T-Mobile says unlimited plans will be only option
T-Mobile said unlimited plans will be the only option for new customers even though they are more expensive than some of its old, limited plans.
T-Mobile said unlimited plans will be the only option for new customers even though they are more expensive than some of its old, limited plans.
Telecom
Jan 5, 2017
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Cellphone carriers are going all in on unlimited data.
Telecom
Nov 3, 2016
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Cellphone and broadband providers are excluding some video from data caps, meaning consumers have more data available for other apps and services.
Telecom
Dec 14, 2015
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Streaming video from Netflix, HBO and other leading services will no longer count toward data limits under T-Mobile's higher data plans.
Telecom
Nov 10, 2015
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Google is willing to store and organize all of the world's digital photos and videos for free.
Internet
May 28, 2015
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Amazon slashed the price of its Fire smartphone Monday, a day before Apple is expected to unveil its latest version of the iPhone.
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 8, 2014
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Sprint is bringing Spotify into the Framily.
Telecom
Apr 29, 2014
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Americans consume an enormous amount of media daily via television, radio, phone and computer. As you read this article on the Internet, perhaps while checking the text messages on your smartphone or listening to satellite ...
Internet
Oct 29, 2013
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A research firm says that while the iPhone 5S includes a handful of new features that set it apart from Apple's previous model, the total cost to make the new phone hasn't changed much.
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 25, 2013
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Is Microsoft's Surface a tablet or a laptop? I'm not quite sure, but it is a lot easier to type on than an iPad.
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 24, 2013
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The gigabyte /ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/ gig-ə-byt) is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units (SI), therefore 1 gigabyte is 1000000000bytes. The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB or Gbyte, but not Gb (lower case b) which is typically used for the gigabit.
Historically, the term has also been used in some fields of computer science and information technology to denote the gibibyte, or 1073741824 (10243 or 230) bytes. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) defined the unit accordingly for the use in power switchgear. In 2000, however, IEEE adopted the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) recommendation, which uses the metric prefix interpretation.
Today the usage of the unit gigabyte continues to depend on the context. When referring to disk storage capacities it usually means 109 bytes, often stated explicitly on the manufacturer's permanent sticker. This also applies to data transmission quantities over telecommunication circuits, as the telecommunications and computer networking industries have always used the SI prefixes with their standards-based meaning. When referring to RAM sizes it most often (see binary prefix adoption) has a binary interpretation of 10243 bytes, i.e. as an alias for gibibyte. File systems and software often list file sizes or free space in some mixture of SI units and binary units; they sometimes use SI prefixes to refer to binary interpretation – that is using a label of gigabyte or GB for a number computed in terms of gibibytes (GiB), continuing the confusion.
In order to address this the International Electrotechnical Commission has been promoting the use of the term gibibyte for the binary definition. This position is endorsed by other standards organizations including the IEEE, the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), but the binary prefixes have seen limited acceptance. The JEDEC industry consortium continues to recommend the IEEE 100 nomenclature of using the metric prefixes kilo, mega and giga in their binary interpretation for memory manufacturing designations.
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