Some Starbucks customers will be able to order their favorite venti mocha double-shot no-whip before they even reach the counter. In an interview with Bloomberg published late Wednesday, Starbucks Chief Digital Officer Adam Brotman said that the coffee chain is “actively working” on mobile ordering. As such, a trial set for this year will see …
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The Nokia X Android phone. Sarah Tew/CNET Smartphone shoppers in India are the first ones able to purchase the new Nokia X handset. Offered as of Monday at a price of 8,599 rupees ($141), the new Android-based smartphone targets the midrange market, according to the Economic Times. That range typically sees phones sell for between 7,000 and 15,000 rupees, and …
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Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Siri tries its best to be helpful but sometimes doesn’t seem to know how to respond or carry on a conversation. How can you improve the sometimes rocky relationship with Apple’s voice assistant? Let’s start with one of Siri’s worst faux pas — interrupting you. By default, Siri doesn’t know when you’ve ended a question or …
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The successor to the HTC One is on display yet again through a series of leaked photos. Sarah Tew/CNET The all new HTC One has showed itself off yet again, albeit unofficially, through new photos leaked online. Posted Sunday on a Chinese Weibo site as reported by French tech news site NowhereElse.fr, the latest series of photos reveal the front, …
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Kevin Spacey in “House of Cards” Screenshot by Joan E. Solsman/CNET Comcast Xfinity customers will be able to watch the first season of “House of Cards” without need of a Netflix subscription. The series comes to Comcast courtesy of a deal announced on Monday with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment that gives the cable company rights to sell the initial season, …
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Verizon has dipped its toes in the installment plan option with its Edge program, but the carrier’s CFO sees the subsidy model as still the safer option. In a presentation Monday at a Deutsche Bank conference, Verizon Communications Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo talked about the intricacies of offering customers subsidized phones versus those paid off via an installment plan. …
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The Wello doubles as an iPhone case and health monitor. Azoi Your iPhone may be able to play doctor with help from a $199 case. Made by consumer-electronics company Azoi, a smartphone case called Wello aims to measure a range of vitals, including your blood pressure, electrocardiography (ECG), heart rate, blood oxygen, temperature, and lung function. Azoi claims the measurements …
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T-Mobile’s $200 trade-in deal reportedly snagged a lot of BlackBerry owners. But 94 percent of them opted to switch to a rival device, according to the folks at TmoNews. Announced on February 19 and ending today, the T-Mobile promotion promised $200 to any BlackBerry owner who traded in their device for a new phone. As part of the deal, customers …
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Want to protect your phone calls and data from the feds, hackers, and other snoops? FreedomPop’s new Privacy Phone promises to do just that. Nicknamed the “Snowden phone” after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the phone is actually a Samsung Galaxy S2 that FreedomPop rejiggered into a call- and data-encrypting device. Equipped with 128-bit encryption, the phone aims to secure your …
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Windows Phone users can now download Facebook Messenger. Already available for iOS and Android devices, the social network’s dedicated chat app is now nestled in the Windows Phone Store. A spinoff of the full Facebook mobile app, Facebook Messenger lets you chat with one or more of your friends, share your location, and perk up your chats with pictures and …
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