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Cablevision buddies up with Hulu

Hulu’s $7.99-a-month subscription option, Hulu Plus, gives members earlier access to some shows and lets them watch on mobile devices. Hulu Cablevision seems to be head over heels for “over the top.” The cable company agreed on Tuesday to distribute Hulu’s catalog of on-demand video, which the streaming site currently delivers strictly via the Internet. Cablevision indicated that Hulu’s offering …

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Add a charging sound to your MacBook

Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET If you have come to enjoy the satisfying chime your iPhone emits when you plug it in to charge it, then you might want, for the sake of consistency or convenience, to hear the same chime when you plug in your MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. (The new 12-inch MacBook features such a sound effect out …

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MCX gets new CEO after Apple Pay scores Best Buy

MCX, the merchant consortium behind the CurrentC mobile-payments system, has replaced its CEO. MCX A consortium of major retailers backing a mobile-payments effort has appointed a new chief executive a day after member Best Buy announced it would support a competing system created by Apple. Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX, announced Tuesday that Dekkers Davidson was leaving the group “to …

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With leather

LG’s G4 will come in multiple colors of leather, as well as a few plastic options. Roger Cheng/CNET PYEONGTAEK, South Korea — Every few seconds, the front display and an internal component of LG’s upcoming G4 smartphone roll on to a conveyor belt. The gloved hands of an employee quickly snatch up the pieces, assemble them and place the completed …

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Activist investor Icahn says Apple ‘still undervalued’

Activist investor Carl Icahn still doesn’t think Apple’s worth enough. Screenshot by Shara Tibken/CNET Carl Icahn just wasn’t that impressed with Apple’s announcement on Monday that it will return more of its massive cash pile to investors. The activist investor on Tuesday tweeted that Apple, the highest valued public company in the world, “is still undervalued and misunderstood.” He added …

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Twitter earnings leaked via tweets, sales disappoint

Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. James Martin/CNET Oh, the power of tweets. Twitter experienced firsthand Tuesday how its microblogging service can disseminate news faster than just about any other news organization when one of its users tweeted the company’s first-quarter sales and profit about a half hour before the results were scheduled to be announced. Selerity, a New York market …

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T-Mobile CEO John Legere says the US mobile market needs to think more creatively about mergers. CNET US regulators aren’t a fan of wireless companies buying other wireless companies or cable companies buying other cable companies. But what about a cable company coming together with a wireless company? That’s a marriage they just may accept, according to T-Mobile CEO John …

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