Deezer Deezer, a French music streaming service, is now upgrading its offering in the Asia-Pacific region. Deezer Elite is a new premium subscription tier that allows users to stream songs from Deezer’s library of 35 million tracks as .FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) sound files. The .FLAC format uses 1,411 kbps as standard, which means …
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Project Spartan, Windows 10’s new browser, is now available for testing
Project Spartan will let you capture and share notes on web pages. Screenshot by Nate Ralph/CNET The latest version of the Windows 10 Technical preview has arrived, and it’s offering up an early look at Project Spartan, the browser that will succeed the venerable Internet Explorer. We got our first look at Project Spartan at Microsoft’s Windows 10 event in …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy S6 vs. HTC One M9, Apple iPhone 6 camera shootout
Now that smartphone specs are better than ever, and the competition for your next flagship is even more cut throat, one of the most important features mobile manufacturers emphasize is how well their handsets can snap a pic. Even Apple’s latest “shot on an iPhone 6” ad campaign touts the device’s camera quality with sweeping and dramatic user photos plastered …
Read More »‘I like the feel of the CD’: Parody vid skewers clueless media execs
This poor radio executive worries he may never make money again. Video screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET What does denial sound like? A group of hopelessly out-of-touch media executives who have no idea what to make of things like Netflix, Hulu and paywalls, according to Funny or Die. “There will always be a place for real books, bound books, where people …
Read More »LG hypes Netflix credentials for new line, but 4K OLED TV is a no
LG’s 4K Curved OLED TV. LG LG Australia has launched its 2015 range of TVs, pushing its partnership with Netflix, but there’s no word on its promised Ultra HD OLED offering. LG Australia previously showed off its EC970T Curved 4K OLED at an October 2014 launch. Projected for November 2014 for AU$9,999, the unit failed to arrive last year and …
Read More »Zero G is the Spider
Now playing: Watch this: Mega Tiny Corp’s Zero G Nano Suction iPhone 6 case defies… 1:35 For the last week I’ve been playing around with a prototype for a pretty ingenious iPhone 6 case in advance of its March 31 debut on Kickstarter. It’s called the Zero G anti-gravity case from a startup called Mega Tiny Corp. It looks like …
Read More »LG likely to show off G4 flagship phone on April 28
LG’s invitation to its press events late next month has the tagline: “See the great. Feel the great.” LG LG has just sent out invites to upcoming events simultaneously taking place around the world late next month, and they likely point to one thing: the unveiling of its new flagship handset, the LG G4. The South Korean electronics giant will …
Read More »PlayStation spins free Spotify tunes on your TV
Now playing: Watch this: Spotify’s streaming service arrives on Sony’s PlayStation… 1:25 Sony on Monday launched PlayStation Music to play tunes on the gaming console, joining forces with Spotify to make the free version of the streaming service work on TVs for the first time. Previously, connected-TV devices — whether gaming consoles or over-the-top boxes like Roku — could only …
Read More »How to customize the navigation buttons on the HTC One M9
An extra button on in the navigation drawer of the HTC One M9. Jason Cipriani/CNET The new HTC One M9 isn’t all that different on the outside from its predecessor, but it does offer some new software tricks. One of them is the capability to customize the order, and even add or subtract from, your device’s navigation buttons. The navigation …
Read More »HTC quietly debuts One E9+ in China with 5.5
The 5.5-inch HTC One E9+ arrives with no fanfare. HTC China You’d think that HTC would loudly trumpet its first Android smartphone to receive a 2,560×1,440-pixel resolution, but no. HTC instead posted the new One E9+ on its Chinese website without any fanfare. The silence around the new One E9+ is curious to be sure, given the phone packs its …
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