Lego will release its new Sandcrawler set in May. It will cost $300. Lego When I saw “Star Wars” the first time, on opening day in 1977, I had to wait in line for more than an hour to get in. Which meant that by the time I entered the theater — San Francisco’s famous …
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Ian C. Rogers/Beats/fistfulayen.com Streaming-music service Beats Music is opening up some of its programming to outsiders, with the goal of proliferating the new $120-a-year subscription player in the broader online universe. “If you’re willing to pay $100 a year for music, which in my experience for all the world’s music is a tremendous bargain, you should have access to music …
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For some of you, there’s no such thing as too huge when it comes to smartphone screens. The larger the display, the more space you have for reading e-books and news stories, playing games, and immersing yourself in photos and video graphics. Whether you have enormous mitts, the desire for a smartphone that performs tablet functions, or just a penchant …
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Motorola now lets college sports fans design a custom Moto X with school colors and cases. Motorola Motorola on Friday introduced a number of new features to the Moto Maker phone customization experience. Related stories Motorola’s new Moto X coming this summer? Moto X’s Moto Maker unmasked Moto X review Effective immediately, customers who design their custom Moto X smartphone …
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Don’t look now, but the Nexus smartphone rumor mill is churning yet again. According to a recent Gizmodo Germany (translate) report, Google has tasked LG once again with designing the next-gen Nexus handset. Related stories: Google Barge arriving in Stockton this morning Google exec: Android adoption most successful in history Shorten, track URLs on Android with Google URL Shortener Details, …
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Jawbone, maker of the popular Up24 fitness tracker, has just launched two new pieces of mobile software coded to foster better sleep. Called Up Coffee and Up 3.1, one keeps an eye on your caffeine intake, while the other strives to correlate personal physical movement with sleep performance. To be clear, the Up application isn’t completely novel; rather it’s an …
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Apple Apple and Google are tops in the mobile space, according to new data from research firm ComScore. Apple was the No. 1 smartphone manufacturer, with its iPhones capturing 41.6 of the US market during the three months ended January 2014, said ComScore. That figure is an average of the three months and bests the 40.6 percent average Apple posted …
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Six months on from its well-received launch, Sony’s zhuzhed up its top-notch Z1 with the Xperia Z2, one of the highlights of Mobile World Congress last week. Phones 4U has pumped out some deals on this sharp new blower, starting at £47 per month for a free handset. That’s on a two-year Vodafone contract with 3GB of data on its …
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The tablet market is shifting into a more mature phase, and that figures to be a good thing for Microsoft. Market researcher IDC on Thursday forecast a dramatic slowdown in the expansion of the worldwide market for tablets, with the growth rate simmering at 19.4 percent in 2014, down from a sizzling growth rate of 51.6 percent last year. The …
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The Wello doubles as an iPhone case and health monitor. Azoi Your iPhone may be able to play doctor with help from a $199 case. Made by consumer-electronics company Azoi, a smartphone case called Wello aims to measure a range of vitals, including your blood pressure, electrocardiography (ECG), heart rate, blood oxygen, temperature, and lung function. Azoi claims the measurements …
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T-Mobile CEO John Legere Lori Grunin/CNET T-Mobile is offering its customers a free data upgrade. The company announced Friday that it is doubling the amount of data customers can use per month on its standard 4G LTE service plan for no additional cost. So instead of getting 500MB of data per month at the full 4G LTE speed for $50 …
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Credit: Orangeornate/Shutterstock With Three up and running in London, and even Giffgaff set to offer 4G in the next few weeks, 4G has hit the mainstream in the UK. Most new smartphones are 4G-capable, so if you’re shopping for a new contract, which networks have the best deals? Let’s have a look. Value for money I’m going to look only …
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WeTransfer There are a number of ways — e-mail, text, iCloud, Photo Stream, Dropbox, and social networking to name a handful of popular options — to share iPhone photos. There are also a number of ways — email, text, iCloud, YouTube, Vimeo, and social networking to name a few — to share iPhone videos. There may not be an easier …
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The device may complement Samsung’s Heart Rate Monitor band. Sarah Tew/CNET Samsung is working a new, unannounced product through the regulatory process. The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday published files submitted recently by Samsung showing details on what the company is calling an “activity tracker.” The product number doesn’t match up with any fitness devices shown off so far this …
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Joan E. Solsman/CNET Samsung is taking on Apple’s iTunes Radio, as well as Pandora, Spotify, and a host of other companies in the competitive streaming music business, but it picked an innocuous name to do it. Milk Music, launched Friday and available now in the Google Play store, is Samsung’s latest foray into a music service, this time a streaming …
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