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AT&T plans to give cord cutters the gift they've been waiting for just in time for the holiday season. The service provider plans to launch a new streaming service called DirecTV Now in the United States by the end of November.

Even though much of the world is being blanketed with internet signals through a variety of modalities, there are still places where getting a reliable high-speed broadband link is tough. AT&T has just announced a project that might help with that, called AirGig.

AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel have banded together to form the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) with the aim of establishing common frameworks for development of inter-connected digital and physical worlds

Chevrolet's 2015 models will be part vehicle and part smartphone thanks to the brand's plans to begin offer 4G LTE connectivity in the United States and Canada as well as an AppShop accessed via the in-dash infotainment system.

Georgia Tech is offering an accredited online Master of Science degree in Computer Science which will be open to public matriculation in the 2014-2015 school year. Built around Massive Open Online Courses, the goal is to equal the bricks and mortar degree for less than US$7K in tuition and fees.

Telecomms provider AT&T has partnered with portable solar power systems developer Goal Zero and Brooklyn design studio Pensa for the roll out of Street Charge public solar charging stations in New York.

SoftBank's 70 percent stake in Sprint could shake up the U.S. wireless market and benefit customers.

Researchers are testing a steering wheel that vibrates to let drivers know which way they should turn.

Having already launched in many world markets, Samsung has now unveiled the Samsung Galaxy S II models that are destined for U.S. carriers from September.

HP has announced that its new HP TouchPad 4G webOS tablet is to launch exclusively on AT&T's Mobile Broadband Network.

The new iPad 2 is 15 percent lighter and 33 percent thinner than the original, but is packed with new features, including a dual core processor and a couple of cameras.

Apple and Verizon Wireless have announced the the iPhone 4 will now be available on Verizon.