Tweet LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billionaire John Malone’s Liberty Media Corp. said Tuesday that it will spend $650 million to increase its effective control of satellite radio company Sirius XM Radio Inc. to 45.2 percent…. Visit link: Liberty to boost stake in Sirius XM to 45 pct  Read More →

Tweet TORONTO (Reuters) – Research In Motion Ltd named a pair of wireless industry veterans to senior management roles on Tuesday as it prepares for the make-or-break launch of its next-generation BlackBerry 10 smartphones later this year. See the original post here: RIM fills long-vacant chief marketing job  Read More →

Tweet ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The mayor of Hobbs, N.M., says his city has been chosen as the site for a $1 billion scientific ghost town where researchers will be able to test everything from renewable energy innovations to intelligent traffic systems and next-generation wireless networks…. More here: Hobbs, NM, picked as site of... 

Tweet NEW YORK (AP) — The organization behind a major expansion of Internet address suffixes is offering full refunds to companies and organizations affected by a weeks-long delay in taking proposals…. See more here: ICANN offers refunds to domain name applicants  Read More →

Tweet NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The head of AT&T’s wireless business says he’s looking to introduce plans that share a data allowance among family members, similar to the way it sells family calling plans…. See the rest here: AT&T looking to introduce family data plans  Read More →

Tweet EL SEGUNDO, Calif. More here: DirecTV 1Q profit rises, but US subscribers down  Read More →

Tweet LOS ANGELES (AP) — WatchESPN, the online and mobile version of Disney’s popular sports TV network, was activated Tuesday for most of Comcast’s 22 million video subscribers…. See the article here: WatchESPN comes to Comcast’s video customers  Read More →

Tweet NEW ORLEANS (AP) — CTIA Wireless, the U.S. cellphone phone industry’s annual trade show that starts Tuesday, is drawing heavy participation not just from the cellphone industry, but from MasterCard, Visa, and other companies in the business of moving money around…. See the article here: Cellphone trade show kicks off in... 

Tweet SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Nestle, purveyor of the decades-old KitKat snack, has launched an app it says addresses a growing problem among young social media users – giving them a break from the stress of posting updates by doing it for them. See original here: Social media stress? There’s an app for that  Read More →

Tweet TOKYO (AP) — It looks just like iRobot’s Roomba vacuuming machine, except the new circular roaming vacuum cleaner from Sharp Corp. is trilingual, and even knows a hip humorous dialect…. Go here to see the original: Vacuum robot is trilingual, knows witty dialect  Read More →