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• How to tell if your Galaxy Note7 is safe to use

  Samsung has created specific box markings and an IMEI lookup tool so you can tell if you have a non-explosive model.

• Galaxy Note 7 recall: What to do with the phone until it is replaced?

  Some suggestions: Watch the device as it's charging and stop if it overheats, or take it back to the place it was bought and see if the retailer can help.

• 7 surprises in Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 smartphone

  The new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone is available via presale this week. Here's a detailed breakdown of the most notable new features in Samsung's latest phablet phone.

• Samsung Galaxy TabPro S: An enterprise contender?

  Samsung is the latest mobile device maker to get into the hybrid game with the Galaxy TabPro S. The hybrid tablet is built to compete with the Surface Pro 4 and iPad Pro, but does it measure up?

• 7 things to love about the Galaxy S7 and GS7 edge (and 3 to hate)

  CIO.com's Al Sacco goes hands-on with Samsung's new Galaxy S7 smartphones and spotlights the most notable new features, along with a few of the GS7 phones' potential shortcomings.

• Interest in smartphones is flattening

  Both Apple and Samsung this week predicted slow growth for smartphone and mobile phone sales in early 2016, making investors queasy.

• Tablet sales fail to shine as iPad's approach first year of decline

  "The tablet market continues to be impacted by a few major trends happening in relevant markets."

• Tomorrow's news today: The biggest tech stories of 2014

  I write one of these "Tech Trends of 20XX" stories every year. For me, it's as big a part of the holidays as the Yule Log. I can remember some years when the big predictions for the next year were just the natural, incremental growth of current trends.

• Top tech stories of 2013: Big Brother, wearables, and the struggles of aging tech giants

  Politics collided with the world of technology this year as stories about U.S. government spying stirred angst both among the country's citizens and foreign governments, and the flawed HeathCare.gov site got American health-care reform off to a rocky start. Meanwhile, the post-PC era put aging tech giants under pressure to reinvent themselves. Here in no particular order are IDG News Service's picks for the top 10 tech stories of the year.

• Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy Round: few new features, but posh design

  What different advantages can a curved screen bring to a smartphone? Well, not a whole lot. But Samsung's newest smartphone, the Galaxy Round, comes off as a posh device that may be the company's best looking handset yet.

• Spec showdown: Apple iPad Air vs Samsung Galaxy Note vs Sony Tablet Z

  Apple CEO Tim Cook spent a bit of time dissing the competition while he was on stage at Apple's iPad Air launch event on Tuesday, but how does Apple's newest tablet stack up against the competition?

• What smartphones will be like in 2012

  Since the advent of the first modern smartphone--arguably the original Apple iPhone in 2007--the power of these mobile computing devices that also happen to make phone calls has advanced by leaps and bounds.