Microsoft’s Cortana is expanding its language skills. CNET Microsoft’s Cortana voice assistant is traveling to more countries so it can chat in more languages. Slated to roll out on Friday, an update to Microsoft’s Windows Phone Developer Preview will see Cortana support French, Italian, German and Spanish. But the new languages won’t be available to …
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What features will the successor to the Galaxy S5 sport? Josh Miller/CNET Samsung’s next Galaxy phone will up the screen size and resolution over the S5, assuming a new round of leaked specs are accurate. A screenshot leaked by Chinese website CNMO from the database of benchmarking site AnTuTu allegedly displays some of the specs of the Samsung Galaxy S6. …
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Apple’s new iPhone 6 handsets. Apple The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have delivered a huge surge in sales for Apple globally, according to a new report. For the three months ending in October, Apple’s share of smartphone sales in Europe rose by 5.7 percentage points from a year ago to 20.7 percent courtesy of the new iPhones, market researcher …
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Google Android 5.0 Lollipop has apparently begun its worldwide tour to reach owners of Samsung’s Galaxy S5. Released by Google on November 3, the latest flavor of Google’s mobile operating system is now available for the GS5 in Poland, blog site SamMobile said Wednesday. Poland has been used by mobile device makers as a starting point to test out new …
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Apple’s iPhone 6 is now more readily available. CNET Want to order an iPhone 6 through Apple’s website? You now have to wait just a few days for it to ship, assuming you don’t need the highest-capacity model. Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus order page in the US now shows a ship time of three to five business …
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A new system will let Starbucks customers order and pay before they get to the store. Starbucks Starbucks customers across the US will be able to place and pay for their orders via an iPhone before they even reach the store. A new program, called Mobile Order & Pay, has already kicked off in Portand, Ore., on Wednesday as a …
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Business Wire People used Yahoo this year to get the scoop on celebrities and tech products, but it was a deadly disease that elicited the highest volume of searches. Revealing its Year in Review for 2014, Yahoo cited the Ebola virus as the most-searched item of the year as the disease ravaged several African countries and turned up in isolated …
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More New Yorkers will soon be able to check out a Wi-Fi device from their library as easily as they can check out a book. Google made a $1 million donation to New York Public Library to help pay for a program that allows patrons to borrow Wi-Fi devices to use at home for a certain length of time, the …
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Nicole Cozma/CNET Android 5.0 Lollipop, a month out the door, is getting its first bug-fixing update. Image files pushed out by Google onto its Android Open Source Project page and its Factory Images for Nexus Devices page show a 5.0.1 update for the latest flavor of the search giant’s mobile OS. So far, the 5.0.1 images appear for these devices: …
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Adobe pegged Cyber Monday sales at $2.65 billion, a healthy increase over last year. Walmart This year’s Cyber Monday online sales rose over sales from 2013, but the exact increase depends on who you ask. Online sales for the day were up by 8.5 percent over last year’s Cyber Monday, according to IBM’s Digital Analytics Benchmark. Mobile sales snagged 22 …
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