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Apple discounts, generally speaking, are rare, but they are currently abundant at Best Buy by way of trade-in offers, which can help bring down the prices of a MacBook Air, iPad Air and Apple Watch. There’s also a few iPhone deals worth investigating if you are in the market for a new phone. Of course, the usual …

The frenemies have made up. Apple and Qualcomm settled a two-year-old battle over patent licensing on Tuesday, a reconciliation that ended a trial that had started just a day earlier. The companies, which had been fighting in courts in China, Germany and other countries, in addition to the US, will end all worldwide litigation. Cupertino, California-based Apple will make an unspecified payment …

Lawyers for Apple, its contract manufacturers and Qualcomm made their pitches Tuesday morning to a jury about why their side was right in the licensing dispute. But before the opening arguments even finished, the parties had reached a settlement.  So marked the end of a battle that had the potential to change the mobile industry. Apple had accused Qualcomm of anticompetitive …

Everyone I know hates cable TV, simply because it’s so expensive. We’re all sick of rates that seem to climb by the month and sick of paying for channels we don’t watch. So what’s the alternative? Cut the cord, of course, and ditch cable in favor of cheaper alternatives. Ah, but are they really cheaper? If you’ve looked at CNET’s …

True story: Just last night I fired up my basement desktop PC, the one I use for gaming and VR. I hadn’t used it in over a month while the basement was being remodeled. I couldn’t believe how long it took to boot. How long Steam updates took to install. It felt so slow, even though it’s stocked with one …

A pilot, a former baseball pitcher and retired nurse walk into a bar…  It may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but that’s actually a few of the professions held by the jury members selected for the Apple v. Qualcomm trial in San Diego. Those nine people will decide the fate of Qualcomm’s licensing business in its battle …

Processor progress is harder to come by these days, but Samsung says it’ll build chips next year that will give you a bit more battery life or a little more speed. Through improvements charted by Moore’s Law, chip electronic components called transistors get steadily smaller. On Monday, Samsung said it’s taken the next step along the Moore’s Law path, shrinking …

Maybe you forgot your iPhone ($899 at Amazon) passcode. Maybe a 3-year-old got ahold of your phone and locked you out for a gazillion minutes. Either way, your only hope of using your iPhone again soon might be to restore it. Hopefully you’ve kept up with your iPhone backup reminders. If that’s slipped (no judgment), you’re probably getting “iPhone Not Backed Up” …

When it comes to Apple vs. Qualcomm, the Federal Trade Commission trial in January was just a dress rehearsal. Now it’s time for the real show. The two technology giants meet on Monday in a San Diego courtroom to kick off a five-week, $27 billion trial that’ll determine whether Qualcomm operates a smartphone modem chip monopoly and charges too much …

In late March Apple announced Apple Arcade, a subscription service that allows Apple users to play games across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV devices. Back then Apple promised that 100 exclusive games would be playable out of the gate, games that wouldn’t be available on other subscription services or even other mobile devices. But it looks like that promise may cost them. Apple …