For staying connected, video calling is still all the rage. More personal than a phone call, but just as easy, video calling is often free and the feature is popping up in more apps, including WhatsApp earlier this year. If you have an iPhone or iPad, your top choice would likely be FaceTime, since its …
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With Apple Pay gaining steam and Samsung releasing its own system at Mobile World Congress 2015, called Samsung Pay, mobile payments are getting mainstream. In the coming years I’m betting that nearly every phone will let you quickly check out without grabbing for your wallet. More about mobile payments Everything you need to know about NFC and mobile payments Samsung …
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Google Starting today, Google can make you a drink. Well, not literally, but it can help you make yourself a drink. The Google Search app is getting an update to include cocktail recipes in search results, each with step-by-step instructions. Just fire up the Google app, on Android or iOS , tap the microphone and ask “How do I make …
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Screenshot by Sarah Mitroff/CNET Google is cleaning up your contacts. Today, the company teased out a preview of its new and improved Contacts page, where you view and manage the people, phone numbers and email addresses in your Google account. It looks a whole lot cleaner and promises to help make getting rid of duplicate entries easier. Related stories Google …
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Microsoft’s new Lumia 640 CNET Day one of Mobile World Congress, the biggest mobile tech show of the year, is coming to a close and already we’ve seen some huge announcements from the proceedings. Yesterday brought new phones from Samsung and HTC, plus a whole slew of device announcements, from Alcatel to ZTE. Today, we look under the hood at …
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Lynn La/CNET Withings’ stylish fitness trackers, the Activite and the Activite Pop , can now sync with Android phones, the company announced at Mobile World Congress 2015. The two smartwatch and fitness tracker hybrids were only compatible with iOS at first, but now Android owners can use them, too. Not only will the Withings Health Mate Android app sync with …
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CNET It’s finally here: Samsung’s newest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S6. The company showed off its colorful, flashy new phone at its Mobile World Congress press conference in Barcelona. This time around, Samsung gave us not just one phone, but two: the Galaxy S6 Edge and other goodies. We sat through the entire event to pick out the best moments, …
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Alpina’s horological watch tracks your movements and sleep. Josh Miller/CNET SAN FRANCISCO — At an event here Thursday evening, Swiss watchmakers Frederique Constant, Mondaine and Alpina and motion-tracking software company Fullpower announced the MMT Horological smartwatch platform, which hopes to bridge the gap between old-school traditional quartz watches and the smartwatches of the future. For the new platform, which includes …
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Google If you’re still carrying around an MP3 player to listen to your song files, Google’s got some good news for you today. The company announced that starting now, you can upload 50,000 of your own music files to Google Play Music, so you can stream them on your Android phone or iPhone. The limit used to be 20,000 songs, …
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Josh Miller/CNET IFTTT’s new Do apps — Do Button, Do Note and Do Camera — are simple, yet versatile tools to help you automate and simplify the tasks you do everyday. While the apps are well designed and fun to use, they can be a bit overwhelming at first, because there are hundreds of ways to use them. I’m highlighting …
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