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Sick of your plain white AirPods? Skin ’em, dude

A few weeks back I wrote about Catalyst’s strangely awesome AirPods Case, a protective waterproof cover for the AirPods charging case. Turns out it wasn’t the only new accessory for the AirPods. Like other hot Apple products in the past — even products that are accessories themselves — Apple’s distinctive white ‘buds seem to be spawning an entire cottage industry …

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AT&T revenue down and subscribers fall

With T-Mobile tearing up the wireless industry, what’s a carrier to do? If you’re AT&T, start looking outside the wireless business. AT&T doesn’t want to be known as just a telecom company anymore. It’s using its DirecTV Now streaming service to take control of what you watch and of how you watch it. AT&T owns one of the key services …

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Galaxy S8 gets Telstra tick of approval for regional 4G

The Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus are already the fastest phones currently available on Telstra’s network, but now that prestige extends all the way out into the bush. Telstra has today confirmed that Samsung‘s two new flagship devices are the first to be certified under the telco’s new 4G Blue Tick rating system. City dwellers won’t necessarily care about …

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No choice appears to be the right choice for T-Mobile customers. The backlash over T-Mobile One — the company’s unlimited data plan — seems like a distant memory. When the carrier in August first unveiled its decision to remove all of its plans in favor of a single unlimited option, it drew heaps of scorn as customers complained that they …

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Verizon Fios launches near

If you live in the northeast, Verizon is the new ticket to blazing internet speeds. The broadband provider is rolling out what it says is the nation’s largest deployment of gigabit internet on Monday. Called Fios Gigabit Connection, it promises download speeds of 940 megabits per second and upload speeds of 880 Mbps. That’s hella fast (though not 1 gigabit …

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Parents, your phone use is annoying your teens

Mums and dads, step away from your phones. It turns out that as much as parents worry about their children’s internet use, children worry about their parents’ habits. Thirty-six percent of children between 11 and 18 have asked their parents to stop checking their mobile devices, according to a survey of 2,000 students and 3,000 parents carried out by nonprofit …

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Unroll.me ‘heartbroken’ after being caught selling user data to Uber

You know what they say: If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. Now some are realising the price they paid for using free inbox clean-up service Unroll.me, after the company opened up about its practice of selling users’ email data. Unroll.me promises to organise your inbox by sorting subscription emails and letting you unsubscribe from the …

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Google Maps now helps you travel abroad like a local

Not understanding a foreign language can be one of the most challenging things about traveling abroad. This can be especially disconcerting when using a service like Google Maps to find a local restaurant or shop only to discover that all the reviews are in a different language. Google Maps has made all this easier with a feature that translates the …

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