Years after first filing for an IPO, GoDaddy on Wednesday became a publicly traded company. GoDaddy GoDaddy, the website registration and hosting service, expects to raise hundreds of millions of dollars on Wednesday in a long-planned initial public offering. The company on Wednesday priced its shares at $20, above its previously predicted range of $17 …
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The EE Power Bar powers up your phone on the move. EE You’re out and about — and your battery’s giving out. With no charger to hand and no sockets in easy reach you’d be in trouble, but EE is giving customers a power boost with a free EE power bar. The power bar is a small portable charger with …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET During the HTC Mobile World Congress event where the HTC One M9 was announced, one of the key features demonstrated on stage was the ability to personalize the device with a new Themes app. This app allows you to skip out on deciding which Android launcher, and its accompanying icon packs, you like the most (though you can …
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Matt Elliott/CNET After launching last fall and subsequently getting pulled, the Launcher app from Cromulent Labs recently returned to the App Store. The app, the full name of which is Launcher with Notification Center Widget, is free and universal and lets you launch apps and actions from the the iOS Notification Center. A $3.99 | £2.99 | AU$4.99 in-app purchase …
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Cricket’s new kit works with any unlocked GSM phone. Cricket Cricket Wireless is making it even easier for prospective customers to come over to its network — and no, this one’s no April Fools’ joke. Related Links Cricket’s Deezer music partnership rises from the ashes of Muve Music Cricket dials up new Moto E for next smartphone Why I ditched …
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Lynn La/CNET Verizon came under fire this past January for bundling what privacy advocates called a “supercookie” with every smartphone. Mobile devices on the carrier’s network include what the company calls a Unique Identifier Header, or UIDH. This is a unique tracking code that allows the carrier to monitor your online activities and analyze your interests. This data is then …
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Nicole Cozma/CNET An update rolling out to the Inbox by Gmail app is allowing users to set a custom time and date for snoozed email reminders. But did you know that you can also adjust the preset time reminders in the app? Let’s say your day starts at 9 a.m., but the preset time for a morning reminder is 8 …
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The Samsung SSD 850 Evo M.2 drive. Dong Ngo/CNET If you’ve been pining for the performance and features of the Samsung SSD 850 Evo drive inside your ultrabook, here’s some good news: Samsung today announced smaller mSATA and M.2 versions of its popular 2.5-inch solid-state drive. The M.2 drive is designed to fit high-end ultraportable laptops. The drive uses a …
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Google is making a push to get people to use its Chrome operating system, which powers its Chromebook laptops. Richard Nieva/CNET Move over, Android. Google’s mobile operating system may be the most popular software in the world for powering phones and tablets. But Google is also making a push for its other operating system, Chrome OS, which mostly powers laptop …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Think fast: What type of graphics card do you have? How much hard-drive space is free on your work laptop? How fast is your processor? The average person probably doesn’t know the answers to these questions off the top of his or her head — and that makes sense. But if you’re looking to upgrade, or you’re …
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screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Anyone looking to unload an Android or BlackBerry smartphone can now turn to Apple. The company expanded its trade-in program on Monday to accept certain models of rival phones, including Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone handsets. Your old phone scores you store credit, which you can then use to purchase a new iPhone 5c, iPhone 6 …
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Image by Nicolas Raymond, CC BY 2.0 After the Federal Government tabled new legislation to allow the blocking of sites facilitating piracy, legal and copyright experts have raised concerns that VPN providers could be swept up in the net. The Attorney-General introduced legislation to Parliament in March which, if passed, would allow rights holders in Australia to seek a Federal …
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Voice calling is now available to all WhatApps users. WhatsApp WhatsApp users on Android can now all tap into the app’s new voice-calling feature. Rolled out in February to a small number of people, the call feature then expanded to invitation-only by those who were able to get the feature. Now it’s available to all Android phone users. There’s just …
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In an initial trial involving 14 people, the pen improved writing 86 percent of the time, according to the maker of the ARC. YouTube/screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET A new vibrating pen may be the key to improving the writing of people who have Parkinson’s disease. Fashioned by British design firm Dopa Solution, the ARC pen tries to resolve the motor …
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Infinit on Windows Nicole Cozma/CNET When you want to share a file with your mobile device, or even another computer, you may use cloud storage to get the job done. While this is a decent solution, it falls short in requiring you to wait for the file to transfer twice (the uploading and the downloading). Additionally, most cloud services have …
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