June, 2015

• 20 June

  When are expensive cables worth it?

  

  Sarah Tew/CNET There are few things that come in as wide a variety of prices as cables and interconnects. HDMI cables, for instance, can run from $1 to over $1,000 for the same length. USB cables can be similarly cheap or high-end. Speaker cable is even more extreme, from pennies per foot, to hundreds of …

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• 19 June

  That Sprint unlimited data plan? It might see a price hike

  

  Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure hints that the unlimited plan may one day be eliminated. Troy Thomas/Sprint Sprint’s unlimited data plan may get pricier in the near future. Sprint may raise prices for unlimited data in the latter part of the year, CEO Marcelo Claure said in an interview with Kansas City, Mo.-based TV station KSHB. Related stories FCC to fine …

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• 19 June

  Crave giveaway: Three custom photo products from Collage.com

  

  Collage.com Congratulations to Christopher C. of Dothan Ala., for winning a T-fal OptiGrill in last week’s giveaway and to David D. of West Plains, Mo., for winning two educational robots from Wonder Workshop the week before that. Got a naked wall in need of some decoration? Collage.com, which makes a wide range of customized photo products, is offering a free …

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• 19 June

  Marvel brings 12,000 single

  

  Marvel Zap! Bam! Pow! That’s the (admittedly made-up) sound of Marvel Comics breaking loose of Comixology and landing in Amazon’s Kindle Store, where Kindle tablet owners can now purchase over 12,000 single issues. Some clarification: Marvel has long had a relationship with digital-distribution platform Comixology, and Comixology’s apps have long made those comics available via Android, iOS and Kindle apps. …

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• 19 June

  Get an Acer Iconia 8

  

  Acer It’s not Tuesday, but when a good tablet deal comes around, alliteration be damned! (Sorry, “Tablet Tuesday”…) Continuing the discussion from earlier this month — can a $37.99 tablet possibly be any good? — Acer’s eBay outlet store is offering the refurbished Acer Iconia Tab A1-840-131U 8-inch tablet for $59.99 shipped. It normally runs $89.99 — already a pretty …

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• 19 June

  Google to shut the door on ‘revenge porn’

  

  Getty Images Sexually explicit images shared without the subject’s consent will soon start vanishing from Google’s search results. The new policy, which will go into effect in the coming weeks, is intended to combat a practice known as “revenge porn,” a dark side of the ease with which information can be shared across the wide-open terrain of the Internet and …

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• 19 June

  Amazon looks to improve customer

  

  Amazon says its new tool learns which customer reviews have helped shoppers the most and gives those write-ups more visibility. Lionel Bonaventure/Getty Images Amazon is rolling out a big change to its customer reviews system in the US, introducing a new machine-learning platform it developed in-house to surface newer and more helpful reviews. “The system will learn what reviews are …

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• 19 June

  Boost promises to cut Cricket, MetroPCS bills in half

  

  Boost’s latest smartphone, the LG G Stylo, features a 5.7-inch display. Boost Mobile Boost Mobile, taking a page from its parent company, Sprint, is offering a limited-time deal for prospective customers. Called the Slash Your Payment in Half promotion, it’s the prepaid equivalent to Sprint’s tier-one deal. Related Links Sprint halves rate plans for AT&T and Verizon defectors Sprint secures …

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• 19 June

  WTF? President Obama to get grilled by podcaster Marc Maron

  

  Maron in CNET’s studios. CNET President Obama has gone on late-night talk shows, been ribbed by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and even endured an appearance on ” Between Two Ferns.” But his next non-traditional political media appearance has us all saying “WTF?” Comic Marc Maron, host of the ever-popular “WTF With Marc Maron” podcast that revolves around in-depth, often …

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• 19 June

  Enable icons for most

  

  Nicole Cozma/CNET When you open a new tab in Chrome Beta on your Android device, you’ll see small boxes that represent the sites you visit most frequently. Each box is supposed to display a snapshot of the website, and provide a link to let you quickly access it. Unfortunately, the previews haven’t been working correctly since several updates ago. As …

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