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Skype gets major refresh for iOS and Android

Skype has gotten a face-lift for the iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Skype Skype has redesigned its iOS and Android apps to offer easier navigation and a few enhancements. Released on Thursday for Apple’s iPhone and iPad and devices running Google’s Android software, Skype version 6.0 looks and feels a bit different from the old version. The latest edition sports …

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SK Telecom As Samsung, Apple and a few other key players duke it out on the premium smartphone battlefield, the war for supremacy in the rapidly growing budget and midrange markets is becoming increasingly intense. And now there’s one more contender — South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, SK Telecom. The company will release the Luna, its first handset, on Friday. …

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Apple is trying to improve Apple Music, iTunes VP says

Apple Music still needs some fixing, says an iTunes exec. CNET Apple is working on Apple Music in an attempt to make the new music-streaming service better. Oliver Schusser, vice president of iTunes International, told UK news site The Guardian that Apple is “adding features and cleaning up certain things” in Apple Music. Schusser added that the Apple Music Connect …

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Watch Samsung unveil the Gear S2 smartwatch live from Berlin: Today at 10 a.m. PT, 1 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. UK

You may feel like you’ve already seen and heard a lot about Samsung’s Gear S2. We got some initial broad strokes about the watch — circular design, Tizen operating system — back in the spring when Samsung released details to developers. More recently, Samsung teased it at the end of its Galaxy Note 5 press conference in New York two …

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Airbnb’s Apple Watch app connects hosts and guests at the wrist

Airbnb releases an Apple Watch app that’s focused on messaging. Airbnb When home and apartment-rental service Airbnb set out to design its new Apple Watch app, it didn’t want to mimic its iPhone app — it wanted to do something different. The company’s engineers tried creating user wish lists. They tested listings browsing too. Finally, the team decided to keep …

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