Jason Cipriani/CNET After updating to Android 5.0 Lollipop, the first time you change the alert volume on your device you’re likely to notice a few new options just below the volume slider. The options are part of a new feature called Priority mode. Similar to Do Not Disturb found on various platforms and devices, Priority …
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Don’t plan on giving the Apple Watch as a Valentine’s Day gift. It seems it won’t arrive until after March 20. In 2015 we’re also expecting a rumored 13-inch ( or perhaps 12-inch) iPad . Watch CNET Update below for today’s buzz on Apple, smartwatches and new ways to pay with your wrist. MasterCard is working with Canadian tech company …
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Now playing: Watch this: Your smartphone becomes key to skipping the hotel front… 2:34 Forget losing your hotel key card in the small hours of the morning and facing a night sleeping in the corridor — thanks to a new Bluetooth-connected app, guests at Starwood Hotels will soon be able to access their room using their smartphone. Starwood Hotels, owner …
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Nic Healey/CNET Telstra has decided upon an official brand name for its expanded 700MHz 4G offering: 4GX. The new name was unveiled during the announcement that the service had been turned on in parts of Hobart and Brisbane. Ten new regional areas were also named, with the new spectrum band coming online this week: Albany, Ulladulla, Murray Bridge, Narrawallee, Shepparton, …
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Disney’s partnerships with both Google and Apple give it access to nearly all the mobile devices in the US. Google Disney is allowing you to watch “Frozen” on your Android device, no matter where you bought it. The media giant on Monday announced a partnership with Google that lets people stream movies they own from Disney, Pixar and Marvel — …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET Google’s Android 5.0 Lollipop is upon us. The update implements a completely new look called Material Design. With the new design language, some features we’ve grown accustomed to have either been moved, or the method to access them has changed a bit. One such feature is Quick Settings. For those unfamiliar, Quick Settings allows you to enable or …
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Google Calendar is just the latest mobile service the company has made over. Google Google is trying to make sure its Calendar app stays current. The Internet giant on Monday announced updates to the Calendar app for its Android operating system, as well as Apple’s iPhone. The software has a new look and set of features to automate events and …
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Apple Watch needs an evangelist — soon. James Martin/CNET Heads-up, job seekers: Apple wants to hire an Apple Watch evangelist. The ideal candidate needs to be an “iOS app development expert” and would join the company’s evangelism team, Apple posted on its jobs page late last week. In the role, the employee will encourage third-party app developers to build Apple …
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Microsoft/YouTube/screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Microsoft launched a new video spot this weekend that challenges the Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro convertible against Apple’s MacBook Air to see which one comes out on top. The caption for the video states: “It’s an epic dance-off between the new Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro and the MacBook Air . But does the MacBook Air stand …
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The Nokia Lumia 830 goes on sale with a discounted Fitbit Flex for a limited time. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Starting November 7 (that’s this Friday, by the way), AT&T customers will be able to buy a Nokia Lumia 830 smartphone bundled with a free Fitbit Flex fitness band. Related stories Nokia Lumia 830 hands-on Microsoft Lumia device ‘coming soon’, but cheap …
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Image by Pat Williams, CC BY 2.0 Unsolicited sexting, sharing unwanted “intimate images” and even threatening to distribute such images is now illegal in Victoria under new laws designed to protect digital privacy. The laws are part of a suite of changes to the Crimes Act [PDF], first announced in August, which create two new summary offences for “distribution of …
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A beautiful thing: Samsung’s PNF8500 is still the best-performing TV available over 55 inches in size. Earlier this year I called the Samsung PNF8500 series the last great plasma TV. In the last couple of days its price on Amazon has dropped to its lowest levels yet. The 51-incher now costs $1,198, the 60-incher $1,698 and the 64-incher $2,498. No, …
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A Nexus 9 with multiple user accounts available on the lock screen. Jason Cipriani/CNET With Android 5.0 Lollipop, Google is adding true multi-user support for tablets and smartphones alike. When Google released Android 4.2 it included multiple user accounts for tablets; however, smartphone users were left in the cold. (In Google’s defense, sharing a smartphone is far less likely than …
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Epson’s Kenichi Yamamoto and Junichi Watanabe. Aloysius Low/CNET With prices falling and screen sizes increasing, large-screen TVs have become quite the affordable commodity. In Singapore, a Toshiba 58-inch LED TV can be bought for as low as S$1,649 ($1,320), about half what a freshly minted graduate makes per month in the island state. So it’s interesting to note how bullish …
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A general view of GCHQ in Scarborough, England. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images The new top spy at Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters has a message for Silicon Valley: Stop helping terrorists. Robert Hannigan, the newly appointed director of Britain’s equivalent to the US National Security Agency, wrote a column the Financial Times denouncing tech companies’ efforts to protect against spying without legal …
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