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Mobile Minutes: AT&T and Cricket; Facebook expert poached; Designing on mobile; Battling cyberattacks

AT&T CEO vows to 'shake up' no-contract wireless with Cricket 
AT&T believes the acquisition of Leap Wireless and the Cricket brand will give it a shot in the arm in the pre-paid wireless arena. At least, that's what AT&T Randall Stephenson believes. On a conference call with analysts on Tuesday, Stephenson teased big things on the no-contract front once AT&T completes its acquisition of Leap Wireless, which is expected later this quarter.

US President Barack Obama has hired Facebook's engineering director David Recordon as the new IT director for the White House. The role is a new one, and is tasked with modernizing the White House's IT infrastructure. 

There?s how a product looks and how you interact with it, and both of those things come down to design. In tech, it is the design that separates a successful product from a dud. 

The admiral who directs American cyberforces told a Senate committee on Thursday that the United States was ?at a tipping point? where it needed to increase its ability to conduct cyberattacks, to create a deterrent against other countries that are attacking it.