Enlarge Image The Moto 360 comes in a variety of colors and materials and two sizes. Sarah Tew/CNET Motorola’s smartwatch head start has long since dissipated. When Motorola launched its Moto 360 a year ago, it turned heads as the first smartwatch that felt like a watch — one that employed premium materials such as …
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Now playing: Watch this: Change Spotify streaming quality settings to save data 0:42 If you have your Spotify, or any streaming service, running for hours a day, your monthly mobile data limit could be getting a workout. Here’s two tips on slowing things down when you’re on the road so you don’t burst your data cap wide open.
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Gazelle says it will beat the trade-in deal offered by Apple or your carrier for your old iPhone. But you’ll still want to shop around. CNET Gazelle, which offers cash back for trading in your used electronic devices, is offering a new, limited-time deal in which it’s vowing top dollars for your existing iPhone. Running from now through September 9, …
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Enlarge Image Intel’s Kirk Skaugen talks up the company’s new Skylake processors during an event at IFA in Berlin. Shara Tibken/CNET BERLIN — Intel on Wednesday officially took the wraps off its new Skylake processor family and showed off computers that use the chips. More than 800 systems will be launching around the world starting Wednesday, said Kirk Skaugen, senior …
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Acer took to IFA Berlin to push a full lineup of new gaming rigs, Chromebooks, convertible notebooks, desktops and monitors, kicking things off with the company’s Predator gaming product line. The company was joined at the conference by its sponsored e-sports team, TeamAcer, whose members provided early customer feedback, as well as research and development for the following products. Acer’s …
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A competitor to Waze claims in a lawsuit the driving directions app stole its data, unjustly beefing up its product before selling to Google. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in a San Francisco federal court, traffic information app maker PhantomAlert claims it discovered the theft when it found its proprietary information on Waze, which Google purchased in 2013 for a …
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Acer unveils a stackable PC and the PS4 is about to get even more awesome. Now playing: Watch this: Acer introduces a stackable, modular PC 2:35 CNET Update delivers the tech news you need in under three minutes. Watch Bridget Carey every afternoon for a breakdown of the big stories, hot devices, new apps, and what’s ahead. Subscribe to the …
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Enlarge Image Acer CEO Jason Chen (right) and another exec reveal the Predator 6 gaming smartphone during a press conference at IFA in Berlin. Shara Tibken/CNET BERLIN — Acer’s going after gamers with a new smartphone, a projector and other devices revealed here at the IFA electronics show. Jason Chen, the Taiwanese company’s CEO, showed off a new Predator 6 …
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It’s apparently the week to change one’s image. Verizon on Wednesday unveiled a redesigned logo that opts for a simpler, cleaner look with Verizon written in a small, black font next to a thin, red check mark. The change comes a day after Google introduced its own new logo with a thinner font that could be read on smaller mobile …
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Android remains top dog around the world but continues to shed market share in Europe. CNET Android remains by far the top mobile OS throughout the world, but its market share continues to lose ground except in the US. For the three months ended July, Android’s slice of the smartphone market for the top five European nations (France, Germany, Italy, …
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Looking to add a little comedy to your daily commute? A new partnership between Waze and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” puts the smooth, sultry sounds of Colbert on your smartphone as his voice guides you to your destination. Waze is a popular free community-based traffic app owned by Google that lets users report traffic, speed traps and other …
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Sony’s Xperia Z5 Premium smartphone is the first handset to use the same sky-high screen resolution as some of the most expensive TVs out there. That sounds impressive, but despite claims from Sony and others, 4K resolution on a phone-sized screen isn’t going to produce a drastically sharper, clearer image for viewing text, photos and videos. In fact, your eyes …
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Enlarge ImageSony will debut new devices on September 2 in Berlin. Sony Sony may no longer be the best-known Asian electronics maker, but it’s got plenty to share at this year’s IFA electronics show. The Japanese company is hosting a press conference at 4:15 p.m. local time on September 2 in Berlin (that translates to 10:15 a.m. ET or 7:15 …
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Narrative Announced at CES 2015 and expected to ship this month, the Narrative Clip 2 wearable camera — the world’s most wearable, according to the company — got a big bump in features from the original . And now you can add one more feature to the list: video capture. For $200 (approximately £130 or AU$245), the lightweight little clip-on …
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New versions of this iPad and iPad Mini are rumored to be unveiled during Apple’s launch event on September 9. Josh Miller/CNET Apple is expected to show off a new set of iPhones at its annual event next week, but it may have something more in store: the debut of its plus-sized iPad Pro. The tech giant will unveil both …
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