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T-Mobile will no longer be carrying BlackBerry devices

By the looks of it, BlackBerry chief John Chen wasn't appeased by T-Mobile's attempt to make peace, in fact, things have only escalated: T-Mobile will no longer carry any BlackBerry device....

Samsung’s Smart Home service is coming to the U.S. and South Korea

The Samsung Smart Home platform, announced at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, has started its global rollout and will first be made available in Korea, followed by the...

Samsung announces three new mid-range Galaxy tablets

Though the FCC already ruined the surprise, Samsung has just launched three new lower-tier Galaxy Tab 4 tablets. The series consists of the 7-inch Galaxy Tab 4 7.0, 8-inch Galaxy Tab 4...

Texas judge orders Mt. Gox CEO to return to the U.S.

Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles has been ordered by a judge to return to the US to face questions over his bankruptcy filing with a Dallas court and how 750,000...

Long Beach’s electric-bus deal gets killed by the feds

Has California’s dream of zero-emission electric transit buses turned into something more akin to a nightmare? A deal under which the city of Long Beach would buy 15 electric transit buses...

Huawei’s Ascend Mate 2 could be coming to the U.S.

Huawei tends to make pretty decent devices that comes with a relatively low price tag and if you’re interested in some of Huawei’s offerings, you might be interested to learn...

Brendan Eich discusses the gay-marriage firestorm surrounding Mozilla

Brendan Eich, Mozilla’s new chief executive, told CNET that Mozilla itself is under threat by the firestorm surrounding his donation to Prop. 8, the anti-gay marriage ballot initiative. Since the controversy erupted, as...

EA to phase out physical copies from its game-distribution platform

Electronic Arts' Origin, a digital game-distribution platform aimed at taking on Valve's Steam service, has decided to nix physical discs. Starting April 4, Origin users trying to buy physical game discs...

U.S. adult spends 2 hours and 42 minutes per day on mobile devices

We’re now six years into what app analytics provider Flurry calls the mobile revolution and as you might expect, the average consumer in the US is spending more time than...

Airbnb agrees to start paying San Francisco’s 14% hotel tax

Popular home rental website Airbnb will start paying San Francisco's 14% hotel tax, addressing a key regulatory concern. David Hantman, Airbnb's head of global public policy, said in a blog post that "we’ll soon be collecting and...

Upworthy announces new native advertising partnership program

Upworthy’s secret sauce is now in the hands of brands. Following limited partnerships with Dove, Skype, and theBill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Upworthy is launching a full-blown ad program and content consultancy. The goal? To bring brand-approved...

FCC rejects Netflix’s net neutrality plea

The Federal Communications Commission said today that it won’t be expanding the scope of net neutrality regulations, despite the recent call to arms by streaming-video service Netflix. Last month Netflix CEO...

Samsung’s Galaxy S5 has the best display ever

Display-analyzing firm DisplayMate has been taking a very close look at the screen on the soon-to-launch Galaxy S5 smartphone, and its findings are sure to have Samsung executives cracking a smile as wide as the...

Cars made after 2018 will be required to have rearview cameras

Backup cameras will be mandatory for automakers by May 2018. The NHTSA on Monday issue new regulation that requires all vehicles under 10,000 pounds be equipped with rear-visibility cameras. The...

Balderton Capital raises $305 million to invest in European tech

Balderton Capital, the European VC investor behind MySQL, NaturalMotion and Yoox, has raised $305 million for its fifth European fund. As has been hinted at previously, the focus of the...

HP to pay $57 million to settle lawsuit for defrauding shareholders

It may have been overshadowed by pricier acquisition deals in subsequent years, but HP's 2010 takeover of Palm remains a milestone event. It was a seemingly perfect combination of a highly competitive...

Record a dozen shows at once with Verizon’s Quantum TV DVR

Verizon's latest DVR is less set-top box and more home media server: with six tuners and a 1TB hard drive, you can add a second DVR unit to record up to...

Valve announces this year’s International Dota 2 tournament

Valve has announced this year's International Dota 2 tournament. It will be held on July 18th at the KeyArena in Seattle, Washington. Tickets go on sale this Friday,  April 4th at 3pm Pacific time. Four-day...

Estonian startup Lingvist can teach you a language in 200 hours

Thanks to Lingvist, a startup from Estonia, you can use a mathematically-optimized approach to language acquisition that will have you learning a new language in around 200 hours. The first language...

PopCap Games veteran wants to help with back-end support

James Gwertzman spent eight years at PopCap Games, much of it in China, as the game industry went through many changes. PopCap’s own struggles to adapt to the new free-to-play...