T-Mobile Acquired, Nexus S 4G Announced, Google Fined: This Morning’s Top Stories

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.

AT&T Acquires T-Mobile for $39 Billion

AT&T reached a definitive agreement with Deutsche Telekom to acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 billion in cash and stock, the companies announced over the weekend. T-Mobile will not begin offering the iPhone on its network in the immediate future, however.

Google Announces Nexus S 4G for Sprint

Google has added Nexus S 4G, available first on the Sprint network, to its line of Android 2.3-running smartphones. In addition, Google announced that existing Sprint customers will be able to use their Sprint mobile numbers as their Google Voice numbers going forward.

France Fines Google 100,000 Euros for Street View Data

France has fined Google 100,000 euros ($142,000) for collecting private information without authorization while compiling its panoramic Street View service, France’s data privacy regulator said Monday.

Facebook Acquires Snaptu

Facebook has acquired Israeli startup Snaptu, a creator of simple mobile applications for feature phones, for an estimated $70 million.

Further News

A coding error that potentially revealed some Tumblr users’ passwords, server IP addresses, API keys and personal information was discovered and then fixed over the weekend.

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‘Wireless’ humans could backbone new mobile networks

People could form the backbone of powerful new mobile internet networks by carrying wearable sensors. The sensors could create new ultra high bandwidth mobile internet infrastructures and reduce the density of mobile phone base stations.Engineers from Queen’s Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology are working on a new project based on the rapidly developing science of body-centric communications.Social benefits could include vast improvements in mobile gaming and remote healthcare, along with new precision monitoring of athletes and real-time tactical training in team sports, an institute release said.The researchers are investigating how small sensors carried by members of the public, in items such as next generation smartphones, could communicate with each other to create potentially vast body-to-body networks.The new sensors would interact to transmit data, providing ‘anytime, anywhere’ mobile network connectivity.Simon Cotton from the i...

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