Sprint is eating everyone’s dust. The nation’s third-largest wireless carrier by subscriber base sank to the bottom of a survey conducted by Consumer Reports over cell phone service. Sprint scored “dismal marks” in value, voice, text messaging, and 4G reliability, according to Consumer Reports’ survey released Thursday. Sprint ranked No. 2 behind Verizon Wireless a …

As most teenagers know, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” opens in movie theaters tomorrow. Just in time for the release, Lionsgate and Reliance Games have unveiled a movie tie-in for smartphones and tablets. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Panem Run is available now for iOS and Android. The game, fittingly, is an endless runner in the style of Temple …

Tablets are expected to be one of the hottest gadget gift items for Holiday 2013. And Verizon Wireless has a new daily data plan that will get customers hooked up to the company’s 4G LTE network for $5 a day. Verizon Wireless On Thursday, Verizon Wireless announced the introduction of a new $5-a-day data plan for customers with tablets and …

Apple’s A7 chips will feel some 64-bit heat from Intel and Android next year. Intel is readying a 64-bit Bay Trail Atom platform for Android, according to Hermann Eul, Intel’s general manager, mobile and communications group, speaking at the company’s investor day on Thursday. “It’s not only about Windows 64-bit, we’ve been talking about Android as well,” Eul said. An …

LG may be shifting resources into areas it believes it can be more successful in, such as TVs, and out of its smartphone business. The LG G2. (Credit: CBS Interactive) The report comes via Korean IT news outlet ET News, which says that the shift in resources will reduce the workforce in the smartphone division, although not the overall R&D …

LG has plans to shift its resources and focus on businesses in which it believes it can be more successful, according to a new report. Korean IT news outlet ET News reported on Wednesday that LG has started to shift some resources from its smartphone operation to its television business. The main thrust of the move is to focus on …

We’re always hearing about rip-off Britain, but according to new numbercrunching of prices, our green and pleasant land is actually one of the cheapest places in Europe to buy an Apple iPhone. MobileUnlocked has ranked the world’s nations by the price you have to pay for a 5S in each country. An iPhone 5S costs £549 here in Blighty, placing us …

If you’re looking for a super-cheap phone that can run WhatsApp, the spectacularly popular instant messaging app, Nokia’s Asha 501 could be the very fellow for you. A new update to Nokia’s budget blower has given its interface a lick of paint and enabled more sophisticated apps, including the IM giant. Here’s what the new app looks like: The Asha …

AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile all vowed to stop billing their customers for spam text messages that come from third parties, according to Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell, who worked on the initiative with attorneys general from 44 other states. The carriers will no longer charge for what’s known as commercial “premium short messaging service,” or PSMS, which is the main …

Now playing: Watch this: HTC One Max joins the phablet fray 2:08 Verizon on Thursday quietly announced that the HTC One Max has joined its smartphone roster. Priced at a whopping $299 with a two-year service agreement, the equally-whopping 5.9-inch HTC One Max is a bigger version of the 2013 flagship device, the HTC One, but with the addition of …

A jury in San Francisco has decided that Samsung should pay Apple US$290 million in damages for its patent infringement, bringing the total award from Korea to Cupertino to around US$930 million. (Credit: CBSi) Despite Samsung claiming it should only have to pay around US$52 million, saying that Apple doesn’t own a patent on “beautiful and sexy”, the jury ruled …

Updated November 2013! In television technology trifecta of LED LCD, plasma, and LCD, which comes out on top? The subject of countless debates and diatribes, the better question is: which works best? Or more precisely, which works best for you? When you cut through the hype and the fanboys, each tech has different benefits and costs. So to help you …

LG is working on a fix that will stop its smart TVs sharing individual customers’ viewing habits and private media file names and sending the data to LG servers. One of LG’s smart TVs. (Credit: CNET) The worrying information was first made public by UK blogger Doctor Beet, who published a blog post with his findings, using the Wireshark packet …

Sainsbury’s is ditching online sales of DVDs, books and games for digital downloads across the board. But with no high-definition video on offer, Sainsbury’s must be off its trolley taking on Tesco’s Blinkbox. Sainsbury’s will now only sell and rent digital downloads for films, music and books, with actual physical media and products limited to stores. The supermarket can still …

Qualcomm on Wednesday unveiled several new processors designed to widen its lead in the mobile market. The first, the Snapdragon 805, is geared at mobile devices and 4K, Ultra HD TVs. The chip is part of the company’s high-end mobile chip line and was designed to “deliver the highest-quality mobile video, imaging, and graphics experiences.” Qualcomm noted it’s the company’s …