screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Anyone looking to unload an Android or BlackBerry smartphone can now turn to Apple. The company expanded its trade-in program on Monday to accept certain models of rival phones, including Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone handsets. Your old phone scores you store credit, which you can then use to purchase a …
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LG’s new Magna and Spirit are targeting the midrange mobile-phone market. Sarah Tew/CNET LG is launching four new midrange but premium smartphones that it hopes will attract budget-conscious consumers. The global rollout of LG’s new Magna, Spirit, Leon and Joy phones is starting in South America but will be closely followed by Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and North …
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Pebble Time is slated to start rolling out to its backers in May, while the Steel version will launch in July. James Martin/CNET Smartwatch maker Pebble has won back the throne on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Launching on Kickstarter at the end of February, the company’s latest wearable, the Pebble Time , is now officially the most-funded project ever on the …
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The pricey 18-karat-gold Apple Watch Edition James Martin/CNET Those of you eyeing the new Apple Watch will need a reservation to buy one. Customers who simply walk into an Apple Store expecting to purchase the new watch on the spot will apparently be out of luck, according to leaked Apple training documents obtained by MacRumors. Instead, buyers will have to …
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BlackBerry CEO John Chen is still trying to turn the company around. Brian Bennett/CNET BlackBerry will show another decline in revenue in its latest quarter, predicts JP Morgan analyst Rod Hall. In an investors note released Thursday, Hall said he expects that BlackBerry finished its fiscal fourth quarter with sales of $791 million. Such a figure would be down 19 …
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The LG Watch Urbane LTE can also send and accept text messages and make mobile payments — all on its own. LG LG has put a price tag on its new smartwatch that doesn’t need a smartphone to phone home. The LG Watch Urbane LTE launches in South Korea on Friday at a price of 650,000 won ($589). It can …
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PayPal says it has changed its process for screening payments. PayPal PayPal is on the hook for $7.7 million after it allegedly processed payments for some highly questionable customers. On Wednesday, the online payment service agreed to pay the fine after reaching a settlement with the US Treasury Department. The fine was levied against PayPal based on nearly 500 transactions …
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Salt Lake City is among five metro areas targeted for the next rounds of Google Fiber. Google Salt Lake City is now on the list to get a taste of Google’s all-fiber network for super high-speed Internet and TV services. The Utah city joins Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and Nashville, Tenn., as the next metro regions in line, Devin …
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Facebook’s new “On This Day” feature lets you relive the past. Facebook You can travel back in time to a certain day via a new Facebook feature. Known as “On This Day,” the feature displays status updates, photos, posts from friends, and other items that you shared or appeared in on this date in the past, Facebook said Tuesday. For …
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An Apple invention may one day help you track others minute to minute. Apple/USPTO Apple’s current Find My Friends feature could one day expand into more of a Track My Friends feature. Granted to Apple on Tuesday by the US Patent and Trademark Office, a patent called “Sharing location information among devices” describes a process that would let you view …
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