According to the Consumer Electronics Association, the average American household contains around 24 electronic gadgets. In Australia, there are 30 million mobile phones in use, while in the UK, each person buys three new electrical items every year. All those electronics leave a lot of waste behind once they are no longer needed. On top …
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One of Amazon’s fulfillment centers on the eve of Cyber Monday. James Martin/CNET Getting up before the sun for a spot of frenzied shopping on Thanksgiving weekend is starting to feel so last decade. That’s why some retailers are keeping online sales going long after the big holiday shopping days, experts say. Granted, the weekend did score big numbers, overall. …
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Struggling Sprint has a fresh plan up its sleeve to attract new customers in the roiling war waged over subscribers. The carrier is now vowing to slash monthly payments in half for customers who leave Verizon and AT&T for Sprint’s wireless service. Friday kicks off the Cut Your Bill in Half event, which will match new customers’ data from their …
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HTC’s next smartphone could be the Desire 620. nixanbal.com HTC could soon introduce another member of the Desire family, according to information obtained by Bulgarian site Nixanbal. Related Links 4G LTE phones don’t come much cheaper than this HTC Desire Eye review HTC’s mid-tier Desire family debuts in US Although the original link has since been removed, a cached version …
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Net Applications Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 continues to win over more desktop users. For the month of November, Windows 8.1 scored 12.1 percent of all Web traffic as seen by Net Applications, up from 10.9 percent in October and just 6.67 percent in September. At the same time, the no-longer-supported Windows XP continues to see its share of traffic dwindle. Last …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET Google introduced a handy feature called Smart Lock in Android 5.0 Lollipop. When enabled, Smart Lock will prevent your device from requiring a pin or pattern to unlock your device so long as it’s connected to an approved Bluetooth device or near-field communications (NFC) tag. While convenient, there are still times when you might want to temporarily lock …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET There’s no shortage of reasons one would need to take a screenshot on an iOS device. As such, the amount of unnecessary screenshots often found cluttering our Camera Roll is an annoyance. And going through one-by-one, tapping and selecting screenshots to delete is annoying (not to mention time consuming). Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET Enter Screeny, a simple iOS …
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Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET Holiday stress got you down? How about job stress? Travel stress? Facing-another-dreary-day stress? Here’s my favorite: you’re having trouble sleeping, which stresses you out, so then you have even greater trouble sleeping. Whatever’s ailing your brain, mindfulness meditation can help. A lot. And a great place to start is with Buddhify 2, an app for Android …
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The iPhone might not account for the most shipments, but it will generate serious revenue. Sarah Tew Android continues to dominate the smartphone business and will likely do so for the foreseeable future, new data from research firm IDC shows. But overall growth in the smartphone market is slowing. Total Android shipments this year are expected to hit 1.06 billion …
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David Carnoy/CNET How did online sales fare on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday? The results are mostly positive, though shoppers now seem more willing to wait for the right deal. Thanksgiving Day sales online rose 14.3 percent over those from 2013 , according to IBM’s 2014 Black Friday report, released on Saturday. Online sales on Black Friday increased 9.5 percent …
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Glassketball: Sacramento Kings point guard Ray McCallum Jr. dunks while wearing Google Glass. James Martin/CNET Intel has its eyes on one of the biggest prizes in wearable technology as reports say it will provide the chip for the next generation of Google Glass. The current model of Glass contains a processor made by Texas Instruments. Left behind in the market …
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Samsung mobile chief J.K. Shin Stephen Shankland/CNET Samsung’s J.K. Shin is still in charge of the mobile division despite earlier rumors that he could be forced to take the fall for the company’s weak smartphone sales, The Wall Street Journal said on Monday. Shin, who runs Samsung’s mobile business, will maintain his position, the Journal said, based on information from …
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Winter starts on Tuesday, “Game of Thrones” fans. That’s when you’ll be able to pick up a sword and join House Forrester as it attempts to save itself from an almost certain doom. Telltale Games has announced that “Iron from Ice,” the first episode of the company’s six-episode “Game of Thrones” video game, will launch on Tuesday for both PC …
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Sarah Tew/CNET Skipping the Black Friday crowds doesn’t mean you have to miss out on the best deals. Cyber Monday is just as good for scoring great deals ahead of the holidays, and lots of hot tech products can be had for low prices online–all from the comfort of your couch. We’re tracking all the tech deals we find here, …
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SnapBox The idea behind it is pretty simple: Give people an easy, affordable way to turn their smartphone or other snapshots into high-quality canvas prints and ship them fast. That’s exactly what SnapBox delivered when it started up back in 2012. This year, though, it has grown its print options to include prints to fine art paper, lustre photo paper, …
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