Models Kirsten Owen, left, and Ajak Deng showing off the MICA bracelet. Collier Schorr, via Intel Intel on Wednesday revealed its first luxury smart bracelet for women. Designed with fashion house Opening Ceremony and called MICA, or “My Intelligent Communication Accessory,” the high-end wearable includes a curved sapphire touchscreen display. CNET last week reported that …
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The new Galaxy Note 4 updates Samsung’s bigger-screen smartphone line, which it started in 2011. CNET Samsung on Wednesday unveiled the new Galaxy Note 4 , updating one of its marquee smartphone lines at a time when the Korean tech giant could well face stiffer competition in bigger-screen phones. The company also introduced the Note Edge smartphone, featuring a distinctive …
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Asus debuted its ZenWatch, an Android Wear device, at the IFA electronics show in Berlin. Stephen Shankland/CNET BERLIN — Asus embraced the old and the new on Wednesday, debuting its new ZenWatch smartwatch even as it tried to resuscitate the Netbook market with its new EeeBook X205 . At a press conference at the IFA consumer electronics show here, the …
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The Sony Xperia Z3. Andrew Hoyle/CNET The trade show sometimes called “Europe’s CES” is underway in Berlin, and Sony has come out swinging with a number of updates to its existing wares, coupled with a few new surprises. The star of the show is arguably the Sony Xperia Z3 , Sony’s new flagship Android smartphone. A 2.5Ghz quad-core CPU drives …
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The Xperia Z3 is Sony’s latest flagship smartphone, and will make its way to the US around the same as it does elsewhere. CNET For US fans of Sony smartphones, there will be no wait for the Xperia Z3. Sony confirmed Wednesday at the IFA electronics trade show in Berlin that its flagship smartphone will launch in the US through …
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NEW YORK — Samsung Electronics is getting serious about its Milk streaming music service. Samsung is pushing its Milk music service hard. Sarah Tew/CNET The company unveiled an expansion of the service, which started on its Galaxy line of smartphones and will now be expanded to Web TV and wearables. “It’s effectively a big-screen jukebox for the 21st century home,” …
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Location Labs offers phone controls that parents can use on their children’s smartphones. Location Labs/Screenshot by CNET AVG Technologies, the company behind the popular AVG security platform, has agreed to acquire Location Labs for up to $220 million, the companies announced Wednesday. Location Labs has carved out a distinctive niche in mobile security. While many companies, including AVG, offer anti-malware …
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Amazon Vice President Peter Larsen announces that the Fire TV streaming-media device is on sale in Germany and the UK. Stephen Shankland/CNET BERLIN — Amazon brought its Fire TV video-streaming system to the UK and Germany, expanding its global competition with Apple and Google. The Fire TV, previously available only in the US, is a compact set-top box that shows …
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Foxtel Foxtel has announced a number of major changes to its pay TV offering, including a new, lower-priced Entertainment Pack for AU$25 per month, a new video on demand service for complete catch-up seasons of popular shows, as well as the third iteration of Foxtel IQ. According to Foxtel CEO Richard Freudenstein, who announced the changes at the Astra 2014 …
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The AX900 series will be Panasonic’s first TV with full-array local dimming. Panasonic It’s been just about a year since Panasonic announced that it was killing off its plasma production, and with it the hopes and dreams of videophiles — at least ones that aren’t independently wealthy — everywhere. A couple of months later at CES 2014, the embattled company …
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Technics is best known for hi-fi and DJ equipment. Panasonic The European tech scene is welcoming back an old pal, as Panasonic revives its Technics high-end audio brand in the region, using this week’s IFA tech trade show in Berlin to crow about two new hi-fi system series. The new gear represents the first new hi-fi products under the Technics …
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By reacing out to apps, Cortana has created another advantage versus Siri. YouTube screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET When Apple announced the features of iOS 8 — expected to appear in a new generation of devices this fall — the company was lauded for offering more choice in cloud services, notification widgets, and software keyboards as well as allowing more services …
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David Singleton, director of engineering for Android Wear, says “several” Android Wear updates are coming before the end of the year. Stephen Lam/Getty Images MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — David Singleton, Google’s engineering director for Android Wear, the company’s platform tailor-made for wearable devices, is sitting in Google’s headquarters here playing air guitar. As he strums his right hand in front …
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Vodafone has announced it will be selling the 4G version of Samsung’s 10.5-inch Galaxy Tab, both for outright purchase and on contract. On contract, the Tab S is available on four different plans: AU$20 Mobile Broadband Plan: You’ll pay AU$47 a month all up, with 2.5GB of data and a total minimum cost over 24 months of AU$1128. The 12-month …
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Redmi 1S Xiaomi By any other measure, Xiaomi’s latest flash sale in India would have been a roaring success. The up and coming Chinese smartphone maker just announced that it sold out all 40,000 units of its new Redmi 1S Android phone. But the sale was over in just seconds, and that appears to have left some of its Indian …
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