CNET Twitter’s making a bigger bet on private messaging. The company announced on its developer blog today that starting in July it’s removing the 140-character limit on direct messages; the private messages you can send to another Twitter user. The news comes the same day Twitter announced that Dick Costolo is out as CEO come …

After launching an app for the Telstra T-Box earlier this year, local video streaming service Presto has now unveiled a native app for a select range of Samsung smart TVs. The Presto app will initially be available on the 2012, 2013 and 2014 ranges of Samsung smart TVs, with compatibility for the 2015 models coming soon. Presto is actually two …

T-Mobile CEO John Legere is urging consumers to contact the FCC to adopt more favorable rules in its upcoming spectrum auction to ensure future competition. CNET T-Mobile CEO John Legere wants you to “make some noise” about an obscure and highly technical topic that may help the wireless carrier improve its service. Legere, in his usual bombastic and foul-mouthed way, …

Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET The built-in Dictionary app for Macs is a powerful and useful tool, offering definitions, of course, along with thesaurus and Wikipedia entries. You can make it more powerful and more useful with the Terminology for OS X add-on from Agile Tortoise. Terminology is free and installs into the Dictionary app. Terminology is based on the WordNet …

PayPal might soon be calling you with robocalls, but the New York attorney general wants to know more. PayPal The soon-to-be-split eBay and PayPal need to answer for changes they’re making to their user agreements, according to the New York state attorney general’s office. The office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has issued a letter to eBay and …

Nicole Cozma/CNET Whether you’re installing a lot of applications, drivers or just want to recover file system changes, you’ll need an available restore point to make it happen. Unfortunately, as PCWorld points out, Windows is a bit relaxed with restore point creation, leaving you with data from last week, when you really need data from yesterday. To make the restore …

ROK Mobile plans include access to 20 million songs. Screenshot by Scott Webster/CNET A new speciality mobile carrier has entered the scene. ROK Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator that piggybacks on Sprint and T-Mobile, announced its $50 wireless prepaid bundle. Related Links Cricket’s Deezer music partnership rises from the ashes of Muve Music Sprint Prepaid adds rollover data, with …

Foxconn could bring production of Apple devices to India. Apple The back of your iPhone may soon read “Assembled in India.” Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer that assembles Apple devices such as the iPhone and iPad, could be opening a new plant in India, according to Reuters. Foxconn will scout out a location in a month, Subhash Desai, Industries Minister of …

BlackBerry CEO John Chen presenting at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Sarah Tew/CNET BlackBerry may be looking to Google’s Android operating system to power an upcoming smartphone. The struggling smartphone maker could run Android on an “upcoming slider device” that will likely be released this fall, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing sources “familiar with the matter.” The smartphone would, according …

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