AUSTIN, Texas–Hallelujah! Southwest Airlines is starting to roll out mobile boarding passes, and for anyone who flies as much as I have over the last few years, this is very welcome news. I’ve been here at South by Southwest for the past week, and this afternoon, checking in for my flight home on Tuesday, I …
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Sundar Pichai, Google’s senior vice president of Android, Apps, and Chrome, at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. Daniel Terdiman/CNET AUSTIN, Texas — Google plans on releasing an Android software developer kit for wearables within two weeks. That was the biggest announcement from Sundar Pichai, Google’s head of Android and Chrome during an on-stage interview with John Battelle today at …
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“ One of Daenerys Targeryan’s dragons, from “Game of Thrones.” Daenerys is known as Mother of Dragons. Daniel Terdiman/CNET AUSTIN, Texas — Who would have known that coming to the Texas capital this week would offer up the chance to get up close with the fruits of Westeros? Thanks to HBO, which is preparing to debut Season 4 of “Game …
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Lego will release its new Sandcrawler set in May. It will cost $300. Lego When I saw “Star Wars” the first time, on opening day in 1977, I had to wait in line for more than an hour to get in. Which meant that by the time I entered the theater — San Francisco’s famous Coronet — the first thing …
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Fresh off winning the Super Bowl, or at least the social media advertising wars during the NFL’s championship, Oreo is now setting out to conquer the stars in the skies. The cookie giant has teamed up with Nokia to release a stargazing app for Lumia Windows phones that could result in the heavens above being filled with virtual Oreos. Called …
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A lot of people like to do some of their banking on their mobile devices, but one company says the smartphone isn’t just for checking balances. Green Dot thinks the device can be the entire bank. With the launch today of GoBank, Green Dot — a major player in reloadable prepaid cards — is betting that an all-new FDIC-insured bank, …
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Despite the relative dearth of 3D television programming, sales of 3D TVs are on the rise. But for those who make that programming, the biggest challenge of all may be simultaneously producing 2D versions of the same shows. In order to film in 3D, two normal cameras are placed side by side. But because the lenses can’t fit side by …
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