Sprint CEO Dan Hesse takes the stage at a media event in Chicago June 2014. CNET/Sarah Tew CHICAGO — Sprint is so confident that the hard work it’s put in over the past couple of years to improve its network is bearing fruit that it’s offering customers a 30-day money-back guarantee for trying the service. …

Whyd is a Web app that lets you create playlists of tracks you discover on YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud and other online music repositories. The service also lets you follow other users with similar musical interests and builds you a feed of their tracks. It’s a handy way to keep tabs of the new music you come across during your Internet …

Jay Greene/CNET Production on Apple’s next iPhone is starting to ramp up, according to a new report. Manufacturers Foxconn and Pegatron are on a hiring spree in China to get enough workers to build Apple’s next iPhone, Taiwan’s Economic Daily News is reporting. Hon Hai alone will be recruiting over 100,000 people in China to produce iPhones, according to Economic …

CNET Google Glass has arrived outside the US for the first time. The high-tech spectacles are now on sale in the UK for £1,000 — equivalent to $1,700 in the US or AU$1,800 in Australia. Google Glass is a lightweight frame similar to a pair of glasses without the lenses. Attached to one side a tiny screen sits in front …

Teardown of Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3. iFixit Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 3 tablet may be thinner and lighter than its predecessors, but it’s apparently just as hard to repair. Gadget-repair site iFixit completed a teardown of the new tablet, which went on sale Friday, and gave the device the lowest possible marks for ease of repair, which iFixit calls “repairability.” …

The $1,000 Integra DTR-30.6 will receive Dolby Atmos compatiblity via a firmware update in the fall. Integra Dolby Atmos launched back in 2012 and since then the new surround sound format has been used by an impressive list of movies, including blockbusters like “Gravity”, “Frozen” and “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”. Today, Dolby announced that Atmos is coming to …

HBO Last week, the season four finale of “Game of Thrones” broke all existing torrent records to become the most pirated show ever. And, of course, all the records it broke were previously set by “Game of Thrones” episodes. To put it conservatively, it’s a popular show. Australians have been prolific when it comes to torrenting “Game of Thrones” — …

One of Apple’s prime testers? TeamKobe/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I must have heard more rumors about Apple’s purported, supposed, about-to-go-into-production-maybe watch than about JLo’s latest (or last) lover. So this one ought to be treated with the usual asbestos gloves and long grilling tongs. However, word has it that Kobe Bryant, he of the gimpy body and the Los …

SBS’s HbbTV app overlays content options onto broadcast TV. SBS If you’ve been wondering when Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV — better known as HbbTV — was coming to Australia the answer is that it’s already here, at least in beta form. (If you’re actually wondering what HbbTV actually is, try our primer over here.) SBS has launched the HbbTV version …

At the unveiling of T-Mobile’s “Music Freedom” offering, CEO John Legere is flanked by DJ Ryan Lewis (left) and Rapper Ben “Macklemore” Haggerty of the hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. Mat Hayward/Getty Images for T-Mobile In the same city on the same day, two companies made their bid to further their interest in the wireless industry. Amazon, an outsider …

Genelec G One and F One Genelec I love desktop speakers — correction — I love great-sounding desktop speakers. Decent ones start around $200 a pair, and my reference Adam Audio F5s run $500 for a pair. Desktop speakers are designed to be listened to from three to six feet away, and when you’re that close, you hear more of …

Samsung’s new Android Wear device will build on its Gear 2 Neo (left) and Galaxy Gear smartwatches. CNET Google’s wearables push is about to get a big boost. Samsung plans to introduce its first Android Wear device at Google’s developer conference next week, people familiar with the matter told CNET. The wearable will be a smartwatch, much like the Gear …

T-Mobile CEO John Legere at the company’s Uncarrier event. James Martin/CNET SEATTLE — A few hours after Amazon unveiled the Fire Phone, I sat down with T-Mobile CEO John Legere, just ahead of his own crosstown “Uncarrier” event. Legere had spent the previous day firing off tweets railing against what was then a rumored partnership between AT&T and Amazon. He …

Burlingham/Shutterstock Fed up of searching for bars on your phone? Soon you won’t need a signal to make calls and texts as EE and Three announce they’ll soon let you make calls over Wi-Fi. EE’s Wi-Fi calling, which the network says will give you “higher quality and a greater degree of reliability” than third party apps such as Skype, will …

Fire walk with me. James Martin/CNET Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy probably aren’t shaking in their boots after the much-anticipated announcement of Amazon’s smartphone, dubbed the Fire Phone . The new kid on the phone block sports some high-end specs and interesting features (3D images and maps), but it faces a battle to make its mark against entrenched rivals, especially …