On April 28th, 2022 with 23 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: For most of the world, the common practice of "rooting" or "jailbreaking" a phone allows the device's owner to...
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On April 21st, 2022 with 193 comments
New parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, decided to pull the plug on the streaming service after a slow first month. From a report: On March 29, CNN took a...
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On September 12th, 2018 with 142 comments
A new poll of 1,141 teenagers shows that teenagers prefer to text their friends than talk in person. The findings come from Common Sense Media's 2018 Social...
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On August 20th, 2018 with 92 comments
Smartphone cameras are better than ever, but sometimes there's just no substitute for a full-sized DSLR. Unfortunately, it seems that Huawei thinks so, too....
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On May 31st, 2017 with 40 comments
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Mary Meeker delivered her annual rapid-fire internet trends report at Code Conference. Here's the summary: 1....
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On November 17th, 2016 with 60 comments
According to a report from Bloomberg, AOL is firing as many as 500 employees as part of a restructuring plan to focus on mobile, video and data. The move comes...
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On March 31st, 2016 with 173 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Following a report from DSLReports that ATT would be imposing usage caps on the company's U-Verse broadband customers, ATT has...
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On July 29th, 2015 with 92 comments
itwbennett writes: Just days after publication of a flaw in Android's Stagefright, which could allow attackers to compromise devices with a simple MMS message,...
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On September 10th, 2014 with 77 comments
briancox2 writes Amazon has avoided releasing the Amazon Instant Video app that is on Fire and Kindle to the general Android market, even though the app has...
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On September 7th, 2014 with 108 comments
Another good reason to be annoyed by autoplaying videos online: it eats up dataplan allowances, making for some rude surprises. I'm always nervous about data...
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On April 23rd, 2014 with 200 comments
Bennett Haselton writes:
"If you watch a movie or TV show (legally) on your mobile device while away from your home network, it's usually by streaming it on a...
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