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Cricket Wireless offers iPhone 6S, 6S Plus via prepaid, contract free plans

Cricket Wireless is yet another option if you want one of the new iPhones contract-free. James Martin/CNET Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S Plus officially launch on Friday, and Cricket Wireless is getting it on the action by selling the new phones both online and at select retail locations. A subsidiary of AT&T, Cricket offers prepaid, no-contract mobile phone plans …

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Rumored Android

A phone as bold as a BlackBerry running Android rather than its own software deserves a bold name. According to frequent Twitter tipster Evan Blass (@evleaks), that name will be Priv. Now known by the code name Venice, the device, which is rumored to touch down in November, marks the first time BlackBerry has embraced a different operating system for …

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Spring cleaning: Apps for getting stuff done

Spring cleaning can become a relatively involved process. That’s because you’re usually adding these tasks to your normally scheduled ones, like grocery shopping or picking up your kids. Here are a few apps for your Android or iOS device that can help you remember what to do, when, and even where so you can get that spring cleaning done. Note: …

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Democratic presidential debate to be live

Enlarge ImageIs your view of the candidates in virtual reality? Josh Miller/CNET Like to be at the Democratic presidential debate next month but can’t attend in person? CNN is promising to take viewers there through the wonders of virtual reality. CNN said Thursday that it will live-stream the October 13 debate from Las Vegas in full 3D immersive virtual reality. …

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Verizon begins offering annual iPhone upgrade plan

Verizon’s new upgrade program promises a new iPhone every year. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Verizon is joining the move toward annual smartphone upgrades. The largest US wireless carrier announced Thursday that customers who purchase Apple’s smartphone when it goes on sale Friday will have the option of upgrading to the latest iPhone model each year. To qualify, customers must choose Verizon’s monthly …

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‘Trying to keep morale up’: Facebook outage brings the Twitter one

When the world is faced with the horror of a Facebook outage, luckily there are other social-media sites for sharing our collective grief. And so it was that Twitter momentarily got transformed into a worldwide stream of freak-outs and one-liners Thursday morning. Facebook.com showed an error message for an estimated millions of users worldwide, starting around 9:45 a.m. PT and …

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