Verizon is feeling the competitive heat. The nation’s largest wireless carrier suffered a decline in the first quarter and warned that its earnings growth would be at the lower end of its previous expectations.  Verizon lost 292,000 consumer postpaid phone subscriptions, the metric used by the industry as an indicator of success. In a Friday press …

We were pretty sure Google’s first smartwatch would be called the Pixel Watch, and it’s pretty much confirmed now that the tech giant has trademarked “Pixel Watch.”  Google registered the trademark days ago, on April 19, and filed it to cover the smartwatch and accessories like cases, straps, bands and “wearable computers in the nature of smartwatches” just to be …

Seeking out ethical shopping opportunities from the start can help the environment and boost small businesses. Shopping ethically means buying things that are made from organic materials, cruelty-free and by fair trade companies. It also means avoiding products that aren’t ethical or sustainable — such as those made by a company has unsafe working conditions. By shopping ethically, you can …

AT&T’s first 5G device was a Netgear hotspot, but since that time — and a brief Netgear device in 2020 — it’s been fairly quiet on new portable data offerings. That seems set to change on Friday as the nation’s third-largest carrier is adding two new Netgear offerings to its lineup.  Called the Nighthawk M6 and Nighthawk M6 Pro, both …

A new Google policy will effectively ban call-recording apps from the Play Store starting next month. Under the change, spotted earlier by Ars Technica, call recording will no longer be allowed via Google‘s accessibility APIs. It’s part of the tech giant’s ongoing crackdown on apps that use its accessibility APIs as technical workarounds, rather than for accessibility reasons.  Since the …

A few weeks ago, Samsung released its new line of S22 phones, the most recent entry in the Galaxy series to date. But even if you’re not looking to upgrade to the latest and greatest Android on the market, you can still benefit from a new model on the shelves. A new phone means a price drop on the previous …

If you’re looking for a way to clean up your many, many open browser tabs, Google has a helpful grouping feature in its set of Chrome tools. The feature, called tab groups, lets you group open websites together with one click, and label them with a custom name and color. You can even move and reorder the groups to your …

Zoom wants to make it easier for users to get attention in meetings. The company’s ubiquitous videoconferencing platform now has a gesture-recognition feature in its desktop app that’ll display a thumbs-up emoji when you make the gesture on camera and a raised-hand icon when you raise your hand.  The feature has been part of Zoom’s app for iPhone since last summer but …

German blog site TechnikNews has published what it says are images and specs of Sony’s anticipated WH-1000XM5 headphones. The next iteration of Sony’s top noise-canceling headphones will launch very soon, TechnikNews reported, citing an unnamed retail source. A follow-up to Sony’s WH-1000XM4 headphones, which came out in 2020, the WH-1000XM5 headphones will reportedly come in black and silver versions, have a …

A day after AT&T reported earnings for its first quarter, Jeff McElfresh, CEO of communications, has been named the carrier’s chief operating officer. In 2019, McElfresh, who had been working on 5G initiatives, assumed the role of CEO of communications. McElfresh was named COO in an internal message, as Fierce Wireless first reported and AT&T confirmed to CNET.   Several other executives …