T-Mobile CEO John Legere has a new program to lure in customers with poor credit. YouTube/screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET T-Mobile is trying to reel in more smartphone customers through a new program that doesn’t care about your credit score. In a blog post and video issued Thursday, T-Mobile CEO John Legere described what he called …
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Using Yahoo as your default search on Firefox? Google has tweeted instructions on how to switch to, well, Google Search. Google is trying to persuade users of the Firefox browser to ditch Yahoo as their default search engine. In November, Firefox-maker Mozilla cut a deal in which Yahoo would take over in the US as the “default search experience on …
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iOS 8 adoption has slown down this month. Apple The uptake of iOS 8 appears to have stalled. Updating its App Store Distribution page on Tuesday, Apple pegged iOS 8’s share at 69 percent, just one point higher than the 68 percent recorded around two weeks ago on January 6. The number doesn’t reveal the full scope of iOS 8 …
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FreedomPop is offering $5-a-month Wi-Fi access via hotspots in the US. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET FreedomPop is launching a service for people always hunting for Wi-Fi on the go. Available as of Wednesday, FreedomPop’s new unlimited Wi-Fi plan gives smartphone and tablet users unlimited talk, text and data for $5 per month, the company announced. The service is accessible through …
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The Apple iPhone 6 (left) and iPhone 6 Plus have won Apple more sales across Asia. Apple Apple has set sales records for itself in Japan, Korea and China courtesy of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, according to Counterpoint Research. In Japan, Apple won 51 percent of all smartphone sales in November, Counterpoint said in a blog post …
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Will Apple crush its previous iPhone sales record? CNET Apple’s big-screened iPhone 6 and 6 Plus may have drummed up overall iPhone shipments as high as 69 million last quarter, based on new analysis from Morgan Stanley. In an investor note released Tuesday, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty offered her firm’s latest prediction for iPhone shipments, upping its previous forecasts …
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It’s no European vacation for Google. Google continues to restrict its “right to be forgotten” requests to the European versions of its search engine, despite increasing pressure to apply those requests globally. “We’ve had a basic approach; we’ve followed it. On this question we’ve made removals Europe-wide, but not beyond,” David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, said at an event …
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T-Mobile CEO John Legere’s aggressive promotions seem to be paying off. Josh Miller/CNET T-Mobile ended 2014 with the best quarter of all four major US carriers — at least in one respect. In a recent survey of mobile phone users, research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) found that T-Mobile scored the highest percentage among major carriers in terms of …
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Apple/USPTO Apple has envisioned a technology that would sync your Touch ID data with other mobile devices, as well as point-of-sale systems, via iCloud. Published on Thursday by the US Patent and Trademark Office, a patent filing called “Finger biometric sensor data synchronization via a cloud computing device and related methods” illustrates a way to record your fingerprints on one …
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BlackBerry hopes its Classic phone will find an audience in India. Josh Miller/CNET In an attempt to boost sales for its Classic smartphone, BlackBerry is taking it to India. The new Classic is now available through the online store Snapdeal at a price tag of 31,990 Indian Rupees (roughly $518), the Times of India reported. Swapdeal and BlackBerry will try …
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