Apple’s newest Manhattan store, which first opened in 1922 as a bank. Ben Fox Rubin/CNET Apple wants to offer a touch of luxury at its newest Manhattan location. The space at 940 Madison Ave., which will open to the public Saturday morning, was most recently a storefront for luxury handbag purveyor VBH and is still …
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The robocalling spat comes at a sensitive time for PayPal, as it plans to split from eBay later this year. Getty Images PayPal has yet another critic of its new user agreement: the Federal Communications Commission. The US regulator sent a letter Thursday to the digital payments company, questioning an amendment in the paperwork requiring users to consent to automated …
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What might have been: The Nokia (or Microsoft) Moonraker. Evan Blass Once upon a time, another company was dreaming up smartwatch ideas, only to have Microsoft dash its plans, according to a new report. Images of an unannounced smartwatch were discovered on Friday by tech-leak-finder and technology journalist Evan Blass. The images, which were on a Tumblr blog operated by …
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Asus Chairman did not rule out acquiring HTC Aloysius Low/CNET Asus isn’t ruling out an acquisition of HTC. Chairman Johnny Shih expressed his openness to such a deal when asked at the company’s annual general meeting, Chief Financial Officer David Chang told Reuters on Friday. A deal between the two Taiwanese consumer electronics companies would bolster Asus’s own portfolio and …
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The figurines promised with a minimum pledge of $75. The Forking Path On the surface, The Doom That Came to Atlantic City should have been a shoe-in — a Monopoly-style board game in which you play as Lovecraftian horrors competing to take over the Earth, a labour of love by artist Lee Moyer and game designer Keith Baker, made under …
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Emotions have run high over Net neutrality. Here, protesters interrupt a meeting of the FCC commissioners on December 11, 2014. (Wheeler is second from left.) Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission’s open Internet rules will take effect on Friday as planned after a federal court rejected requests by opponents to delay the rules pending lawsuits against the agency. A …
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The iStand 6 features a kickstand that also lets it function as a desktop dock. Wirelessky If you bought an iPhone 6 last fall, you might just be getting to the point where battery life isn’t what it used to be. All smartphone batteries lose capacity over time, hence the necessity for external power solutions. A mobile charger is one …
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The LG G Watch, powered by Google’s Android Wear operating system, isn’t a locked-down repository for personal data. Josh Miller/CNET Want to keep your private data private? Maybe you should postpone that smartwatch purchase. Researchers at the University of New Haven have shown that they can extract personal information from the LG G Watch and from the Samsung Gear 2 …
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Amazon’s e-book contracts are now the subject of an investigation in the EU. Screenshot by David Carnoy/CNET E-book contracts are under investigation again, but this time, it’s Amazon on the receiving end of the inquiries. The European Union’s competition watchdog, the European Commission, has launched a formal investigation into Amazon’s deals with e-book publishers. The EC is particularly interested in …
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An example of the email Charlie sends you before your next meeting. Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET Have you ever rushed into a meeting, not having a chance to do any research on who exactly it is you’ll be talking to? I know I have, and it almost always leads to an awkward, forehead-slapping “I should have known that” moment. Charlie …
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