T-Mobile CEO John Legere will get his Macklemore and Ryan Lewis fix after all. T-Mobile said Thursday that it’s sponsoring a special performance by the Grammy-nominated artists for 1,400 Los Angeles-area fans. The concert will be held on January 23, with tickets to go on sale on January 17. Related stories When Does My Phone …

China Operating System, or COS as it’s become known, is poised to take on foreign-born operating systems that are gaining control in China. That’s the word from China’s Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which, along with the Chinese government and company Shanghai Liantong, announced COS on Thursday to customers across the country. China has long taken …

When is a phablet not a phablet? When it’s a VoiceTab! HP is planning to make its voice heard in the mobile game with the new HP Slate6 VoiceTab and HP Slate7 VoiceTab. The Slate6 has a 6-inch screen, while the Slate7 — you guessed it — is a 7-inch tablet. The Slate6 boasts a 720p screen, and the two VoiceTabs …

It’s pretty easy to catch reruns of “The Simpsons,” which in some TV markets air twice daily. But if you want to watch the show on the go, or watch a particular episode, you’re out of luck unless you buy it from your favorite app store. That will change this summer when FX Networks begins streaming all 530(!) episodes of …

Jason Cipriani/CNET Horizon is an app we all wish had existed long ago. The premise is simple: no matter how someone is holding their phone, the app will only record horizontal video. I originally discovered the app while reading a post on TUAW. Some might even view this app as a cure for Vertical Video Syndrome. I know I do. …

Samsung’s much-rumored Galaxy Tab 3 Lite is no longer a rumor. Following a surge of recent leaks, the so-dubbed lighter version of the full Galaxy Tab 3 was finally announced by Samsung on Thursday. Many of the features match those of the current Tab 3, while others have been removed. Overall, Samsung is touting the new Lite edition for its …

Change that light bulb to green and wind up the Official Klaxon! Samsung’s pulled the trigger on the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite, officially announcing the budget tablet after it was put on sale by a Polish retailer yesterday. Glancing down the official specs list, there are few surprises, but it seems highly likely this will be Samsung’s cheapest tablet yet. …

New research data from the NPD Group shows that Samsung and Apple have a stranglehold on the US smartphone market, making up 68 percent of all phone sales. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Apple alone accounted for 42 percent of the market in Q4 2013, up from 35 percent last year. Samsung, meanwhile, had slightly slower growth, up from 22 percent to …

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 3 Lite continues to get exposure ahead of any official announcement. A user manual for the allegedly upcoming tablet now appears on Samsung’s Polish Web site. The Web page displays a model number of SM-T110, which reportedly refers to a Wi-Fi-only variant of the Tab 3 Lite. Indeed, the manual itself explains how to set up Wi-Fi …

BlackBerry is seeking to seduce Android apps onto BlackBerry phones, with reports suggesting the struggling smart phone company is sounding out the developers behind apps made for the rival Google Play store.  Good e-reader reports that several developers attending the recent CES technology trade show in Las Vegas confided they have been approached by BlackBerry to stick their existing Android …

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday struck down rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in 2010 meant to protect the openness of the Internet. What does this ruling — and the principles of Net neutrality that it affects — mean to the average Internet user? While the legal arguments may seem complicated …

Hewlett-Packard’s Chromebook 11 is now available with LTE — and can be purchased at Best Buy stores. The 11.6-inch laptop (see CNET review) running Google’s Chrome OS is priced at $379 at Best Buy, where it is beginning to show up in physical stores, as first reported by Liliputing. That’s $100 more than the Wi-Fi-only version but still relatively cheap …

The Motorola Moto G now has a Google Play Edition. The budget smart phone now comes with stock Android software just like Google’s own Nexus 5, only cheaper. The one drawback is that it’s not available in the UK. The Moto G Google Play Edition, available now from the Android online store in certain countries, features pure, unadulterated Android 4.4 software, shorn …

Regardless of how you hold your phone, this app will automatically record videos in landscape orientation. Be gone, vertical video. (Screenshot by CBSi) While it may be the most comfortable way to hold your phone, shooting video in portrait orientation makes for some pretty unattractive footage. If you try and integrate this footage into an editing program or even just …

Samsung’s not giving up on Windows Phone, with a new mobile boasting Full HD resolution showing up in a Bluetooth certification document, spotted by Samsung fan blog Sammy Today. As well as the desirable 1,920×1,080-pixel screen, the phone uses Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser — so it must be a Windows Phone, because you can’t get IE on anything else. Its …