March, 2017

• 9 March

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  Are you a T-Mobile customer and worried that you’re burning through your bucket of monthly mobile data? Perhaps this will help you breathe a little easier. The carrier has raised its throttling limbo bar by a few inches, to 30GB per monthly billing, a cycle up from 28GB. T-Mobile-focused website TMOnews reported that this unpublicized …

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• 9 March

  How to print from a Chromebook

  

  There’s no shortage of myths and misconceptions regarding Google’s Chrome OS. Most commonly found on a slew of Chromebooks, Chrome OS is more than a glorified browser. Under the hood, it offers file management, standalone apps, access to the Google Play Store and, yes, printing. To get started you’ll need to go through the Cloud Print process for the printer …

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• 9 March

  LG G6 vs G5: Are the changes worth the upgrade?

  

  Now playing: Watch this: LG G6 vs. LG G5: What’s new? 2:09 LG has given its latest flagship phone, the G6, a major makeover. But the sleek new look of the G6 comes at the expense of a few useful features we will miss from last year’s G5. How does the G6 stack up against the old G5? Let us …

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• 9 March

  AT&T 911 outage service is restore FCC investigation

  

  AT&T said it has restored 911 service to customers who were unable to place emergency calls from their phones. The outage hit some parts of Texas, Indiana and other states in the Midwest, law enforcement authorities and government agencies reported Wednesday. “Service has been restored for wireless customers affected by an issue connecting to 911,” said a company spokesman. Service …

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• 9 March

  Google Pixel owners with big mic problems aren’t hearing things

  

  It turns out there’s an actual reason some owners of Google Pixel and Pixel XL Android handsets have been noticing microphone problems. Almost eight hundred people and counting have posted questions regarding this topic on Google’s Pixel support forum. Google VP of Product and expert Googler Brian Rakowski confirmed with CNET that there is a snafu and it is a …

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• 9 March

  Sling brings Cloud DVR service to Amazon TVs and tablets first

  

  Sling TV just struck a deal with Amazon that gives select customers first dibs on the Sling Cloud DVR service. Classified as Amazon “First Look” subscribers, this subset of Sling TV customers can now cough up another $5 per month to save their recorded TV shows to Sling Cloud DVR servers online. From there they’ll be able to stream these …

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• 9 March

  Facebook takes on Snapchat Stories with vanishing daily videos

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Facebook Messenger copies Snapchat Stories to stay hip 1:46 Social media content that disappears in a puff of smoke after 24 hours is hot right now, and Facebook can’t ignore it. The social network introduced a new feature on Thursday as part of its standalone Messenger app that lets you tell the story of what’s going …

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• 9 March

  LG G6 Power X 2 Huawei P10 Xperia XZ Premium Oppo offers new camera modes like wefies

  

  Now playing: Watch this: The LG G6’s camera has a few new tricks 2:08 Hello, millennials? The phone world is calling with a bunch of Insta-worthy camera tech that it wants you to adopt right now. One of the quieter themes of this year’s Mobile World Congress, the biggest phone show on the planet, was the phone industry trying to …

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• 9 March

  Online ‘flaming’ insurance introduced in Japan

  

  Ever felt the brute force of social media’s scrutiny and ridicule? This insurance company wants to help. Japanese company Sompo is offering “enjo” insurance (flaming insurance), reports Rocket News, which covers people and organisations against their name being marred online by mishaps or rumours. Sompo will fork out money for the insured person/company to run media campaigns in their defense …

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• 9 March

  How to keep your Chromebook from falling asleep

  

  I don’t employ a Chromebook as my primary computer, so I view Chrome OS limitations as virtues. I love the simplicity. It’s quick and responsive, and its updates are the opposite of oppressive; they occur infrequently and when they do, they happen nearly instantaneously. You could say I skipped past the five stages of Chromebook acceptance and went directly to …

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