Spotify knows which bands you’re listening to. Now it aims to tell you when they’ll be in town. The music-streaming service has a new feature for iPhone and Android users that will generate listings for users based on location and listening preferences. Starting Thursday, you can open the Browse tab on Spotify and select “Concerts” …
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Sometimes the tape keeps going after you thought it had run out. But three decades? It turns out that Sony is still making videocassette tapes for its Betamax video recording systems, largely vanquished from the gadget scene in the 1980s. Not for much longer, though. Sony announced Wednesday that it will stop producing Betamax tapes in March of next year. …
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The latest iPhones and devices from China’s Huawei were hot tickets during a near-record quarter for smartphone makers. Apple shipped 48 million iPhones worldwide during the third quarter, up 22 percent from the same period a year ago, while Huawei shipped 26.5 million smartphones, good for a leap of 61 percent, according to a report released Wednesday by market researcher …
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You can get up to $200 in credit toward the purchase of a new Galaxy Tab E Nook by trading in select Nook, iPad, Kindle and other Samsung tablets. The promotion is good in-store through November 7. Samsung Barnes & Noble and Samsung added a new device to their lineup of reader-focused tablets: the $249 Samsung Galaxy Tab E Nook. …
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Enlarge ImageBlackBerry’s upcoming Priv smartphone has a 5.5-inch curved screen. BlackBerry BlackBerry on Tuesday revealed the first photos of its security-focused Android smartphone, the Priv. In a blog post, the Waterloo, Ontario, smartphone maker released photos of the Priv, which is expected to launch in the fourth quarter. Priv stands for both “privacy and privilege,” according to BlackBerry CEO John …
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Groupon says it will reinvest the savings from its cost-cutting moves. Rick Wilking/Reuters/Corbis Groupon plans to cut about 1,100 jobs, mostly in its sales and customer service operations, and end doing business in several markets around the world, the company said Tuesday. The job cuts represent about 10 percent of the company’s global workforce. As part of the cost-cutting measures, …
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Sarah Tew/CNET Apple’s new iPhone and iPad software comes with better battery life and a new Siri interface. It might also come with bugs. Apple customers are reporting on Twitter and other online forums that apps on their mobile devices are crashing when they update the operating system to iOS 9. iOS 9, the latest version of Apple’s software for …
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T-Mobile announces video calling. CNET T-Mobile customers with one of Samsung’s newer Android-powered smartphones can now make video calls right from the handset’s dialer. While video calling is widely available through third-party apps, the carrier said Thursday that its customers with the Galaxy Note 5 or Galaxy S6 Edge+ will be able to use T-Mobile Video Calling to make and …
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Enlarge ImageA look at Apple’s wireless headset with untethered earbuds. Apple via USPTO Apple has applied for a patent on bone conduction technology for voice communications, the US Patent and Trademark Office revealed Thursday. Apple’s patent application, filed in February 2014 but not published till Thursday, describes a method of improving voice quality in a wireless headset with untethered earbuds …
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A backwards S-Pen can permanently damage the device. Sarah Tew Samsung should learn from Apple if it wants to avoid a full-blown controversy from erupting. Word of a design flaw in the Samsung’s Galaxy Note 5 smartphone cropped up on Tuesday, as the blog Android Police discovered you could permanently damage the device if you insert its S-Pen stylus into …
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