Now playing: Watch this: Apple Watch brings iPhone functionality to your wrist 5:00 Wanna-be Apple Watch developers, meet WatchKit. Along with announcing the Apple Watch for consumers at its product event Tuesday, Apple also said it will help developers make apps and services for the smartwatch, with its new WatchKit. Apple announced WatchKit to help …
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Joshua Goldman/CNET The TiVo Mini lets you borrow tuners from a TiVo Roamio or four-tuner Premiere DVR to stream content to additional rooms without the need to buy more DVRs. It’s a generally excellent device and it’s well priced at $99, but the rub is TiVo requires either a $5.99 monthly subscription fee or a $149 lifetime fee. That is …
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The Moto 360 sporting the Secret Agent Watchface, a design that borrows from the wrist gadget featured in the N64 Bond classic GoldenEye 007. Phandroid The Moto 360 has only been out in the wild for less than a week now after gadget reviewers and Android enthusiasts took home units from Motorola’s Chicago launch event. Yet that was plenty of …
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The new Moto G improves upon the original, but retains the same low price. It’s been a winner for Motorola. Sarah Tew/CNET For one Motorola Mobility employee, it was customer feedback of the most extreme kind. About six months ago, members of a research team from Motorola traveled from Chicago and Sunnyvale, Calif., to an undisclosed city in the heartland …
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick defends his company’s aggressive business tactics. D Dipasupil, FilmMagic/Getty Images Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber, said it’s not the controversial ride-sharing service’s fault that everyone has a problem with his company. Uber is just misunderstood. “When people start to perceive you as the big guy, you’re not allowed to be scrappy fierce,” he said at the …
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AT&T Digital Life allows you to control your home through a single app on your smartphone or tablet. Seth Rosenblatt/CNET LAS VEGAS — AT&T’s Digital Life home automation and security platform has legs, both domestically and internationally. AT&T and Spanish telecommunications Telefonica said on Monday that Telefonica would begin testing out the Digital Life smart life service in its own …
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CNET The widely anticipated iPhone 6 could help trigger record iPhone sales — as many as 235 million units — in fiscal 2015. At least, that’s the number seen in the crystal ball of JP Morgan analyst Rod Hall. In an investors note released Monday, Hall said that the most bullish prediction at this point calls for 235 million iPhones …
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Glenn Lurie, CEO of AT&T Mobility, announces trials of Digital Life Care this year. Roger Cheng/CNET LAS VEGAS — AT&T plans to expand its home security and automation service, called Digital Life, to include elderly care. The company made the announcement at a Digital Life showcase home outside the main strip a day before the CTIA industry trade show kicks …
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The Amazon Fire Phone with a two-year contract now costs less than a candy bar. James Martin/CNET The Amazon Fire Phone can now be had for less than a buck. The e-commerce giant said Monday it’s now offering the 32-gigabyte version of its first smartphone, which went on sale just two months ago, for 99 cents with a two-year contract, …
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The iPad 2 remains the most popular version of Apple’s tablet. James Martin/CNET The iPhone 5 and iPad 2 remain the most popular models among consumers, says a new report. Looking at the number of iPhone models detected on its mobile network, Localytics pegged the iPhone 5 at a 27 percent share followed by last year’s iPhone 5S with a …
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Will NFC finally make its ways to the iPhone? CNET Apple will finally dive into the mobile-payments market with NFC tech for the iPhone 6 — and for an iWatch — according to a report published Sunday by a banking news site. Citing “sources close to Apple and with knowledge of Apple’s plans for its new smartphone,” Bank Innovation reported …
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See the “views” section under the video. Facebook Facebook videos will soon look a bit more like YouTube content with the addition of a counter, the social network announced Sunday. Starting this week, videos posted to Facebook will include a view count, allowing both those who posted the content and those who are viewing it to see how many views …
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Ready, player two? Cricket Wireless is. The prepaid carrier, now owned by AT&T, announced a new partnership on Monday that will just about double its retail footprint: video game store GameStop will start selling phones on Cricket’s network. Stores in Dallas and Los Angeles have been running the pilot program for roughly 9 months already. The plan is to rapidly …
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Josh Miller/CNET Amazon’s first smartphone, the Fire Phone , is now available to preorder in the UK — but it’s exclusively available on contract from O2. Amazon won’t be selling the phone as a SIM-free version, at least at launch. The phone will be free on O2’s Refresh contracts starting at £33 per month, which will come with 2GB of …
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Optus In anticipation of Apple’s upcoming iPhone launch and off the back of a raft of new smartphone releases at IFA last week, Optus is offering up to AU$450 in incentives for new customers to exit their old contract and upgrade to a new device on a 24-month Optus plan. The telco has also increased data inclusions on its $80 …
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