Thought all you needed to get a 4K TV working is HDMI 2.0? Guess again. The next generation of content protection is called HDCP 2.2, and not only is it not backwards compatible, many new 4K devices don’t even support it. So it’s possible that the 4K TV you bought last year, or even the …
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Samsung’s first bendable TV. Samsung In the market for a TV that you can bend into a flat or curved shape? Samsung now has something right up your alley, at least if you live in Korea. In a post on its Korean Samsung Tomorrow page, the company revealed that it will introduce a bendable TV for sale in its home …
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CNET The Senate has joined the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission in chastising the four top US wireless carriers for skimming money from customers. In a lengthy report (PDF) released by Senate Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) on Wednesday, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile are accused of a practice known as “cramming,” in which wireless carriers allow mystery …
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United Driven by the popularity of peer-to-peer, Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb are some of the most popular apps users choose for travel and transportation, according to a report published Wednesday. Given the rise of apps aimed at travelers, app analytics company App Annie decided to take a deep dive into this specific category of apps and break them into more …
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Sprint CEO Dan Hesse speaking at an event in Chicago in June. Marguerite Reardon/CNET Sprint returned to a profit in the fiscal first quarter, a rare bit of positive news amid its tough turnaround. The nation’s third-largest wireless carrier by subscriber base continued to lose customers in its core Sprint and prepaid arms, posting a net loss of 220,000 subscribers …
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Virgin Mobile Virgin Mobile’s new prepaid program will give its customers some serious options. The prepaid arm, a unit of Sprint, unveiled Virgin Mobile Custom on Wednesday, a new offering that allows customers to control on a granular level how many minutes and text messages and how much data they want on their plan — settings that can each be …
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Now playing: Watch this: Use Android Wear as a remote shutter button 2:05 At the moment, there are two ways to use Android Wear to control your smartphone camera. The first is Google’s own method; the second uses a third-party app for much more control. Let’s look at Google’s implementation first. To get started, download the Google Camera app from …
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Samsung is counting on its Galaxy S5 to boost sales. CNET Samsung on Wednesday posted a 25 percent drop in second-quarter operating profits, marking the third straight quarter of profit declines as competition heats up in the smartphone market. The South Korean electronics giant also warned the second half of 2014 would “remain a challenge” as competition in the mobile …
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FreedomPop has some good deals on tablets, but you can also BYO Sprint-ready model. Either way: free service! FreedomPop FreedomPop, the company best known for offering free mobile phone service, is getting into the tablet game. As of this morning, FreedomPop will sell the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 with free, no-contract service, or let you bring your …
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The top-choice upcoming wearables, according to a First Insight survey. First Insight A slew of new wearables are slated to hit shelves within the next few months — everything from the Samsung Simband health tracker platform to the OMsignal smart shirt to the Dash wireless earbuds. In the finicky world of wearables, some of the products will please crowds while …
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Move over BlackBerry. The iPhone is head to Ford town. Josh Miller/CNET The iPhone is muscling out the BlackBerry at yet another major organization. A Ford spokeswoman told Bloomberg this week that the automaker will replace BlackBerry devices with iPhones for about 3,300 employees before the year is over. Further, the flip phones used by 6,000 more workers will be …
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Dr. Christopher Kaeding performs ACL surgery and transmits the progress to a Google Hangout. Ohio State University Scalpel. Forceps. Needle-holder. These are common tools that all surgeons-in-training must familiarize themselves with. But doctors learning to become cardiothoracic surgeons at Stanford University Medical School will have to add a new one to that list: Google Glass. Google has partnered with live-streaming …
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Symantec The wearable market is currently estimated be worth around $14 billion and it’s on the way up. According to AB Research, by 2018 over 485 million wearable devices will ship each year. Fitness trackers are just one part of the market, but they’re a high profile one and it’s little surprise that they’ve fallen under Symantec’s security microscope. Symantec’s …
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler addresses attendees at the 2014 Cable Show. CNET/Joan Solsman Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, who has been skewered publicly for his handling of the Net neutrality rules rewrite, is showing he can stand up to big broadband companies he thinks are taking advantage of consumers. On Wednesday, he sent a letter to Verizon’s top wireless …
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Sprint CEO Dan Hesse at a company event in June. Sarah Tew/CNET The wireless carriers are only mover faster when it comes to aggressively priced plans and promotions. Yet Sprint remains stuck in the slow lane. Over the last several months, Verizon Wireless piled on more data and cut prices through its , AT&T launched an attractive shared family plan …
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