NEW YORK — AT&T is caving to complaints that it’s placing unreasonable limits on the “unlimited data” plans it offers smartphone subscribers. The cellphone company says that from now on, it will only slow down service for its “unlimited data” ...

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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — When AT&T started slowing the data service for his iPhone, Matt Spaccarelli, an unemployed truck driver and student, took the country’s largest telecommunications company to small-claims court. His award: $850. Pro-tem Judge Russell Nadel found in ...

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WASHINGTON — Visitors to the National Mall and to Arlington National Cemetery will have new transportation options in time for the National Cherry Blossom Festival. A new shuttle and tour service begins operating Monday at Arlington cemetery, the park service said. ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix’s Internet video service makes its debut in the United Kingdom and Ireland Monday. It’s part of a previously announced expansion that is expected to saddle Netflix Inc. with a loss this year. The subscription service will ...

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Apologies in advance for the ALL CAPS to come, but I was forwarded a press release that makes me want to SCREAM. Seems there is a company based in Oklahoma that has created GripeAtMe.com, which is pretty much what it ...

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NEW YORK — BlackBerry users across the world were exasperated Wednesday as an outage of email, messaging and Internet services on the phones spread to the U.S. and Canada and stretched into the third day for Europe, Asia, Latin America ...

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WASHINGTON — Service firms that employ 90 percent of the U.S. work force expanded at a slightly faster pace in August. But the sector remains too weak to help an economy that is barely growing and struggling to create jobs. ...

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The U.S. Postal Service said Monday that pickup and delivery of mail for business and residents near the Baltimore Grand Prix course would be curtailed, but at least one city official said he was “stunned” by the announcement. Grand Prix ...

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WASHINGTON — The Senate has approved legislation ending a two-week partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration and President Barack Obama signed it into law, clearing the way for thousands of employees to return to work and hundreds of airport ...

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WASHINGTON — The US service sector, which employs nearly 90 percent of the nation’s work force, grew for the 17th straight month in April, though at the slowest pace since August. The Institute for Supply Management, a private trade group ...

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