High-tech job growth isn't confined to the coasts: From Waco, Texas, to Bloomington, Indiana, pockets of ingenuity are everywhere.

It's no secret the Sprint, the nation's third-largest mobile service provider, opposes AT&T's proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile. Earlier this month Sprint's CEO testified before Congress that the deal could do "irreparable harm" to consumers. Now, Sprint has formally registered its objections with the Federal Communications Commission, which is scrutinizing the deal along with the Justice Department.

Apple has revealed the name of its upcoming online media service: iCloud. But don't let the cute branding fool you. The company has tried this service before, and the iCloud re-branding signals a do-over on one of Apple's greatest failures.

Google will announce a new mobile payments system on Thursday, according to Bloomberg, adding greater urgency to the all-out arms-race taking place in the point-of-sale digital money space. The announcement will include news of a partnership with Sprint to roll out a mobile-payments system based on Near Field Communication, or NFC, technology.

A Verizon executive says it’s all but inevitable that the company will eventually offer data plans that family members can share among multiple devices.

Electronic point-of-sale mobile payments at retail locations aren't quite ready for prime time -- but they're getting closer. The latest heavy hitter to enter the fray is Visa, the ubiquitous financial services company, who has announced plans for a digital wallet based on Near Field Communication, or NFC, technology.

Google's beta testers of its new Chromebooks for schools and businesses sang the praises of the web-centric devices Wednesday. It's not a song Microsoft will like.

The AT&T and T-Mobile show rolled into Washington, D.C., Wednesday for a Senate hearing on Capital Hill and, suffice it to say, there were diverging views of how the proposed $39 billion buyout would affect the national wireless market, as well as consumers and startups.

NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg unveiled the nation's first comprehensive, geographically targeted emergency notification system for mobile phones on Tuesday, declaring the launch to be a "quantum leap forward in using technology to help keep people safe."

Trust us. We're not going to screw up Skype. That was the message Microsoft delivered Tuesday, hours after formally announcing that it was buying the internet telephony pioneer for a staggering $8.5 billion.

Two public interest groups are asking the FCC to look into AT&T's new cap on broadband usage, arguing the limits could hamper the national broadband plan and let AT&T discriminate against online competitors.

AT&T's bandwidth caps go into effect Monday, putting half of U.S. broadband users to a limit on how much net they can use. We're all poorer for it.

Qik Video Connect, just released, allows for compatible Android and iOS devices to connect using video chat -- that is, if the opposing camps can tolerate each other for long enough.

They cannot be stopped. Apple, the high-flying technology company, reported another smokin' quarter on Wednesday, saying that sales soared 83 percent while profit jumped 95 percent.

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz declared Tuesday that the struggling internet portal's turnaround is "proceeding on schedule," as she tried to put an upbeat spin on financial results that registered double-digit percentage declines for both revenue and profit. "We are very confident we are headed in the right direction," Bartz, who is known for her colorful language, told investment analysts on a post-report conference call. Although the Sunnyvale, California-based internet company announced that revenue fell 24 percent and earnings fell 28 percent, Wall Street's expectations for the purple-hued web pioneer were sufficiently low enough that the results were greeted positively by investors.

In his first earnings call as CEO of Google, the internet search phenomenon he co-founded 15 years ago, Larry Page did his best impression of the company’s iconic home page. Very few words, quickly rendered. “We’ve really hit the ground running,” Page said in comments that lasted 90 seconds. “I’m very excited about Google and our momentum, and I’m very optimistic about our future.”

Comcast is offering a new broadband speed to cable customers at more than 100 Mbps. But it will cost you more than $100 a month to surf that fast.

Google has chosen Kansas City, Kansas. as its testbed for its project of putting in ultrafast net connections, an effort designed to prod the nation's ISPs to speed the net up for citizens.

The feds have extracted a settlement from Google over its botched foray into social networking, called Buzz, which infuriated privacy advocates and prompted a public apology from the company.

Yahoo shows it's still in the search game, with a new search experience it says trumps Google's Instant Search.