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Verizon, Motorola Debut Smartphone with 5G-capable Add-on Mod

With carriers promising mobile 5G network coverage early next year, Verizon and Motorola have introduced a new smartphone capable of upgrading to 5G when the time comes via a clip-on module housing a 5G-capable modem. Motorola’s new Moto Z3 will be available starting Aug. 16, exclusively at Verizon stores, for $480. The 5G moto mod, […]

Sprint Adds 87K Postpaid Phone Customers as It Works Toward T-Mobile Merger

Sprint on Wednesday announced adding 87,000 net postpaid phone subscribers in the latest quarter, as the carrier works to gain approval for its proposed merger with T-Mobile. Additions in the lucrative postpaid phone category improved sequentially and beat analysts’ estimates of 40,000 gains, but were similar to what the No. 4 U.S. wireless carrier reported […]

5G is coming to Houston. Here’s why that’s a big deal

Verizon recently announced it will bring a broadband-like version of its 5G wireless technology to the city sometime this year. The technology, heralded as the next generation of internet speeds, will make the process of loading websites, downloading songs and streaming movies at least 10 times faster than 4G. The carrier plans to bring the same type of fixed wireless 5G to Sacramento, […]

Phone data expert links murder victim, defendant

After putting 22 witnesses on the stand in Fauquier Circuit Court this week, the prosecution on Wednesday afternoon rested its case in the trial of an Alexandria man charged with murdering a Warrenton CVS manager in the store’s parking lot last July. Bernard C. Duse Jr. allegedly shot and killed his boss, Rex Mack Olsen, […]

Police Are Seeking More Digital Evidence From Tech Companies

U.S. law enforcement agencies are increasingly asking technology companies for access to digital evidence on mobile phones and apps, with about 80 percent of the requests granted, a new study found. The report released Wednesday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies found local, state and federal law enforcement made more than 130,000 requests […]