Sprint has one less foe in its ongoing battle over New York sales taxes. The company on Monday released a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing confirming that the SEC has dropped its investigation into the carrier’s collection of sales taxes without attempting to enforce any action. The SEC dropped the investigation last month, according …

Samsung Electronics has broad ambitions for Tizen, an open operating system the company has taken a lead role in developing as it looks to wean itself off its dependence on Android and Google. That’s according to Samsung Electronics co-CEO J.K. Shin, who runs the company’s IT and mobile communications division. In a joint interview with CNET Korea (Korean language) and …

Enter, stranger! 1980s fantasy favourite Knightmare is back, donning the Helmet of Justice and dispatching stars of Harry Potter and Peep Show to the greenscreen dungeon on YouTube today. Ohhhh, naaaasty… The 1980s and 90s Children’s ITV show has been revived for YouTube’s Geek Week, with Peep Show‘s Isy Sutie and Harry Potter star Jessie Cave joining original characters Lord …

Last week, I visited San Francisco for a long-overdue trip to the CNET home office. In anticipation of the four-night stay, I added my new Chromecast to my luggage. (I managed to get in on the first wave of Amazon sales before it quickly sold out.) My thought: I could queue up some Netflix rather than watch the random 20 …

4K isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? 6K. Yes, a Red camera capable of shooting 6K video makes high definition look like a flickbook. The Dragon sensor from cutting-edge camera company Red records video at an eye-poppingly detailed 6,000×3,000-pixel resolution — ten times more than 1080p HD footage. If it was a stills camera, the Red Dragon would be a …

Less than a month after rumors began circulating that HTC was building a phablet to take on Samsung’s Galaxy Note series, images of the purported device have popped up on a Taiwan Web site. Related stories Best VR Headsets of 2022 Your Phone Screen Is Gross. Here’s How to Clean It Without Causing Damage The Metaverse Is on the Way: …

Up until recently the classic, five-speaker home theater setup, with three front speakers — left, center, and right, plus two surround speakers, and a subwoofer — was the de facto home theater standard. According to Dolby, surround speakers should be placed to the sides and slightly behind your couch or main listening position. If you want to step up to …

The 2013 edition of Google’s Nexus 7 tablet. Josh Miller/CNET At the Google press breakfast where the company unveiled the new Nexus 7 — Google’s first product franchise with “the new” Apple-esque branding — the company made sure to highlight the many benefits of the 2013 product compared with its earlier foray into the tablet space. The successor is faster, …

Lost your Android handset again? Don’t worry, it happens to the best of us. And help will soon be at hand. Later this month, Google will release Android Device Manager, which will help you find your phone. If you can’t remember which pub/bar/drinking hole you left it in, Android Device Manager will show your phone’s location on a map in …

Android Jelly Bean keeps jumping up. It accounted for 40 per cent of all active Android devices in July, according to Google. The company’s Android developer dashboard page shows Jelly Bean is now on 40.5 per cent of devices, compared to 37.9 per cent in June. Gingerbread, meanwhile, is on the wane, making up 33.1 per cent, down from 34.1 …

The Magico Ultimate is now in its third revision, and runs close to $600,000 a pair, too bad you didn’t jump on the originals back in 2004, when they were just $229,000! The original and current Ultimate speakers share the same “horns,” the megaphone-like pieces that sit in front of the drivers, but the new speaker has redesigned drivers, crossover …

For a long time, Astrid was considered a go-to task management app for Android users. But with its recent acquisition by Yahoo and the news that it will officially be going away on August 5, fans of the app are likely looking for alternatives. With that in mind, I’ve put together a list of four of my favorite to-do managers …

Motorola’s long-anticipated Moto X phone was unveiled yesterday amid much anticipation: would Google’s ownership craft a new direction for Motorola? Would the phone be able to stand out from the crowd? And would it be sold with a Moto watch? The watch rumor, born out of Motorola’s previous history in smartwatches and, perhaps, the recent mania in watch tech, didn’t …

More than one in five UK smart phone users are dead against 4G, according to new research from industry regulator Ofcom. In a survey of British phone fans, Ofcom found 22 per cent strongly disagreed with the idea of ever paying for 4G — despite already owning an Internet-connected blower. Those might just be refuseniks who never use their smart …

BlackBerry Messenger is in testing for the iPhone and Android phones, with the first members of the public trying out the Android app to chat to BBM buddies without a BlackBerry. It’s still early days, as this first beta test of the Android app only involves BlackBerry employees and some of their friends and family. Meanwhile, the iOS app for Apple …