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Perhaps it’s a move to nudge me toward Safari and its fancy new favicons. Or maybe it’s just a bug. Whatever the case may be, the beta of MacOS Mojave has broken a small but important part of Chrome: Checkboxes. Without checkboxes, I can’t, for example, conduct my online banking in Chrome or use CNET’s …

Apple’s Business Chat feature first launched alongside iOS 11.3 in March. The feature gives iMessage users the option to contact and interact with businesses directly in the Messages app on an iOS device.  Since then, more companies have integrated Business Chat, allowing users to contact customer service, place orders, or ask a concierge to do some gift research on their …

Samsung’s latest ad campaign for the Galaxy S9 is poking Apple where it hurts — right in the dongle.  (In other words, they’re making fun of the extra adapters and cables that Apple users increasingly need to access “legacy” devices like wired headphones, SD card slots and other cables.) While the ad is definitely a parody of the Apple Store …

The European Commission slapped Google with a record fine of 4.34 billion euros ($5 billion) on Wednesday over antitrust violations related to the Android mobile operating system. The European Union is concerned that Google’s agreements with phone makers such as Huawei, Samsung and LG put those companies at a disadvantage because they’re completely dependent on Android. The agreements stipulate that …

It’s becoming clearer every day — the 2018 MacBook Pro “butterfly switch” keyboard was designed to resist dust and debris, and thus avoid the sticky key issue that sometimes plagued its predecessor.  Why would we say that, when Apple explicitly told us that the keyboard wouldn’t include any dust/debris fixes? For one thing, MacRumors reports that Apple is telling its own Canadian …

HMD Global, the licensee of the Nokia brand for phones, announced the Nokia X5 Thursday. It’s an Android Oreo phone that aims to bring a little iPhone X feel to a midrange device.  The 5.86-inch phone uses a notched 1,520×720-pixel resolution display giving it a 19:9 screen ratio, similar to what you’d find on Apple’s current flagship and several other …

Fingerprint-smudged smartphones may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to new technology from glass maker Corning.  Handset vendors like Apple and Samsung have been incorporating more and more glass in their phone designs over the past couple of years. While devices originally had glass just over the front touchscreen, designs now contain glass that curves around the edges …

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is writing the book that will give an inside look at his leadership strategy and the company’s culture, Netflix confirmed Wednesday. Business writer Erin Meyer will be co-author, and Penguin Press plans to publish it sometime next year. CNN first reported the news. Netflix’s culture is something the company has extensively defined and publicized. Its “culture deck,” a …

Klutzes, rejoice. Your next smartphone should be able to survive multiple drops. On Wednesday, glass maker Corning unveiled its newest technology, Gorilla Glass 6, which it says should survive repeated drops from heights of 1 meter (3.28 feet). In its tests, the glass lasted through 15 drops, twice as many as Gorilla Glass 5. Normal glass failed on the first …

There are over 130 million iPhone users in China, and their data is now being stored by a Chinese government-run company. China Telecom, a state-owned carrier in China, is now in control of storing Chinese users’ iCloud data, it announced on Tuesday. It takes this duty from Guizhou-Cloud Big Data, who controversially gained operation control over Apple’s iCloud business in …