The Xbox One November update will let you customize your background. Microsoft Microsoft is trying to help Xbox One owners discover new TV shows and more courtesy of the upcoming November update. In an Xbox Wire blog posted on Monday, Microsoft’s Larry Hyrb, aka Major Nelson, described in details all the features headed to Xbox …
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Apple/USPTO Apple wants to turn your iPhone into an advanced remote control for your car, but this idea may go a bit further than current such devices. Published on Tuesday by the US Patent and Trademark Office, a patent application called “Accessory control with geo-fencing” imagines a virtual field or boundary around your car known as a geofence. By detecting …
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Apple’s new iPhone 6 handsets. CNET The iPhone 6 is likely to score additional torrents of customers upgrading, but quite yet. In an investors note released Tuesday, analyst Katy Huberty pointed to estimates that say only half of the 250 million owners of the iPhone 4S and older iPhones will upgrade to the iPhone 6 this year. As such, that …
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The iPhone 6 (left) and the 6 Plus CNET Apple could exit the holiday-shopping season with record sales of up to 62 million iPhones. In an investors note released Monday, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster forecast iPhone sales for the October-through-December quarter of anywhere from 56.7 million to 62.7 million. That range compares with overall Wall Street estimates of 60 …
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Users of Gmail’s mobile Android app will be able to tap into their Yahoo and Outlook email in the next version, according to an apparently leaked video posted by blog site Android Police. The video as shown on Android Police and Videme offers a quick but revealing tour of Gmail 5.0, the next edition of Google’s mobile email app. The …
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iPhone 6 owners can use Apple Pay to purchase items on the go. Apple Apple is slated to roll out Apple Pay on Monday. But just how widely supported is the mobile payment service, and how long could it take to fully ramp up? Unveiled at last month’s iPhone event, Apple Pay is the company’s first real foray into the …
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Skype — on various iPhones. Microsoft iPhone 6 users will be able to see more of Skype courtesy of the latest update to the mobile app. Released Wednesday in Apple’s App Store, Skype 5.6 for the iPhone offers an optimized and scaled interface for the larger-screened iPhones, Skype said in a blog post. Specifically, the new version displays more of …
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The Apple Store is down now but will be back. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Apple’s online store is now offline. The company took down its online retail store at around 5:30 a.m. PT on Thursday as it gets set for a launch event in which it’s likely to unveil new iPads, updated Macs, and perhaps a few surprises. Apple is …
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CNET iPad Air 2 buyers will be able to purchase the tablet in gold. At its iPad launch event today, Apple revealed that the latest edition of its iPad Air will be available in three colors — space gray, silver, and now gold. The original iPad Air had been available in just space gray and silver. But gold has been …
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Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Google’s new Nexus 6 phone has made a subtle appearance on AT&T’s website as of Tuesday night. The new phone, which rumored to be unveiled today, doesn’t have its own dedicated page just yet. But check out the page for the LG G3 Vigor, scroll down, and look at the section called People Also Viewed. At …
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