The wireless giant reported non-GAAP fourth quarter earnings of 78 cents a share (69 cents a share GAAP) on revenue of $41 billion, beating Wall Street’s estimate of 76 cents a share on revenue of $40.4 billion. For the full year, AT&T’s non-GAAP earnings were $3.40 a share ($2.76 a share GAAP), on revenue of $168.9 billion. According to its press release, for 2021, AT&T said it led the industry in postpaid phone net adds, gaining more subscribers than in the prior 10 years combined; added more than a million fiber subscribers — the fourth year in a row in which it added at least 1 million subscribers; and exceeded the high end of its guidance for global HBO Max and HBO subscribers....

. Apple is clearly in inventory clearance mode with the iPhone 5 at this point. Just a few hours ago, we reported that Walmart would be carrying the iPhone 5 for $129 with a two year plan. That’s not a promotion, that’s the new in-store price. Earlier yesterday, Virgin Mobile a pre-paid subsidiary of Sprint announced it would be carrying the iPhone for $549 unsubsidized – which is $100 off of retail....

Subsidization really makes sense because the carrier is using the customer’s bandwidth to provide 3G access. Charging a monthly fee, in this case $20/month, for the customer to use their own bandwidth to support AT&T’s customers seems like just a bit of a dick move. Maybe AT&T should be paying people to use their microcells? Sure the box costs money to build and support, but AT&T could certainly use the access bandwidth and certainly the good PR....

An Avengers: Endgame deleted scene reveals an alternate version of Black Widow’s death - and it’s worse than the theatrical cut. The moment Hawkeye and Black Widow headed off to Vormir in Avengers: Endgame, viewers knew that one of them wouldn’t make it out alive. In order to acquire the Soul Stone, you have to sacrifice someone you love - and the close, almost familial, bond between Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff meant either would be heartbroken to lose the other....

We already had a number of updates to Apple’s own apps today, including iWork for iOS, Apple Remote Desktop, iTunes U, Xcode 4.4, Safari 6, and OS X Server, but below is our usual list of popular apps and updates hitting the store today: Update: Apple has now updated its Podcasts app with the expected bug fixes. Release notes below: What’s New in Version 1.0.1 Podcasts 1.0.1 provides a number of improvements, including:...

The expected spinoff to the now-ended Arrow, Green Arrow and the Canaries hasn’t yet been ordered to series, according to showrunner Beth Schwartz. There have been a number of ideas floated as to what will come next in the Arrowverse, with the original program in the universe having come to a conclusion a few weeks ago. Green Arrow and the Canaries became the torchbearer, with many expecting The CW to jump at the opportunity to keep many of the characters from Arrow in the fold going forward....

There is often a belief from newcomers to web security that attacking web services requires some mystical, super difficult set of advanced attacks to break. The reality is that web services suffer from many of the same types of vulnerabilities that plague traditional browser-based applications. For instance, you’ll notice that Broken authentication and Sessions Management flaws are included under our list of weaknesses below. Look familiar? It should, this is an OWASP Top Ten vulnerability that affects both web applications and web services alike....

Lou Ferrigno has shared his disappointment over Avengers: Endgame’s depiction of the Hulk. Known for voicing the late ’70s/early ’80s The Incredible Hulk TV show, the actor also provided the hulking voice on Marvel Studios’ The Incredible Hulk film starring Edward Norton as well as Mark Ruffalo’s first go at the character in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers. Since 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, however, Ruffalo has taken over the role fully....

Captain America almost had a completely different shield in Avengers: Infinity War that would’ve paid off a tease in Spider-Man: Homecoming. One of the most iconic parts of Captain America’s costume is his trusty shield, and it’s been with the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s version of the man out of time since the beginning. Made out of the rare vibranium metal, the various capabilities of the red, blue, and white shield have tremendously helped out Steve Rogers during his days as a super hero....

It looks like the biggest app update might go to the Google Earth iOS app due to reports that claim the new 3D maps feature Google demoed last month will roll out sometime today. Until then, below is our list of other apps and updates hitting the App Store: Walking Dead: The Game: While Telltale has been teasing the iOS game for the hit TV series The Walking Dead, today we finally get our hands on the first “A New Day” episode available in the App Store for $4....

A Cisco certification can also help boost salary. According to the Global Knowledge 2020 IT Skills and Salary Survey, the CCNP Routing and Switching certification (a soon-to-be replaced professional-level credential designed for network engineers and administrators) is in the list of 15 top-paying IT certifications. Cisco is about to retire some of their certification exams. Now what? With technology and roles evolving so fast, Cisco Systems regularly upgrades its certification tracks in order to better validate a professional’s skills, cover the newest technologies and be in line with current job roles and today’s IT practitioners’ interests or aspirations....

The Arrow season 8 trailer is released by The CW teasing the series’ final season. Arrow premiered in 2012 as the first show to launch the popular Arrowverse. Now, the universe includes The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, and new series Batwoman, which premieres Oct. 6. All five shows, plus characters from fellow DC series Black Lightning, will unite at the end of the year for the massive Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover....

The Arrowverse is constantly expanding and contains a lot of memorable characters. While some of them have gained the spotlight they deserve, others should get their own TV show to continue fleshing out their backstory and exploring their lives further. Across all the Arrowverse shows there’s plenty of characters that we could think of to give a spin-off show to. Recently there have been reports that some of these characters are in fact getting their own TV series....

Apple chose some excerpts from the recent iPad Pro reviews earlier this week, and has now done the same with reviews of the new MacBook Air and Mac mini … For the MacBook Air, Apple has chosen to highlight comments about the display, performance, battery-life, portability, design, Touch ID and use of recycled aluminum. With the Mac mini, Apple chose quotes about power, storage, connectivity, network speed, flexibility, design, value and customization options....

AT&T and DirecTV’s $48.5 billion merger has been approved today following more than a year of regulatory review. The merger will see AT&T become the biggest pay-TV company, passing up cable company Comcast. AT&T says it will serve more than 26 million U.S. customers and 19 million users in Latin America. As part of the regulatory approval, the FCC has applied several conditions to the merger, all of which will be imposed for four years and enforced by internal and external compliance officers....

Fans of macOS automation features like Automator and AppleScript feared the worst this week as it transpired that head of the automation technologies division, Sal Soghoian, had left the company and the whole unit inside Apple had been closed down. This fuelled speculation that Apple was abandoning a core power feature of the pro Mac user’s wheelhouse. Automation encapsulates a lot of Mac features that allow users to make a script, in code using AppleScript or a GUI with Automator, to let the operating system handle repetitive tasks and time-consuming work....

Even with Marvel releasing several trailers and teasers for Avengers: Endgame, fans still aren’t quite sure what to expect from the highly-anticipated, three-hour-long film. Viewers know that the heroes who survived Thanos’ snap which wiped out half of all life across the entire universe will be joining together to try to bring their fallen loved ones back and take down the Mad Titan once and for all, but outside of that, the details of the massive crossover event have been largely kept secret....

Avengers: Endgame’s final battle is the biggest action sequence in the MCU, but there are several ways it was almost very different, with a number of scenes cut from the finale. Avengers: Endgame is now the highest-grossing movie of all-time, and provided a satisfying conclusion to Marvel’s Infinity Saga. After a time heist storyline that saw the Avengers time-travel via the Quantum Realm in order to retrieve the Infinity Stones and bring all of the blipped heroes back, Avengers: Endgame culminated with an epic battle that brought together just about every known MCU superhero to fight against Thanos and his minions....

Our list of newly released apps and updates kicks off today with two new Nike+ apps and another nice update that brings even more content to Flipboard. As always, we will keep this list updated as more notable app related news comes up throughout the day. Nike+ Training: Nike released a new app today that works with shoes using the Nike+ Sport Adapter (included in Nike+ Sport Pack bundles) that syncs wirelessly with your iOS device over Bluetooth....

As Apple fans eagerly await the launch of the HomePod this year, the smart speaker market as a whole is booming. According to new research from NPR and Edison Research, one in six Americans now own some sort of smart speaker – up 128 percent compared to January 2017… The holiday shopping season, as TechCrunch notes, seems to have played a major role in the growth of the smart speaker market....