Samsung will introduce new tablets at an event in New York. Screenshot by Roger Cheng/CNET It’s tablet time. Samsung will show off its newest device during an event Thursday at Madison Square Garden in New York. The invitation didn’t give many details but included the tagline “Tab Into Color” — which indicates we’ll see a …
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James Martin/CNET China-based phone maker ZTE believes the key to its future success is to take on flagship smartphones, according to a new report. Speaking to Reuters in an interview published Monday, ZTE Executive Vice President Zeng Xuezong said that over the next couple of years, his company plans to invest in “more and more premium smartphones.” He added that …
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CNET Let me just start by saying: Google Chromecast, $35; Roku 1, $50; Apple TV, $100. If you’re looking for a media streamer, you’re probably thinking I’m nuts right about now. Ah, but if you already own an iDevice of some kind, meaning you’re already vested in the Apple ecosystem, I would argue that an Apple TV is the box …
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Adam Cahan, Yahoo’s SVP of mobile and emerging products, thinks Yahoo’s mobile efforts are on the right track. Brian Ach/Getty Images SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Adam Cahan was handpicked by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to lead the effort to transform the Internet portal into a mobile-first company. Nineteen months into that mission, Cahan, who joined Yahoo when it bought his “second …
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Asus Transformer Book V: Android and Windows reside in the phone and tablet, respectively. Aloysius Low/CNET If at first you don’t succeed. Asus is taking another crack at dual-OS device. And this time it probably found a way to get around objections from Microsoft and Google. First, a little background. Asus launched a dual Windows 8.1-Android tablet-laptop at CES in …
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Yahoo mobile chief Adam Cahan says the company is “rounding the corner” on its mobile and monetization efforts. Ethan Miller, Getty Images When Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer took Adam Cahan aside almost two years ago and asked him to start a new mobile division, he wasn’t sure it was the right idea. It’s not that he disagreed with Mayer’s plan …
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The SiMEye head-mounted display. Remind you of anything? Nic Healey/CNET TAIPEI, Taiwan — At the start of Computex I wrote about the changing face of the trade show and, in particular, the fact that 49 exhibitors were set to show wearable tech this year. I didn’t count the actual number I ended up checking out — there are two main …
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A lot can be deduced from announcements this week from Apple CEO Tim Cook and others. Tim Stevens/CNET Contrary to some expectations, an iWatch software development kit was not announced this week at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Alas. Even if such an SDK exists or is in the works, providing information about it would simply be too big a hint …
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Amazon is inviting the public to try for an event ticket. Amazon Amazon has managed to keep a reasonably tight lid on its upcoming mystery gadget, but all signs point to a smartphone . Not surprisingly, the rumor mill has been pumping out potential specs and mock-ups for months. We’ll know for sure what’s up on June 18 when Amazon …
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When you hand a friend or family member your iPhone so he or she can look at a photo or two, you don’t necessarily want that person to have unfettered access to your entire photo library. Perhaps your mom swipes from cute photos taken at Sunday brunch to the last photos you took at the conclusion of a wild Saturday …
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Josh Lowensohn/CNET Intel has had practically no presence in the smartphone chip market over the last several years, but that could change in 2015, the company’s chief executive told Recode in an interview published Friday. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich acknowledged to Recode that his company has a minuscule stake in the smartphone chip market at the moment, but said that …
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These toilets are especially difficult to maneuver. AutisticGlobetrotting/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET No, I’m not going to show you the pictures. We’ll simply discuss the philosophy here. The facts appear to be these: a man in the city of Jianyang in Sichuan province, China, availed himself of the public restroom. In circumstances that might be familiar to some, at the …
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Tim Stevens/CNET Buy an item online via your future iOS 8-enabled iPhone or iPad, and you’ll be able to scan in your credit card information to seal the deal. Unveiled at the Wordwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple’s upcoming new version of iOS will add a new feature to Safari for scanning a credit card using the on-board camera, as …
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Wikimedia Commons People all over the world are preparing for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The tournament is set to begin on June 12 in Brazil and will run through the middle of July. In the United States, all 64 matches will be broadcast live in English on ABC, ESPN, and ESPN 2, and in Portuguese on ESPN Deportes. ESPN …
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An alleged photo of Google’s rumored Nexus 8 tablet. MyDrivers.com Google’s much-rumored Nexus 8 tablet may have just popped up online via a couple of spilled photos and some key details. Photos leaked by Chinese website Mydrivers.com show what is purportedly the Nexus 8 tablet wrapped up snugly in an outer case, according to G for Games. Most of the …
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