Sprint’s Apple smartphones now make calls over Wi-Fi. Sarah Tew/CNET If your iPhone’s signal is too weak to sustain a call, Sprint has the solution for you. On Wednesday, the carrier started rolling out Wi-Fi calling to four Apple iPhone models: the iPhone 6 , iPhone 6 Plus , iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C . …
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HBO’s purely online service, HBO Now, is available to Apple device owners and people who sign up through cable company Cablevision. Sarah Tew/CNET Apple TV and Cablevision customers are now able to follow the adventures of Khaleesi, Tyrion and the rest of the “Game of Thrones” crew without the aid of a cable subscription. HBO’s online-only streaming service, HBO Now, …
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Ride is a new car-hailing app that caters to carpooling commuters. Ride Is there room for another ride-hailing startup? That’s what a new smartphone app called Ride is hoping to find out. It’s muscling into the increasingly crowded field of ride-hailing startups, dominated by Uber and Lyft, by focusing on carpooling, rather than replacing the taxi. Ride, which launched its …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET Spring is finally here! In addition to nice weather, warm nights, and baseball parks filling up, it’s also time start checking off items on the honey-do list around the house. In addition to cleaning up some cobwebs, sit down with your iOS device and show it a bit of love as well. A few simple tweaks can go …
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If you want to be among the first to own an Apple Watch, you should pre-order on Friday. You’ll need to make an appointment to get one in store when it launches on April 24. Friday is a big day for more than just Apple fans. The Star Wars movies will be sold digitally for the first time. CNET Update …
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YouTube Kids is deceptive to children, consumer and children’s advocacy groups say. Jason Cipriani/CNET A collection of consumer and children’s advocacy groups have come together to urge US regulators to do something about Google’s new child-focused YouTube app. Organizations including the Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Watchdog, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry have jointly filed a …
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Dallas Buyers Club. Focus Features iiNet has welcomed a landmark piracy judgement handed down by the Federal Court yesterday, saying the legal case has shed light on the practice of ‘speculative invoicing’ and the ruling prevents its customers from being threatened over copyright infringement. The makers of the Oscar-winning film “Dallas Buyers Club” took iiNet and a number of other …
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Image by Jaskirat Singh Bawa, CC BY-ND 2.0 Australia’s Communications Alliance has released the final version of an industry code targeted at tackling piracy in Australia, officially putting ‘three strikes’ warning notices on the table for Internet users. A draft version of the code was released in February, and the final document has now been filed with the Australian Communications …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET I’ll be the first to admit my music collection is less than organized. To be honest, I hate dealing with it. I despise going file by file, renaming, adding the album title, track number and so on. It’s a hassle. With that said, organizing your music collection is something that needs to be done. Once you get a …
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Matt Elliott/CNET A few months back, I wrote about Better Window Manager, a Mac app that helps you juggle your open windows by letting you save their size and positions. I liked the app, but I like Divvy better. Divvy is currently featured as part of $2 Tuesday, which represents a significant discount of its regular $13.99 price for Mac …
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