Sony Sony’s improving your view by building YouView into its UK TVs, granting access to a range of on-demand channels through the TV guide. YouView, launched in 2012, is a TV service that combines on-demand viewing of previously aired programmes with its live TV listings, letting you scroll back through time to watch shows that …
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Popular app MyFitnessPal tracks your calories and diet. Dan Graziano/CNET Move over, Nike — Under Armour is building its own fitness technology empire. The company announced today that it has purchased MyFitnessPal and Endomondo in an effort to both sell you clothes to work out in and track those workouts, too. According to the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report, Under Armour …
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Microsoft is putting the kibosh on the Lumia 2520, its last RT tablet. CNET Microsoft has hammered a nail in the coffin of its Windows RT lineup. The software giant has stopped making its last remaining RT device, namely the Nokia Lumia 2520 Windows RT tablet, a spokesman for the company told the Verge. This latest development follows news that …
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Vodafone prepaid customers will now be able to live the telco’s slogan with free data weekends. Vodafone Vodafone is axing data charges for prepaid customers every weekend from this weekend until April 26, 2015, as well as offering free standard international calls to its five most popular overseas destinations — China, India, New Zealand, the US and the UK. The …
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Apple CEO Tim Cook (second from left) and Eddy Cue, Apple’s head of Internet software and services (far right), celebrated the deal thet reached with Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre to buy their company, Beats. Apple Apple may soon reveal its plans for Beats, according to a new report. The company plans to launch a new paid streaming music service …
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Finally, a pro 70-200mm f2.8 lens. Pentax Pentaxians, rejoice: Ricoh is now bestowing upon you a 70-200mm f2.8 of your own. No longer do you need to look to third parties like Tamron for this staple professional lens. The company also debuts a home-grown 150-450mm f4.5-5.6 weather-sealed lens. And interestingly, the press release for the lenses says they’re also “designed …
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Android 5.1 Lollipop has officially popped up. Google Android 5.1 has made its first official appearance, though somewhat out of the blue. The update to Android 5.0 Lollipop is now available on Android One devices, according to the Android One website. Although Google hasn’t officially confirmed 5.1’s availability, the site specifically touts the latest update with the tagline: “Introducing Android …
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South Korea has large middle and upper classes that could prove to be valuable customers, and car-hailing service Uber is looking to set up shop there legally. Uber After getting hit with illegality charges in South Korea and facing ever-increasing scrutiny there, ride-hailing service Uber has offered a proposal to make its service legal in the country. Uber has proposed …
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Pretty much everyone who has ever seen “Star Wars” would love to be able to fly the Millennium Falcon around the galaxies. One crafty individual going by the social-media moniker Olivier C is living that dream, and released a YouTube video of himself piloting a custom Millennium Falcon radio-controlled quadcopter drone he built himself. Related Links Rubberneck at this TIE …
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler is ready to shake up the Internet. Tom Wheeler, chairman of the FCC, wants to reclassify broadband as a utility in order to protect the open Internet. CNET/Marguerite Reardon Wheeler confirmed Wednesday that he intends to regulate wired and wireless broadband services under the Title II of the Communications Act of 1934, subjecting them …
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