LG’s 4K OLED TVs hit you in the face as you enter its booth. Andrew Hoyle/ CNET BERLIN — There are plenty of 4K TVs around, and there are a fair few OLED TVs too. But LG says there aren’t many 4K TVs that are OLED as well, and the company is right in the …
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The red-wigged Miss IFA is the Berlin show’s mascot. IFA The eyes of the tech world will be on Berlin, Germany next week for IFA, the biggest European gadget show in existence. CNET will be there in force to cover all the cool new kit from Samsung, Sony, Nokia, Asus, Huawei, Acer and more. This year, we’ll be writing about …
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You can download ITV Player today. Roku Lovers of “Celebrity Juice” and “Coronation Street” rejoice: from today you can stream your favourite telly programmes for free with the launch of ITV Player on Roku boxes and the Now TV Box , which is made by Roku. Roku sells a variety of streaming devices, including its Streaming Stick and Roku 3 …
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This $50 Bridge box will soon be unnecessary for most people. Sonos Sonos has just announced plans to remove one of the major drawbacks of its streaming music system — the need to buy an extra box — thus cut around $50 from the cost of a new system. Sonos has always pushed its unusual wireless technology as a unique …
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Just £30 will buy you Google’s Chromecast today from Amazon, PC World and Google’s Play store. Nearly eight months after it went on sale in the States, Google has finally released its video streamer here and it includes support for BBC iPlayer. The 2-inch dongle plugs straight into an HDMI port on a TV and streams video from YouTube and …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Gear Fit gets its curve on 1:18 BARCELONA, Spain — It’s been a whirlwind week for our team of reporters at Mobile World Congress: we have taken hundreds of briefings, sat through hours of press conferences and bought you all the news, hands-ons, pictures and video that we could muster. Today our crack team of …
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BARCELONA, Spain — The Galaxy S5 was announced at an event in Mobile World Congress on Monday, but Samsung surprised those expecting a radical design change by unveiling a phone that looks almost identical to its predecessors, the S3 and S4. I sat down with Samsung’s vice president for brand, Stephen Taylor, to ask why. “I don’t think that people need …
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BARCELONA, Spain — Qualcomm and KT have been giving delegates at Mobile World Congress a taste of the faster download speeds we can expect to see around the world soon. Tucked away in the corner of one exhibition hall is KT (formerly Korea Telecom) showing off a modified Samsung Galaxy Note 3 connected to a bunch of computers at its …
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LAS VEGAS — Steve Mollenkopf, the new CEO at Qualcomm, took to the stage at CES on Monday to take questions from the press with a broad message of “steady as she goes.” There were a few interesting titbits: firstly that he continues “to be optimistic of the future of the Windows ecosystem.” He refused to comment on rumors that …
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British tech company Pure is expanding its range of wireless speakers at CES, adding the $299 Jongo T4 model to its existing lineup. Jongo speakers can stream music from an Apple phone or tablet, Android device, or a computer via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. The T4 is a 50-watt model and joins the big-daddy T6 — with 100W of power — …
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