Now playing: Watch this: New on Amazon and free TV on iTunes for April 2015 1:46 April brings lots of new content to your screens. The biggest news is that the for the first time ever starting April 10. Each movie costs around $20, but some sites are offering a discount if you buy the …
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Sarah Tew/CNET The Jawbone Up3 is alive, but not all is well. The company announced on Thursday that it will begin fulfilling preorders from US customers on April 20. Jawbone expects all preorders to ship no later than mid-May, and soon after it will begin fulfilling new orders. The Up3 was announced this past November and was originally slated to …
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Wait to preorder the Apple Watch, and you may wait a long time for delivery. Apple If you plan to be among the first wave of people buying an Apple Watch, you may also have to plan for a wait before it’s in your hands. The Apple Watch, the first wearable gadget from the iPhone maker, will first become available …
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The free Mophie Space 2.0 app for iOS and Android has been redesigned to work with or without Mophie hardware. Mophie Mophie doesn’t want you to think of it just as hardware company anymore. Not that it isn’t making new hardware — more on that in a minute — but with the release of Space 2.0, its free app for …
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LinkedIn is buying online training site Lynda.com LinkedIn LinkedIn said Thursday it plans to purchase online training site Lynda.com, a move designed to help its members more easily learn the right professional skills. The deal, for around $1.5 billion with approximately 52 percent in cash and 48 percent in stock, would be the professional network’s largest acquisition to date. Lynda.com …
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The Apple Watch will go on sale at midnight Friday. CNET Apple’s online store went offline Thursday with its familiar Schwarzenegger-esque “We’ll be back” message ahead of the expected midnight rush to order the Apple Watch. Apple will start taking preorders for its first wearable, which costs from $349, £299 or AU$499 all the way up to $17,000, £13,500 or …
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Apple has expanded retail support for Apple Pay. James Martin/CNET Apple has expanded support for Apple Pay to 10 more merchants. An update of the Apple Pay page on Wednesday spotted by AppleInsider shows the addition of the ten new retailers, including Acme, Davis Food & Drug, Firehouse Subs, GameStop, Luby’s, Rubio’s and T-Mobile. Further, basketball fans can now use …
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I may not be the biggest fan of Broadway musicals, but when a friend introduced me to the Associate Music Director “The Book of Mormon“, Adam Ben-David, we really hit it off. I was curious about how he got his start, and his answer took me by surprise, “I was thinking about ways to make a living as a musician, …
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HP Lately I’ve been all about the Chromebooks, but for many folks it’s inconvenient — if not downright impossible — to break away from the Windows world. There may be software you need to run, peripherals you need to use and so on — any or all of which might disqualify a Chromebook as your next laptop. Fortunately, you can …
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Skype Translator has expanded its language skills. Microsoft Skype’s new translator can now speak Italian and Mandarin. In a blog post published Wednesday, Yasmin Khan, who handles marketing for the Internet-calling service, said Italian was added to the translator’s list of languages based on the interest of people who signed up for the Skype Translator preview program. But adding Italian …
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Move your receipts to the cloud with apps like Evernote. Photo by Nicole Cozma/CNET Editors’ note, November 26, 2014:This How To post was originally published on April 23, 2014, and has been updated to include new information. Some receipts don’t offer much information at all — like those from individually owned gift shops or gas stations. Generally there’s a date, …
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Moving beyond e-book subscriptions, startup Oyster will now sell digital titles outright in a bid to rival Amazon. Oyster Oyster, a subscription service for e-books that launched a year and a half ago, is expanding into online retail with an e-book store set to spar with Amazon’s. Until Wednesday, Oyster only sold consumers a subscription book service for $9.95 a …
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UPDATE: DJI has announced the Phantom 3 drone. Read CNET’s hands-on coverage for more detail. DJI, maker of the popular Phantom quadcopters for aerial photography, is holding concurrent invite-only events in New York, London and Munich on Wednesday, April 8. The company posted the cryptic video above to tease the event, but has otherwise been tight-lipped about what’s coming. CNET …
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HTC is launching the HTC One M9+ to Chinese consumers. HTC HTC will launch a bigger and beefier version of its upcoming M9 phone in China. But don’t get too excited if you live in North America or Europe. Announced Wednesday in a blog post, the HTC One M9+ offers a 5.2-inch screen with 2K resolution and is powered by …
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Enlarge ImageAround 100 apps will be available at launch with many more on the way. CNET The Apple Watch won’t be available to the public until April 24 (preorders start Friday, April 10), but there are are already a good handful of apps for it. During my review period, I’ve accumulated 50 apps on my Apple Watch: some pre-loaded, others …
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