Samsung When it comes to buying a smallish TV or monitor, the sweet spot has long been 22 inches. And it doesn’t get much sweeter than today’s deal. For a limited time, and while supplies last, Amazon has the Samsung UN22F5000 22-Inch LED HDTV for $142.49 shipped. Original MSRP: $279.99. And it’s around $180 at …
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Murfie offers ridiculously cheap, and legal, FLAC downloads and music streaming. Screenshot by Ty Pendlebury/CNET Online music storage and second-hand retailer Murfie has announced that customers can now buy CDs from any online service and ship them directly to their Murfie collections. Related stories Murfie and Voco debut lossless streaming Top 6 sites for buying FLAC music Previously you would …
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Lucy is here for her medication. TedGrowing/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET How can you ever teach kids about real life? You know they’re going to encounter it before you know it. And you know there’s no guaranteed method of preparing them. There is, however, a way to ease them gently into certain aspects. Why, USA Today tells me there’s a …
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Lynn La/CNET Sprint has agreed to pay the US government $7.5 million in a record settlement concerning the national “Do Not Call” list. The Federal Communications Commission announced Monday that its Enforcement Bureau and Sprint came to an agreement regarding the phone company’s continued phone and text message marketing to people who had signed up to be on the Do …
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Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Mini becomes AT&T’s first phone with HD Voice. James Martin/CNET The Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini may not be the sexiest phone to showcase the launch of AT&T’s new Voice over LTE network, but starting May 23, this smaller, cheaper Android handset becomes the carrier’s first device with HD Voice. Selling at $50 with a new, two-year contract …
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Verizon Wireless is having a little marketing fun on Monday. The company announced the launch of its XLTE service. Verizon is trying to pitch XLTE as an offering customers should get excited about, but it’s really just a rebranding. Rather than use the clunky AWS spectrum and 700MHz spectrum to describe the service, Verizon will now use XLTE. Devices capable …
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Samsung Galaxy S5. Andrew Hoyle/CNET The new biometric technology that Samsung is eying may actually have something to do with eyes. Speaking to analysts at an investor forum Monday, Samsung Senior Vice President Rhee In-jong said his company is examining ways to increase the use of biometrics in smartphones. He indicated that Samsung is especially interested in “iris detection,” which …
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CNET Mobile phone buyers are increasingly financing their devices in a move away from the standard subsidized model, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. In a recent survey of 1,500 US consumers, the market research firm found that as of March, around 23 percent had chosen to finance their phones. That number showed an ongoing gain from around 16 percent …
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Walmart will soon carry the HP Slate 7 HD. James Martin/CNET T-Mobile is rolling out a pair of affordable tablets at Walmart stores nationwide with ” free data for life.” Each slate comes with 200MB of data per month for the lifespan of the tablet, and if that’s not enough, additional data plans start at $10. Walmart will offer the …
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CNET Looking to snag Samsung’s new Galaxy S5? You can shave $100 off the price at Best Buy by trading in your old phone. A new promotion that started Sunday, May 18, and runs through Saturday, May 31, guarantees a $100 trade-in credit for any working smartphone. Available in-store only, the credit is good toward a Galaxy S5 from AT&T, …
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Virgin Mobile offers some unbeatable iPhone deals, but beware the hassles of getting a replacement. Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET Back in March, having decided that Android wasn’t for me, I decided to buy an iPhone 5S from Virgin Mobile. The deal was too good to pass up: 30 percent off the phone itself and $30 per month for service — …
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Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang shows off the company’s Shield gaming device at Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. Shara Tibken/CNET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Nvidia is shifting gears again. The company, which has risen to prominence by creating graphic processing units, or GPUs, for computers, has long been looking for other avenues of growth. It had sought to break into …
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The market for smartwatches like the Samsung Gear 2 more than doubled in Q1 2014. Sarah Tew/CNET Half a million Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatches have been dispatched into the world this year, with Samsung hogging 70 percent of the fast-growing market for connected timepieces. Analysts Strategy Analytics have crunched the numbers for the wrist-worn wearable devices set to be the …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung’s Galaxy S5 rises to the top 4:42 If prepaid is the name of your game, you’ll be happy to know that as of Monday, Sprint has added the Samsung Galaxy S5 to its Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile prepaid networks. The top-its-class Android 4.4 KitKat smartphone will cost $600 off-contract and will ride the enhanced …
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BT is launching 4G in summer, for business users. Shutterstock Whether you’re a businessman or a business, man, BT is one step closer to going 4G. You can now sign up to be kept in the loop when BT’s first 4G service launches this summer, with a consumer service to follow some time in the next year. BT’s super-fast 4G …
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