Sarah Tew/CNET Can you keep a secret? The ultra-secure Blackphone is getting its own app store that only sells apps that won’t sell you out. The Blackphone is a collaboration between hardware manufacturer Geeksphone and Silent Circle, which helps you keep your communication safe from prying eyes. The phone boasts tight encryption to keep your …
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The new YotaPhone 2 boasts a low-power screen on the back as well as the usual LCD touchscreen on the front. Andrew Hoyle/CNET The people who brought you the phone with a screen on the back are having another crack: the YotaPhone 2. Russian broadband provider Yota makes a range of smartphones, but the YotaPhone series is distinguished by its …
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The flatmates in BT’s adverts will have trouble getting into comic misadventures and hi-larious scrapes with their broadband connection interrupted. BT BT broadband customers are having problems getting online, which is just adding insult to injury considering the company hiked line rental prices today. “We’re aware of an intermittent issue that’s affecting some broadband customers,” a BT spokesperson said in …
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Glassketball: Sacramento Kings point guard Ray McCallum Jr. dunks while wearing Google Glass. James Martin/CNET Intel has its eyes on one of the biggest prizes in wearable technology as reports say it will provide the chip for the next generation of Google Glass. The current model of Glass contains a processor made by Texas Instruments. Left behind in the market …
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Watch and learn: a new smartwartch from Sony brings the whole watch to life — because both the face and the band change and react to you. The FES watch is the product of Fashion Entertainments, which describes itself on its website as a “startup project” but is in fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, a subdivision of Sony. …
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Sarah Tew/CNET Bing bong, attention shoppers: Black Friday is back. One day after the American holiday Thanksgiving is Black Friday, the day upon which US shops drop their prices as a last chance for shoppers to snatch up some savings before Christmas. The event has spread to these shores, and you don’t have to join the rumble at the checkouts …
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RG-vc/Shutterstock You can now have your Amazon deliveries sent to your local post office to pick up at your leisure. The online bookseller-turned-everything seller has signed a deal with Royal Mail just in time for Christmas, the busiest time of year for the postal industry. The option to send your order to post offices with the Royal Mail Local Collect …
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CNET EE is the UK’s largest mobile network, but according to its French owners the current situation isn’t going to work out. French company Orange is joint owner of EE with Germany’s Deutsche Telekom. But according to Orange Chief Executive Stéphane Richard, speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference in Barcelona, “The 50-50 situation isn’t a long-term scheme.” EE by gum …
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The latest generation of phone-protecting Gorilla Glass is here, and who better to test it out than the Mythbusters. Here comes the pane! In new videos made by US glassmaker Corning to promote Gorilla Glass 4, the ever-enthusiastic Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman from Discovery Channel’s “Mythbusters” TV show claim we live in the “glass age”. The video adverts talk …
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Don’t mention the Internet: What would Fawlty Towers proprietor Basil Fawlty think of TripAdvisor? BBC What’s worse than a horrible hotel? A horrible hotel that hits you with a massive fine when you tell the world just how bad it is. A hotel described as a “rotten, stinking hovel” in a review on TripAdvisor has hit the critical couple with …
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