Fifth-generation networks should be dramatically faster than the 3G and 4G networks in use today. CNET Five years from now, you may be thanking your dog for helping to make you healthier, safer, more productive and smarter about what’s happening in the world around you. And it has nothing to do with taking Scruffy on …
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HP to buy Aruba Networks for $2.7B in mobile push
HP president and CEO Meg Whitman has made good on a promise to acquire more companies. Hewlett-Packard Just last week, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said that her company would be “on the hunt” to acquire new companies, and now she has made good on that promise. HP plans to buy Aruba Networks in a $3 billion transaction that, factoring in …
Read More »Smartphone innovation at MWC shows there’s life in the old dog yet
BARCELONA — Thought there was nowhere left for smartphones to go? So did we. But major manufacturers at Mobile World Congress — the enormous trade show kicking off in earnest here today — have managed to put a new spin on this aging category, impressing us with tweaks that set their products apart. The smartphone has been, without a doubt, …
Read More »Sailfish Secure wants to be an Android alternative safe from spies’ prying eyes
A hacker, yesterday. Shutterstock Privacy is hot topic right now as spies and hackers are snooping into our lives and our phones like never before. Keeping your communications locked away from prying eyes, Sailfish Secure is a new version of the niche mobile operating system that’s designed to bring peace of mind to businesses, government officials, and privacy-minded phone fans. …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy S6 and its missing features
Samsung gives consumers plenty of smartphone choices. But a removable battery is one choice that could be disappearing. Watch CNET Update for a quick rundown on Samsung’s new Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, two models that are the same except for the screen. Along with new perks, they both also lack some familiar options: Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy …
Read More »Netflix Australia to start streaming March 24, has free
The Australian arm of the Netflix video streaming service will flip the switch on March 24, with people able to subscribe to watch an array of TV and movies on demand from that date. Back in November last year, Netflix confirmed that it would be bringing its service to Australia, although it would only give an approximate launch of March …
Read More »Google confirms wireless efforts, plans bigger reveal ‘in coming months’
Sundar Pichai, Google’s senior vice president of products, speaks at Mobile World Congress 2015. Stephen Shankland/CNET BARCELONA — Google will launch a wireless service of its own, but it may be a limited project. Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of products for Google, confirmed that the world’s largest search company was in talks with wireless carriers, and suggested an answer …
Read More »How Jaunt and Dolby scared the bejeesus out of me with a virtual reality ‘Black Mass’
“Black Mass”: it’s OK, I didn’t want to sleep for a week anyway. Jaunt BARCELONA — Virtual reality allows you to step into another world — or in the case of disturbing VR film “Black Mass”, be kidnapped, drugged and initiated into a good old-fashioned thorough freaking out. A company called Jaunt records films and events with a 360-degree camera …
Read More »Some ‘House of Cards’ viewers do whatever it takes to watch
Copyright law can’t stand in the way of a binge viewer. Netflix WARNING: SOME SPOILERS AHEAD! If you haven’t watched the first two seasons of “House of Cards,” you might not want to read on. Or just catch up quickly here. The world really wants to see how a President Frank Underwood might helm the United States, and like Underwood …
Read More »Judge appears poised to approve Apple, Google anti
Federal judge Lucy Koh approved a $415 million settlement by Apple, Google, Adobe and Intel related to illegal agreements not to poach each other’s employees. Shara Tibken/CNET A federal judge appears ready to approve a $415 million deal by four Silicon Valley tech giants to settle an antitrust lawsuit that accused them of conspiring to not recruit each other’s employees. …
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