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Verizon lets you pack your smartphone plan for trips abroad

Verizon Wireless is giving its globetrotting customers a break. The nation’s largest wireless carrier on Thursday introduced TravelPass, an option that lets subscribers use the call minutes, texts and data from their existing phone plans while traveling. Even customers with unlimited voice and text messages will get that capability when abroad. TravelPass, which is available now, costs $2 a day …

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Spotify wants to be your concert spotter

Spotify knows which bands you’re listening to. Now it aims to tell you when they’ll be in town. The music-streaming service has a new feature for iPhone and Android users that will generate listings for users based on location and listening preferences. Starting Thursday, you can open the Browse tab on Spotify and select “Concerts” to see a personalized list …

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Get a Vivatek 1080p 3D projector for $499.99

CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Enlarge Image Vivitek Big TVs are getting cheaper all the time, but once you get past around 65 inches, prices skyrocket. If you …

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Sennheiser’s new €50,000 headphone breaks the ‘sound barrier’

Sennheiser’s new Orpheus electrostatic headphone system was designed without budgetary constraints or limits, so expectations among the audiophile cognoscenti are running high. For my listening session in New York City on Tuesday, I loaded a USB drive with familiar tunes to evaluate the Orpheus. I’ll tell you upfront the sound was, in many ways, more realistic than I’ve heard before. …

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Apple reportedly considering person

Apple is reportedly talking to US banks about introducing a payment system that would let people transfer money directly to each other via nearby smartphones. Apple’s patent application for an encrypted person-to-person payment system was published in July. Apple’s negotiations to build such a service include major banks such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Capital One Financial, Wells Fargo and US …

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Amazon’s ‘Man in the High Castle’ too ‘expensive and dangerous’ for TV networks, creator says

Amazon’s dark new sci-fi show “The Man in the High Castle” is too “expensive” and too “dangerous” for traditional TV broadcasters, according to the show’s writer and producer Frank Spotnitz. “The Man in the High Castle” is a 10-episode series funded by Amazon and available exclusively to viewers of Amazon Video. Based on a 1962 novel by Philip K. Dick, …

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New Android Wear smartwatches can connect to far

Android Wear watches have previously been stuck using either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to connect to a smartphone to do most things. But now Google has added another option: cellular connectivity. Smartwatches are still limited in that they generally need to be synced to a smartphone to make and receive calls and messages and carry out certain other tasks. That poses …

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