T-Mobile CEO John Legere has refashioned his company as a cheaper option to the bigger carriers. CNET T-Mobile is trying to make it easier to buy a high-end smartphone, even without a subsidy. The wireless carrier on Sunday came out with a new program called “Score” that could let its customers unlock deals on every …
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The new NFL channel on YouTube with include previews, highlights and post-game recaps. YouTube/NFL The National Football League has officially come to YouTube. The league announced Monday that it’s finally created its own channel on the world’s biggest online video network, as part of a broader partnership with YouTube’s parent Google, which includes NFL videos, news and other information available …
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MediaTek President Ching-Jiang Hsieh at the company’s 2015 CES booth, where he discussed his firm’s US ambitions. Ben Fox Rubin/CNET MediaTek hopes it can upend the way you think about buying your next smartphone. The Taiwan-based chipmaker, which dominates China’s low- and mid-tier mobile phone markets, wants to make affordable phones more attractive to consumers — and become a global …
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The Touch Preview feature comes to Spotify’s Apple iOS app today, then rolls out to other platforms later on. Spotify You can’t judge a song by its cover art. That’s the thinking behind Spotify’s newest tweaks to its music-streaming app, which will allow users to preview songs and albums before clicking through to listen to them. The idea behind the …
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Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft announces Surface Hub 1:10 Microsoft is hoping it can make droning business meetings a little more productive. The company on Wednesday introduced the new Surface Hub, an 84-inch touchscreen 4K display equipped with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and built-in microphones and cameras. “The best work we do is when we come together,” a Microsoft employee said when …
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Samsung’s Galaxy S5, which was released last year with a Snapdragon chip inside. CNET Samsung may be planning to dump Qualcomm’s processor from its next Galaxy S flagship smartphone, opting to use its own Exynos chips instead. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Samsung, the world’s biggest smartphone maker, won’t be using the Snapdragon 810 chip from Qualcomm, the world’s biggest maker …
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Netflix will air Tina Fey sitcom “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” in March. The series joins a large group of new original shows on Netflix in 2015. Netflix Netflix’s trek around the globe is one that even Marco Polo would deem impressive. The world’s largest online-video streaming company, which produces the eponymous show about the Venetian merchant, released its fourth-quarter results Tuesday. …
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The Qualcomm booth at the Consumer Electronics Show this month, where the chipmaker repeatedly talked about the “Internet of Everything.” Sarah Tew/CNET Well before the Internet of Things becomes an actual thing, chipmakers are jockeying to get a piece of the potentially huge new market. References to the Internet of Things — the idea of connecting more devices and objects …
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More Chinese locations will soon join this Apple retail store in Beijing. Apple Apple’s growth plans in China are heating up. The tech giant plans to open five new stores across the country over the coming five weeks, Xinhua, the Chinese government’s news agency, reported Thursday. Those will be on top of the 15 Apple stores already there. “We are …
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Intel’s earnings today suggest some life left in the PC business. Sarah Tew/CNET The personal computer isn’t back — not yet anyway — but it’s not dead either. The changed fortunes of the once downtrodden PC could be seen front and center in Intel’s latest earnings report, issued Thursday. The company wrapped up a solid 2014 by announcing its first …
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