Mobile Minutes: Email's rough year; Google and CBS deal; apps for dating; T-Mobile fined $48M
Whoever wins the White House, this year?s big loser is email
Every four years, pundits race to anoint this or that newfangled
tech trend as the next disruptive force to forever alter the mechanics of
American democracy. The 2016 campaign has already been called the Snapchat
election, the Periscope election, the Meerkat election, the Twitter election,
the Facebook election and the meme election. (If there were a vomit emoji, I?d
insert one here. And then we?d have the emoji election.)
Read more at the New York Times
Google signs up CBS for Internet TV service: sources
Alphabet Inc unit Google has reached an agreement with CBS
Corp to carry the network on its web TV service and is in talks with 21st
Century Fox and Viacom Inc to distribute its channels, three sources
told Reuters on Wednesday.
Read more at Reuters
These apps are perfecting the art of getting you to pay for
dates
"The sight of lovers feedeth those in love," William
Shakespeare argued in a 16th century love story. Never have those sights
been more common than 417 years later, when visions of potential adoration can
be swiped at breakneck speed on any smartphone.
Read more at Bloomberg
T-Mobile to pay $48M for misleading unlimited data plan
T-Mobile has agreed to a $48 million settlement with the Federal
Communications Commission for misleading consumers about its
"unlimited" data plan.
Read more at CNET