BARCELONA — AT&T is tapping into the health field, covering both young and old. AT&T is going deeper into the health business. AT&T The US’s second-largest wireless carrier said it was partnering with fitness data tracking company Tictrac to create ForHealth, a platform designed to break down your data in useful ways. Separately, the company …
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Netflix has several original programs hitting its streaming service in the next few months. Netflix Get ready to binge: video-streaming provider Netflix has announced a slate of upcoming releases in the wake of its “House of Cards” Season 3 launch. The Netflix original series “Orange is the New Black” will be ready to stream on June 12, a week after …
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The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade is always a huge tourist drawcard for NSW, bringing hundreds and thousands of local, interstate and even international spectators who line Oxford Street to watch the colourful cavalcade of floats. Of course, not everyone can be present on the day and if you’re looking for a slightly more exciting experience than just …
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Sikur’s security-minded, locked-down GranitePhone is due to ship in the third quarter of 2015. Stephen Shankland/CNET BARCELONA — Brazilian security company Sikur announced the GranitePhone on Tuesday, the latest in a bumper crop of secure-phone efforts at this year’s Mobile World Congress show. The GranitePhone, set to arrive in the third quarter of 2015, offers encrypted text messaging, voice, group …
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BlackBerry CEO John Chen presenting at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Sarah Tew/CNET BARCELONA — BlackBerry may take another run at the tablet market. That’s if CEO John Chen thinks the opportunity is right. “It’s not in the works, but it’s on my mind,” Chen said in an interview at the Mobile World Congress conference here. A BlackBerry tablet could …
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler vehemently defends his Net neutrality policy at Mobile World Congress 2015. Stephen Shankland/CNET BARCELONA — Tom Wheeler, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission, today defended his agency’s move to regulate the Internet, ensuring that broadband players would be unaffected by his “light touch” approach to the rules. “This is no more regulating the Internet than …
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Andrew Hoyle/CNET BARCELONA — Three will be the first and only UK network to stock the Honor 6 Plus , a 5.5-inch, octa-core Android phone, when it launches later this year, the company has announced here at MWC. The announcement is a significant one for Honor, the new phone brand owned by Chinese mobile giant Huawei, as up until now, …
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Xiaomi’s Redmi 2 was announced earlier this year in January, but hasn’t yet made its way outside of China. Aloysius Low/CNET BARCELONA — While not available for sale just yet outside of China, the wallet-friendly Xiaomi Redmi 2 made a brief appearance on the Mobile World Congress show floor. However, you won’t be able to find it at the stands. …
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Andrew Hoyle/CNET Scanning your fingerprints to unlock your smartphone is old news. It’s time to put your eyes to work! At this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Fujitsu has been showing off a concept phone that uses infrared lasers and cameras to scan your iris and unlock your phone. The first question in all of this is, of course, …
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Screenshot by Sarah Mitroff/CNET Google is cleaning up your contacts. Today, the company teased out a preview of its new and improved Contacts page, where you view and manage the people, phone numbers and email addresses in your Google account. It looks a whole lot cleaner and promises to help make getting rid of duplicate entries easier. Related stories Google …
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