Articles tagged "Misc"

The Crackables challenge from OnePlus kicks off tomorrow – the grand prize is “the ultimate gaming setup” worth $30,000. How can you win? As early as possible tomorrow morning head over to crackables.oneplus.com on your phone and solve the puzzle...

When the news broke that Apple was the first company to break a $1 trillion valuation, we saw an influx (on various social media) of people making fun of how often its Lightning cables were snapping, leaving customers with no choice but to go out...

T-Mobile and Metro PCS customers have begun receiving notifications about a potential security breach where some personal information could have been compromised. T-Mobile starts by saying that out of “an abundance of caution” it is notifying the...

PC Mag held an interesting survey surrounding the question: Why did you switch platforms (between iOS and Android)? There are countless discussions of people passionately defending one platform over the other and while we sometimes do hear about...

The Australian government has just banned Huawei and ZTE from supplying equipment for the development of its 5G mobile network. The news came out of the blue while Australia officials gave the same reasons as the USA - risks of foreign interference...

Flipkart partnered with First Post to conduct “India’s biggest smartphone survey” and here’s what they found regarding user’s feature preferences and the difference between Gen X and millennials. Be warned that there’s a non-zero chance this is a...

The follow up to Samsung's Odyssey VR headset has just passed through the FCC revealing much of its features. It's called the Odyssey+ and bears the model number XE800ZBA. This suggests a small upgrade over the original Odyssey (XE800ZAA)....

Today, T-Mobile has updated its Unlimited offerings to include a new option called Essentials. This plan would be one step below T-Mobile’s ONE plan and brings the total number of different tiers to three (four, if you count T-Mobile ONE Plus...

Samsung continues to expand the selection of AR emojis based on Disney properties – the latest addition are the main characters from Frozen. Anna, Elsa, Olaf and Kristoff can be downloaded from the Galaxy App Store for the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy...

Today, EBay’s 2015 split from PayPal begins to show with the retailer’s announcement of two new financial partners for the platform. Both Apple Pay and Square have been brought onboard to expand financial services for the platform. As the use of...

In the latest custom iPhone X by Caviar the Apple logo takes on a biblical meaning as it recreates the story of the Garden of Eden. This gives the bite taken out of the apple in the logo a whole new meaning. Fittingly, Caviar calls this the “iPhone...

Samsung's anti-iPhone ad series Ingenius just got a few new clips titled Fast Charger, Dongle and Camera - pretty self explanatory. In these ads Samsung depicts a faux Apple store with an Apple Genius Bar employee that answers iPhone X questions...

Samsung's anticipated smart speaker will be called Magbee, according to a couple of trademark applications Samsung filled in the US and Europe. We know very little of the speaker, outside of its existence, but we can bet good money that it will...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has written an open letter in response to the European Union's Competition Commission' €4.3b fine from yesterday. In a lengthy address he says that the "decision rejects the business model that supports Android, which has...

Sam Cox, perhaps better known as Mr. Doodle, has garnered a lot of attention with his graffiti-style doodles. He just opened a Doodle World exhibition (his first in Korea) at the Ara Art Center where much the art has been drawn with an S...

Tuesday, reports surfaced that the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s office has issued a fine to Facebook for $664,000 or about GBP 500,000. The office finds that Facebook lacked the privacy protections necessary to catch Cambridge...

HTC will be laying off 1,500 workers in its manufacturing unit in Taiwan in a move to streamline its operations and cut loses. The people affected in the move will lose their jobs by September and represent a 22% chunk of the 6,450 workforce HTC...

WiFi security is taking a major step forward as the next-gen standard WPA3 was introduced by Wi-Fi Alliance. It is an upgrade over the WPA2, presented over a decade ago with simplified security, more robust authentication and increased strength for...

JD.com just ended its country-wide 618 Shopping Festival in China, which ran from June 1 to June 18 and took in a record-breaking CNY 127.5 billion (that’s about $20 billion). A big chunk of that was Huawei’s Honor phones. The sub-brand was the...

The iconic characters of Mickey and Minnie Mouse went from the TV screen to the phone screen this March when Samsung added them as AR Emoji on the Galaxy S9 and S9+ phones (they were joined by Donald Duck). Now two more of Mickey friends are...