it’s enough to give anyone...
Amazon breaks down its Kindle Paperwhite light technology (video)
By Brian Heater posted Sep 28th 2012 1:41PM Amazon’s certainly not the first company to deliver an illuminated e-reader, but the mega-retailer’s psyched about its new Kindle Paperwhite nonetheless, and after playing around with the device a bit, it’s easy to see why. According to CEO Jeff Bezos, R&D’s been working on the technology for years now, attempting to get the perfect balance of brightness and...
HP takes Open webOS 1.0 live, shows it supersized on a TouchSmart (video)
By Jon Fingas posted Sep 28th 2012 2:04PM WebOS loyalists have been waiting a long, long time for HP’s September launch of Open webOS, but the company has made good on its promise with not a moment to spare. Open webOS 1.0 is now available with core browser and e-mail apps, the Enyo 2.0 framework and enough hooks to allow porting to a platform of choice. To prove this last point, HP has gone so far as to port the software to a...
