by Brian Barrett | Nov 15, 2019 | News
When you buy an Android smartphone, it’s rarely pure Android. Manufacturers squeeze in their own apps or give it a fresh coat of interface. Carriers do it too. The resulting stew of preinstalled software and vanilla Android sometimes turns out to be rancid, putting...
by Brian Barrett | Nov 12, 2019 | News
In the long run, that could place a cap on Disney’s streaming appeal. “Disney+ is not going to be a generalist service like Netflix or, to some extent, even Amazon,” says Tony Gunnarsson, streaming media analyst at Ovum. “It will be Disney titles only. I think that...
by Brian Barrett | Nov 9, 2019 | News
A week ago today, hackers unleashed the first known attack using the vulnerability known as BlueKeep, a long-feared development that in practice turned out to be relatively benign. For now, anyway! But don’t worry, plenty of other things still went wrong. Like,...
by Brian Barrett | Oct 31, 2019 | News
It’s been a good month for freebies. This week, AT&T announced that its upcoming HBO Max streaming service—it’s HBO, plus The Big Bang Theory and other catalog hits—would be free for its mobile subscribers and $15 for everyone else. About a week ago, Disney and...
by Brian Barrett | Oct 29, 2019 | News
A year ago, Google introduced one of those time-saving tricks that makes the cold, relentless march of time just a little bit more bearable: You could suddenly create a new Google doc simply by typing doc.new into your URL bar. Ditto spreadsheets, calendar events, and...
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