Amazon’s Prime Now one-hour delivery service has spread to Atlanta. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Amazon has expanded its one-hour delivery service to yet another market. Prime Now, which offers consumers extra-speedy delivery on tens of thousands of products, is launching in Atlanta, Amazon announced Thursday. The service offers Prime members one-hour delivery but at a …
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Samsung 2015 SUHD 4K TVs launch with official pricing
David Katzmaier/CNET Customers in the US finally know how much they’ll be paying for a new Samsung TV. The Korean electronics giant officially unveiled pricing and specific model details for the 2015 TV lineup that it first revealed back in January . At the high end, the line is dominated by Samsung’s premium “SUHD” label, mostly curved, all 4K models …
Read More »Apple takes smartphone crown in China
The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus vaulted Apple to the top spot in China. CNET Apple has stolen the No. 1 spot in smartphone sales in urban China from local rival Xiaomi, according to market researcher Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. For the three months that ended in February, Apple’s iPhone 6 was the top selling phone in urban China with a …
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White gold: The Acer Chromebook C720P is a steal at $179.99. Acer Which would you rather have in a sub-$200 laptop: a bigger screen that doesn’t respond to touch or a smaller screen that does? I ask because in the past, I’ve shared similarly priced deals on Chromebooks that had 13- or even 14-inch screens, but that weren’t finger-friendly. Today, …
Read More »Listening loud: The joys of turning it up to ’11’
The Oswalds Mill Imperia speakers, in Brooklyn. Steve Guttenberg/CNET Listening loud produces a physical experience you feel through your entire body — it’s something that more sensible volume can never match. Loud is also more “correct”: even unamplified live music can get really loud, so listening to recorded music at a more moderate volume forfeits too much of the energy …
Read More »Facebook hopes to make viral
If Snapchat, Vine, and Periscope can’t satisfy your social video craving, now there’s Riff. Facebook launched a new app for sharing and creating short video clips with your friends. Watch CNET Update below to learn how it works: Now playing: Watch this: Facebook hopes to make viral-video magic with Riff 2:54 Also in this tech-news roundup: Nintendo reveals a new …
Read More »Facebook privacy probes ramp up in Europe
Facebook continues to face scrutiny in Europe over its privacy practices. CNET Facebook is facing more pressure from European regulators concerned about its privacy policies. Government privacy regulators from France, Spain and Italy recently joined a regulatory group already looking into how the company deals with the personal data it collects from its users, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. …
Read More »Microsoft scanning app Office Lens comes to iOS, Android
Office Lens (shown here in the iPhone version) enables users to take pictures of things like receipts, business cards and whiteboards, and save and share them in a variety of ways. Microsoft Office Lens, a scanning app that’s been a hit on Windows Phone, is coming to iOS and Android. On Thursday, Microsoft made available a preview of the Android …
Read More »How to create a Facebook Scrapbook of your kid
Matt Elliott/CNET If you share photos of your kids on Facebook, then you might like Facebook’s new Scrapbook feature that collects the photos you share of your kids and keeps them in one place. Scrapbooks also make it easier to share photos of your kids with your partner’s Facebook friends. A Facebook Scrapbook lets you create a photo tag for …
Read More »Europe’s antitrust watchdog sniffs around Apple’s music deals
Apple bought Beats Music in a $3 billion deal for the company best known for its premium headphones. Apple Apple’s bid to relaunch its Beats streaming music service is already facing scrutiny. The European Commission has sent questionnaires to several labels and digital music companies about Apple’s plans for Beats Music, according to a report in the Financial Times (subscription …
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