Twitter has expanded its buy-button feature by partnering with three major e-commerce platforms. Twitter wants its users to do more shopping via tweets. After more than a year of testing, the social network announced Wednesday that its Buy Now button is available to thousands of retailers in the United States. Twitter is partnering with major …
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Matt Elliott/CNET How best to juggle multiple windows is the bane of any multitasker’s existence. Apple added Spaces to OS X a few years ago, which lets you spread out your open windows across multiple virtual desktops. Spaces help to keep your open windows from piling up on top of one another, but the feature is less useful when you …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET The OS X Mail app received an update with El Capitan, making the constant chore of keeping pace with your email inbox a little less arduous. Namely, it borrows a few swipe gestures from iOS while adding a few useful tweaks to Mail’s fullscreen mode. Just as you can in Mail for iOS, the Mail app …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Apple has released the latest update to its Mac operating system. OS X 10.11 El Capitan is available as a free download in the Mac App Store. As Nate Ralph says in his review , El Capitan is more evolution than revolution, but it’s the next step in Apple’s relentless march toward efficiency, chock full of improvements along …
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Enlarge ImageEl Capitan streamlines the Apple experience. Karl Mondon/ZUMA Press/Corbis Mac users don’t have to wait any longer to update their software. Apple on Wednesday released the latest version of its Mac OS X software, dubbed El Capitan, to users for free. Mac owners can download the update by going to the Mac App Store or by clicking this direct …
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Sprint will raise the price of its unlimited data plan next month. Lynn La/CNET If you’re looking for a deal on an unlimited data plan, you might want to look at Sprint now. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier said Wednesday that it would raise the price of its unlimited data plan by $10 to $70 a month. The change takes …
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Enlarge Image James Martin/CNET Naturally, Apple has integrated 3D Touch into its own apps on iOS, giving users the ability to do take action on different types of information and content. Before we dive into the precise actions you can take within apps, if Peek and Pop are foreign terms to you, read our getting started guide for 3D Touch. …
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Former Sprint CTO Stephen Bye will join regional wireless operator C Spire in November. Sprint A small regional wireless operator in Mississippi is beefing up its technology chops by hiring an executive who had a leading role in Sprint’s network overhaul. On Wednesday, Ridgeland, Mississippi-based C Spire announced that former Sprint chief technology officer Stephen Bye would lead its technology …
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Andrew Hoyle/CNET Apple’s new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus have been given a whole host of upgrades from the predecessor, including a fancy new way to poke at the screen, a ton of extra power and a camera resolution boost. It’s the front-facing camera we’re looking at here, which has been upped from 2 to 5 megapixels, which will be …
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Enlarge ImageMicrosoft is expected to launch the successor to its Lumia 930 (above) next week. Josh Miller/CNET A week before Microsoft is scheduled to hold a Windows 10 hardware event that will take place in New York, the company has reportedly posted photos and specs of its anticipated flagships phones, the Lumia 950 and 950XL, on its online store. According …
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Matt Elliott/CNET The humble Notes app in OS X received an update with El Capitan, getting a toolbar along its top edge and welcoming more types of media files. Let’s start with my favorite new feature of Notes, which can be found in its new toolbar. The Checklist button will be met with open arms by anyone who gets through …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Spotlight has expanded its reach with OS X El Capitan and has a greater ability to understand you, both welcome developments. The search agent for OS X now pulls in results for weather, sports and stock information, and it can also perform Web searches for Vimeo and YouTube videos. In addition, it lets you use natural language to …
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The ELAC Debut B6 (left), and Debut B5 (right) speakers Steve Guttenberg/CNET I regularly receive emails from readers requesting reviews of affordable speakers. I would love to do more, but great-sounding budget speakers are pretty rare. When I find one, I jump on it! When I first reviewed the Andrew Jones-designed, seriously affordable Pioneer speakers back in 2011 they blew …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Enlarge Image TigerDirect Hey, is it Black Friday already? Sure feels like it, because… For a limited time, and while supplies last, TigerDirect has the HKC Innoview 24-inch LED monitor for $79.99, plus …
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Enlarge Image Forcite Alpine There have been plenty of developments this year that have been making our homes smarter, but now an innovative Australian company is bringing new tech to the snowfield. On Wednesday, Forcite Helmet Systems launched a Kickstarter, which it hopes will raise $200,000 to help develop and manufacturer a line of “smart helmets” for snow sports. The …
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