Apple Watch may soon be on many more wrists. Sarah Tew/CNET Customers around the world will have more ways to get their hands — or wrists — on Apple Watch in the coming weeks. Apple Watch will be available in Apple’s brick-and-mortar retail stores within two weeks, the company announced on Thursday, ending months of …
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Yahoo and NFL are teaming up on exclusive online streaming. NFL The gridiron is coming to Yahoo in October, the company and the National Football League announced on Wednesday. On October 25, Yahoo, Yahoo Sports, and Tumblr, among other Yahoo properties, will be the exclusive online streaming home to a game between the Buffalo Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars. The game, …
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Samsung Pay will be launching at some point around September. Josh Miller/CNET Samsung’s mobile payments service, Samsung Pay, is on its way to a global rollout as it prepares for battle with alternatives from Apple and Google. Samsung Pay will launch in the US and South Korea in the “September time frame,” Rhee Injong, a Samsung executive vice president, said …
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The Disconnect app is still running on Apple’s iOS. Disconnect Already under investigation by regulators in Europe, a new complaint against Google claims its ban of one privacy application violates antitrust regulations. Disconnect, the maker of a privacy app that stops surreptitious user tracking and malicious advertising, filed a complaint with the European Union on Tuesday. The complaint argues that …
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LG Display will fold up and roll over. LG Display The days of being able to roll up a computer or television screen are (kinda) upon us. LG Display will feature prominently at the 2015 Society for Information Display conference in San Jose, Calif. this week, showcasing an 18-inch flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. According to LG Display, the …
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SoftBank is slowly but surely swallowing up more of Supercell. Supercell SoftBank, a Japanese telecom company, is expanding its ownership in Supercell, which makes one of the world’s most popular mobile video games. SoftBank has increased its ownership share in Clash of Clans maker Supercell to 73.2 percent, SoftBank announced Monday. Full terms of the deal were not disclosed, but …
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ARM could have its sights set on Sansa for IoT. ARM Chip designer ARM could be looking to acquire a mobile security company that specializes in the burgeoning market for the Internet of Things — which puts computer chips in everday objects — according to a new report. ARM is in talks to acquire Israel-based Sansa Security for between $75 …
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Apple Watch has spurred major growth in smartwatch display shipments. Sarah Tew/CNET The market for smartwatch displays will tally record shipments in 2015, and it has Apple Watch to thank for it, according to new data from research firm IHS. A total of 34 million smartwatch displays — the screens that constitutes the watch face — will ship worldwide this …
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If you’ve been on the lookout for pranksters crashing your iOS device through text, you now will need to look in other places. Watch out for those Snapchat notifications! Snapchat An iOS bug surfaced earlier this week that crashes a device running Apple’s mobile operating system whenever a string of characters in non-Latin script, including Arabic or Chinese, is sent …
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Now playing: Watch this: Save your data by using Google Maps offline 1:15 Google Maps, the venerable mapping service from the world’s largest search company, will soon work both online and off. Google Maps’ offline support will be launching “later this year,” Google announced during its keynote address at its I/O developer confab on Thursday. The feature will allow users …
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