Sonos has announced support for music service Murfie, which is a site that enables users to store their physical CD collection offsite and stream or sell the CDs through the cloud. Users can stream their ripped CDs or, for a dollar, download them in a number of formats including FLAC. Until today, the only way …
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LG has opened Game World, a smart TV portal for its expanded range of family-oriented TV gaming apps. LG’s Game World portal. (Credit: LG) The Game World portal will be exclusive to LG’s Cinema 3D Smart TV line-up, and will offer over 80 games, including a number of 3D titles. The games will be able to be controlled by either …
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Samsung is preparing the largest commercial Ultra High Definition TV for the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Not actually the Samsung TV; just the similarly sized LG UHD TV. (Credit: LG) It’s official: whether you were ready for it or not, the Ultra HD age of entertainment has arrived. Sony, LG and now Samsung all have large-screen UHD offerings in …
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Now playing: Watch this: Pocket Filmmaker: stabilisation for pocket cameras 3:08 Welcome to CNET Australia‘s new guide to pocket film-making. The Pocket Filmmaker will be showing you how to turn the smartphone in your pocket into a camera capable of shooting video projects that are worthy of sharing with family and friends, online and even with the judges of some …
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Over the weekend Verizon briefly called out the Droid DNA as its next Droid handset. The revelation was fleeting, though; the carrier promptly scrubbed all mention of DNA from its Web site. Verizon is likely kicking itself, and likely the people responsible, for the slip-up since it came days ahead of the new phone’s expected launch tomorrow in New York. …
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Tesltra is now taking pre-orders for the new Nokia Lumia 920, and to sweeten the deal, Telstra is including an AU$200 JBL speaker in the bag for every customer who signs up in advance. The Lumia 920 in white beside the JBL NFC speaker on offer to Telstra pre-order customers. (Credit: CBSi) This speaker is the JBL PlayUp Wireless Speaker …
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Vodafone has stopped stocking the iPhone 4S in 32GB and 64GB sizes, Omio reports. Though the network will still offer the 16GB iPhone 4S, a couple of HTC handsets are for the chop, too. Vodafone detailed its plans in a newsletter to affiliates. No fewer than six mobiles will no longer be available on Vodafone. These are the 32GB and 64GB iPhone 4S, the …
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There could be quite an interesting postscript to the patent case in which Apple won $1 billion from Samsung. Our sister site CNET reports that Judge Lucy Koh has agreed to examine Samsung’s claims that the jury foreman concealed crucial information that stopped him being impartial. Samsung is arguing that Vel Hogan failed to disclose that in 1993 he was sued by …
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This is more like it. Apple and HTC have kissed and made up, and put behind them all the lawsuits they’ve been slapping each other with. Not only that, they’ve announced a deal that will let them license patents off each other for the next 10 years, so we shouldn’t see any more court cases between them for a while. Way to go, …
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iPhone troubles? Let me guess: an update won’t install properly. Or an app keeps crashing on you. Or you can’t get your Bluetooth connection to work. Problems like these often drive frazzled users to the Apple Genius Bar, which, of course, requires a reservation via the Apple Web site. Before you can make one, however, Apple now suggests this: Screenshot …
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The iPhone 5 will soon be on sale in China for the first time. The Wall Street Journal reports that state-controlled China Telecom, the country’s third biggest mobile operator, and China Unicom, the second largest, will offer the new iPhone at the end of November or beginning of December. Both networks have been awaiting government approval to sell the handset. …
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The Surface is off to a “modest” start, according to Microsoft. Looks like all those adverts don’t signal the death of the iPad just yet. Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer admitted that the Surface is off to a relatively slow start to French newspaper Le Parisien. Although he doesn’t quote numbers, it seems those pesky clicky adverts coming at you from …
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Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet topped Samsung’s Galaxy tablet in a “shoot-out” done by display testing firm DisplayMate Technologies. The Surface RT’s display outperformed all of the standard resolution full size 10-inch tablets that DisplayMate has tested to date in its Shoot-Out series, Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate Technologies, said in a research note today. “On-screen text is significantly sharper, it …
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Now playing: Watch this: Pocket Filmmaker: Recording great sound 4:24 Welcome back to CNET Australia‘s guide to pocket film-making. The Pocket Filmmaker will be showing you how to turn the smartphone in your pocket into a camera capable of shooting video projects that are worthy of sharing with family and friends, online and even with the judges of some of …
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