Apple’s battery replacements still havn’t made everyone happy
Late last year, Apple admitted that it has been throttling performance on older iPhones with worn-out batteries. The admission won Apple a legion of bad …
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Apple beat Samsung in the most important three months of the year
Apple’s long-awaited earnings were finally released yesterday, and the company once again proved that analysts don’t know everything. Despite pessimism about iPhone sales going into …
Canada’s embarrassingly bad data plans are another reason to hate the T-Mobile-Sprint merger
As you may have heard over the weekend, T-Mobile and Sprint have finally finished their years-long courtship and agreed to tie the knot. The two …
Cambridge Analytica is shutting down
Cambridge Analytica, the data firm at the heart of the Facebook privacy scandal and a company that some credit for Donald Trump’s election victory, is …
Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have 30 days to kill warranty stickers or the government will sue
Last month, the FTC said in a statement that warranty-void-if-removed stickers, which are endemic on all sorts of electronic devices, are basically worthless and also …
Comcast is only increasing internet speeds for customers who also pay for cable
As we’ve documented ad nauseam before, cable companies are struggling with falling profits due largely to cord cutting. With over a million customers jumping ship …
Shocker: Cable companies had yet another terrible quarter thanks to cord-cutting
2017 was a bad year for the pay TV industry. Cable and satellite providers saw subscribers leave in record numbers, and despite efforts to blame …
iOS 11.4 beta 3 is available for download right now
It seems like just yesterday that Apple finally pushed the iOS 11.3 upgrade to the general population and began work on iOS 11.4, but the …
Investors are finding new reasons to love Apple now that the iPhone is fading
In the leadup to the iPhone X reveal last year, analysts were visibly salivating at the prospect of an iPhone upgrade “supercycle,” a tidal wave …
Lawsuit blames rising smartphone prices on Samsung price-fixing crucial components
It’s no secret that smartphone prices have been creeping upwards for the last few years. Some analysts blame the creep on manufacturers using increasingly expensive …
Tesla is burning so much cash it could go broke by the end of the year
Tesla is not much like any other car company. It’s eschewed dealerships, the usual pre-production testing, meetings, management structure, and allegedly worker safety in an …
Everything that’ll change for Sprint customers now that T-Mobile is taking over
After a courtship that lasted longer than the last three seasons of The Bachelorette, T-Mobile and Sprint have finally made their union official. The boards of …
What the ‘new’ T-Mobile network will look like
In case you didn’t hear, T-Mobile and Sprint made it official yesterday. The two smaller wireless networks are becoming one giant behemoth that will be able …
Sprint and T-Mobile are already preparing for an epic showdown with government regulators
Midday Sunday, T-Mobile and Sprint announced that the boards of both companies have approved a merger deal that will take the US from four wireless …
Comcast’s wireless service is such a good deal it’s losing the company money
Comcast recently started offering its own wireless service under the brand of Xfinity Mobile. The actual mobile service is provided by Verizon, and the plans …
Cable TV prices have been soaring for 20 years, which probably explains why everyone’s cutting the cord
Cable TV is undeniably expensive. With the average bundle sitting around $105, it costs substantially more than a cell plan and some people’s electricity. But …
High-roller investor with a whole 12 shares of TSLA wants Elon gone
Unlike investing all your money in Bitcoin, or stuffing it under the mattress, being a shareholder comes with a few perks. Among them is the …
Report: T-Mobile and Sprint have agreed on a price for the nightmare merger
Sprint and T-Mobile have agreed on pricing for a deal that would value Sprint at $24 billion, according to Bloomberg. If the reports of the details …
Apple’s rumored VR headset sounds so much better than anything else
Rumors have been swirling for nearly five years that Apple is working on some kind of augmented reality or virtual reality wearable device. We’ve been …
2018 will be the year that great TVs finally become cheap
The TV industry is always looking for its next big thing. Back in 2013, it was going to be “real” 3-D, an idea that quickly …
Amazon Prime is getting more expensive
During its Q1 2018 earnings call, Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky told reporters that Amazon is increasing the price of its annual subscription from $99 per year …
Amazon shares soar after monster earnings report
Amazon’s shares soared over 6 percent in after-hours trading, following a substantial earnings beat and a forecast for current-quarter growth that would defy all expectations. …
5G isn’t going to be much faster than LTE when it launches next year
Wireless networks and smartphone makers are gearing up to launch the world’s first 5G networks early next year. Chipmakers have already unveiled their first 5G …
This bad lip-reading of Mark Zuckerberg’s Senate testimony is so much better than the real thing
Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg completed Step 7 of the Tech Company Scandal Apology Tour by trekking to Capitol Hill to be interrogated by lawmakers. …
Apple partner TSMC has started production of next-gen chips that will power Apple’s new iPhone
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, a company that has fabricated the A-series chips in Apple’s iPhones and iPads for years, has officially started volume production of …
Best Buy is taking $150 off some iPhone X models, but there’s a lot of fine print
The iPhone X’s most-talked-about feature hasn’t been the notch, or Face ID, or that ridiculously good camera: it’s actually been the pricetag. While fears that …
No, Apple didn’t deliver a ‘KO punch’ to Android with the iPhone X
Whether the iPhone X is a major win for Apple or a tremendous flop is one of the most hotly-debated questions in the technology industry …
Report: Huawei is now under criminal investigation in the US
So far, 2018 has been a bad year for Chinese technology companies in the US. January started with the news that the US government had …
Any sale that gets you a 2018 MacBook Pro for less than $1,000 is a good deal
The MacBook Pro, despite all my jesting, is a very good laptop. If someone gave me one (and a small mountain of dongles) I would …
This is what Facebook won’t let you post
Despite the fact that Facebook is the largest social network in the world, it often operates as a nearly opaque box. There’s no oversight of …
