Samsung posted a photo of what appears to be a round watch screen on its website. Screenshot by Shara Tibken/CNET Samsung’s got another smartwatch up its sleeve. The South Korean mobile giant on Thursday posted a graphic and press release on its website saying developers can access its software development kit to build apps for …
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Nicole Cozma/CNET It’s dangerous to look up directions while you’re driving or biking. Voice input can help ease the burden of typing in an address to Google Maps, but it’s not perfect and you may end up needing to type the address or business name anyway. To help keep your eyes on the road, Google has added a feature to …
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Sarah Tew/CNET Acer really wants you to head back to school with its products in your bag. At an unveiling in New York, today, the hardware, software and services company showed off more than 40 new products across multiple categories including laptops and hybrids, tablets, smartphones, wearables and a mobile home theater projector. Acer Corporate President and CEO Jason Chen …
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The new lenses look pretty much the same, though the new coatings are important. Sony It’s hard to believe that they’re 10 years old, but Sony’s finally updating two of its most important lenses. The Vario-Sonnar T* 16-35mm f2.8 SSM II and 24-70mm f2.8 II remain essentially the same but Sony incorporates more recent coatings — coating technology has change …
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Raise.com Regular Cheapskate readers know of my fondness for cashback services, which, like certain credit cards, refund you a small (occasionally medium!) percentage of your purchase. (If you’re not a regular reader — well, why not? Anyway, check out my post from last year: Three important things you should know about cashback services.) Anyway, the folks at TopCashback have reached …
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Twitter’s Highlights feature is the social network’s latest attempt to increase people’s engagement with the site. Above: Twitter’s SF headquarters. James Martin/CNET Twitter seems to be taking a cue from Facebook. The company announced on Thursday a feature called Highlights that — like Facebook’s News Feed — is designed to draw on a user’s information to deliver relevant content and …
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Smosh’s Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox were ranked No. 1 in a Variety survey asking teens to rate influential celebrities. YouTube Hanging out on a graffiti-coated movie set in Los Angeles in October, Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox laugh as they recall the first time they were recognized in public. It was 2005, and the two were visiting a Subway …
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Walk in and walk out with your Apple Watch, no preorder necessary. Maxfield If you want an Apple Watch in your hands on Friday, and you didn’t preorder one, don’t bother lining up at an Apple Store. Instead you’ll need to head to one of a handful of luxury boutiques around the world — and soon, apparently. Apple began taking …
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Mobile advertising surged 76 percent in 2014. Slidejoy Internet advertising revenue climbed 16 percent to $49.5 billion in 2014, as a spike in sales for mobile spots pushed it above banner ads for the first time, according to a study from the Interactive Advertising Bureau. “Marketers clearly recognize that consumers are leading mobile-first lives,” IAB chief Randall Rothenberg said in …
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Samsung has launched several new, expensive televisions under the “SUHD” name, and we’ve received a few questions from readers wondering what it means. UHD is the official industry term for Ultra High Definition, which is the less-popular way to say ” 4K.” So what is “S” UHD? Super UHD? Spectacular UHD? Sassy UHD? Perhaps just Samsung UHD? Samsung’s official answer …
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