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Goodbye, Moto(rola). Iconic brand name to be phased out

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. The storied Motorola name will be wiped off phones this year. Lenovo, which bought Motorola Mobility from Google in 2014, is unifying its two phone businesses under the Lenovo name. It’s going to …

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All that matters on the first day of CES 2016

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. It’s only the first official day of CES, but it already feels like the show has been going for a week. That’s because the biggest news day of CES, also known as Press …

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BlackBerry going all

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. This will be an all-Android year for BlackBerry’s newest phones. The Waterloo, Ontario-based company plans to release one new product, and potentially a second phone, in 2016. Both will run on Google’s mobile …

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Samsung’s TipTalk smart strap gives old watches some finger phone magic (hands

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. On show at CES 2016, the Samsung-backed TipTalk is a clever new “smart strap” for traditional watches, adding fitness tracking, notifications and calling features to any watch. Its greatest trick? Letting you take …

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BlackBerry Priv will land on Verizon, Sprint and T

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. BlackBerry’s Android-powered Priv phone will soon be a lot easier to buy. BlackBerry CEO John Chen on Wednesday confirmed that Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint will sell its flagship phone. He declined to …

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Fitbit users sue, claiming heart rate monitors miss the beat

Fitbit says its wearable heart monitors help “make every beat count.” A group Fitbit users say the devices don’t even count every beat. Three plaintiffs from California, Colorado and Wisconsin filed a lawsuit Tuesday against San Francisco-based Fitbit, claiming its Charge HR and Surge models significantly underestimated their heart rates during workouts. The lawsuit, which claims the company falsely advertised …

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