Verizon was able to keep its customer growth engine humming even as it narrowly missed earnings expectations for the third quarter. Verizon The nation’s largest wireless carrier by subscriber base posted earnings of 89 cents a share and revenue of $31.59 billion, compared with Wall Street’s average forecast of 90 cents a share and $31.58 …
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Rick Broida/CNET There’s a new build of the Windows 10 Technical Preview available, for you enterprising early adopters who jumped on the first release. Build 9860 (up from Build 9841) adds a host of new features, squashes some bugs and likely brews up a few new ones. Microsoft says that there are nearly 7,000 new improvements and fixes since the …
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Nokia’s Here mapping app is now available in a beta version on all Android phones. Here.com screenshot by CNET Nokia has launched its Here mapping app for Android on all smartphones, the company said Tuesday. The move provides more distribution than the first effort with Here, which focused only on Samsung Galaxy smartphones. When Nokia sold its handset business to …
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“Dallas Buyers Club”. Focus Features iiNet is being taken to the Federal Court by the rights holders of the Oscar-winning “Dallas Buyers Club” to reveal the personal details of customers alleged to have pirated the film. The ISP revealed the details of the law suit in a blog post today, revealing that Dallas Buyers Club LLC — the owners of …
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Apple’s new iPhone 6 handsets. CNET The iPhone 6 is likely to score additional torrents of customers upgrading, but quite yet. In an investors note released Tuesday, analyst Katy Huberty pointed to estimates that say only half of the 250 million owners of the iPhone 4S and older iPhones will upgrade to the iPhone 6 this year. As such, that …
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Apple CEO Tim Cook boasts of Apple’s record iPhone 6 and 6 Plus sales during last week’s iPad and Mac launch. Tim Stevens/CNET In the fiscal fourth quarter, almost more than any other, Apple showed that it’s still “the iPhone company.” The Cupertino, Calif., electronics giant on Monday reported a blowout September quarter — largely thanks to strong smartphone demand. …
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Sceptre Is it Black Friday already? Oh, right, every day is Black Friday. If you need proof, look no further than this amazing deal, which comes to us on a Tuesday. In October. For a limited time, and while supplies last, Amazon has the Sceptre X409BV-FHDR 39-inch LED HDTV for $199.99, shipped. This model normally sells for at least $40 …
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Apple debuted its portable music player in October 2001. Thirteen years later, the iPod classic was discontinued and removed from Apple’s online store. Josh Miller/CNET Apple may say it’s trying to be more open, but it’s taking the opposite track with its financial reports. The Cupertino, Calif., electronics giant on Monday said it plans to change how it breaks out …
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On Monday, Apple released iOS 8.1, which enabled the company’s new payment system, Apple Pay, on the NFC-equipped iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. But how does the system actually work, you ask? Comedian Jimmy Kimmel, of all people, definitively shows you how to use Apple Pay. Related Links Can a phone replace your wallet? I went shopping to find out. …
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No sleight of hand necessary with the Taylor TEMPerfect Butter Tray. Sur La Table We hardly think about it, perhaps because it happens on a regular basis, but everything we do in the kitchen is about change. That big metal box that opens and closes is the center of it all. No, not the refrigerator — that’s probably the one …
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Apple/USPTO Apple wants to turn your iPhone into an advanced remote control for your car, but this idea may go a bit further than current such devices. Published on Tuesday by the US Patent and Trademark Office, a patent application called “Accessory control with geo-fencing” imagines a virtual field or boundary around your car known as a geofence. By detecting …
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The Xbox One November update will let you customize your background. Microsoft Microsoft is trying to help Xbox One owners discover new TV shows and more courtesy of the upcoming November update. In an Xbox Wire blog posted on Monday, Microsoft’s Larry Hyrb, aka Major Nelson, described in details all the features headed to Xbox One users in next month’s …
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Some models of the Apple Watch will use sapphire glass. James Martin/CNET Apple and would-be sapphire supplier GT Advanced Technologies revealed on Tuesday that they signed an agreement for an “amicable parting of the ways.” Under the deal, GT Advanced will try to sell more than 2,000 furnaces from its Mesa, Ariz., sapphire plant to pay back the debt it …
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Firebase Google has acquired Firebase, a company that offers developers a mechanism to write mobile and Web-based apps that stay in sync with each other. The Firebase employees will become part of Google’s cloud-computing team, Google said Tuesday. Firebase offers a service that lets apps running in browsers or on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android mobile operating systems work in …
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Image by Alexandre Normand, CC BY 2.0 The AFP has confirmed it made a number of requests to block websites suspected of distributing malware, under a sub-section of the Telecommunications Act traditionally reserved for blocking child pornography sites. The disclosure came in the Australian Federal Police’s submission to a Parliamentary inquiry on Section 313 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 — …
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