AT&T may have overshadowed T-Mobile’s earnings announcement, but the Un-carrier had the last laugh. T-Mobile was forced to reschedule its third-quarter earnings conference call on Monday after AT&T abruptly scheduled its own call to discuss its earnings results, which it released Saturday right after announcing an $85.4 billion deal to acquire Time Warner. But while …
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This is part of CNET’s “Tech Enabled” series about the role technology plays in helping the disability community. Giora Livne missed out on the smartphone revolution. In 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs strutted onto a stage and unveiled the iPhone, which would dramatically change how everyone interacts with mobile devices. Well, not everyone. That same year, Livne, a former electrical …
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As the US presidential election rages on, President Barack Obama took the time to return to Jimmy Kimmel Live’s beloved “Mean Tweets” on Tuesday night. The segment has celebrities read out and respond to insults hurled at them on Twitter. Donald Trump, himself famous for mean tweets, eventually came up at the end of the two-minute clip. “President Obama will …
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So you decided to save money and get the 32GB version of the iPhone 7 (instead of 128GB or that 256GB monster) and now you’re wondering if you’re on the short end of the performance stick. Well, technically, you are. Lower-capacity storage chips tend to perform slightly slower than higher-capacity ones. It has to do with the number of parallel …
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The new Google Pixel phone has a super camera, with snappy performance and image quality that beats Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus overall. So how did Google do it? A lot of the success comes from a technology Google calls HDR+ that blends multiple photos into one to overcome common problems with mobile phone photography. Knowing that photography is a top-three …
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Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 has one more transportation agency against it. Amtrak announced on Twitter that it is prohibiting passengers from bringing the beleaguered smartphone onto its trains, joining the FAA in banning the device from planes. An Amtrak spokesperson told CNET this: “The safety of our passengers and employees is paramount. Effective immediately, Samsung Galaxy Note 7 cell phones …
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Apple says counterfeit power products constitute a threat to consumer safety. Jack Taylor, Getty Images That shiny new Lightning cable you bought through Amazon for you iPhone? Good chance it’s a fake, according to Apple. In a lawsuit filed earlier this week, the iPhone maker said Mobile Star LLC and 50 unnamed defendants had infringed on its trademarks and copyrights …
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Is Yahoo the shot in the arm that Verizon needs? That’s a debatable sentiment. In the past few weeks, Yahoo — which Verizon is planning to acquire for $4.8 billion — drew the kind of headlines that make you cringe. It suffered what could be the biggest hack of all time, coughing up the account information of at least 500 …
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Thanks to the folks at Uniqfind, you’ll soon be able to make your iPhone look like an exploded Samsung Galaxy Note 7. We’re not sure it’s the best way to spend $25, but we suspect some iPhone fanboys will take some perverse pleasure in needling Samsung fanboys with the makeover. Uniqfind’s marketing the skin — composed of back and front …
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The Mail app didn’t get the overhaul that Messages did with iOS 10, but it still received an update with a few changes that might be tripping you and your inbox up. If you are less than thrilled with Mail after making the move to iOS 10, these two fixes might help. Problem 1: Tiny text When I first updated …
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