Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday expressed uncertainty about the impact the deadly coronavirus would have on its China production, but one major iPhone manufacturer said it’s prepared. Foxconn apparently has a plan to “meet all global manufacturing obligations,” even as China restricts travel and enacts quarantine measures. “Foxconn is closely monitoring the current public …
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30 January
Samsung is already taking sign
Samsung is already asking for interest in its upcoming flagship phone, which has yet to be revealed. By signing up, you’ll get a notification from Samsung of when you can preorder the next Galaxy phone. “Be the first to experience a new era of Galaxy,” the site says. Delivery will be by March 6 while supplies last, Samsung says. You just have …
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30 January
Bird designs new scooter to fend off vandals
Electric scooters have been found hanging in trees, thrown in lakes, hotwired and stripped. When Scoot first launched its scooters in San Francisco in 2018, one of the biggest issues it said it faced was theft and vandalism. No wonder it would get to work building a tougher model to resist such abuse. Scoot, now owned by Bird, introduced a …
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30 January
The 4 best phones to get your kid in 2020
It seems like we see kids peering at the screen of their own smartphone at a younger and younger age, even though health experts say that kids under age five should only get one hour of screen time a day. On average, kids get their first phone at about 10 years old, according to findings from Influence Central’s 2016 Digital …
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30 January
Apple rolls out Maps redesign to all US users
Apple’s redesigned Maps app has arrived. The company on Thursday said its revamped app is now available for US users and will arrive in Europe “in the coming months.” Apple Maps‘ redesign makes navigation faster and more accurate and gives users “comprehensive views of roads, buildings, parks, airports, malls and more.” Apple rebuilt its mapping service from the ground …
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30 January
Amazon surprises Wall Street with a blowout holiday quarter
It’s OK if you got motion sickness from following Amazon’s earnings reports over the past year. Case in point: The e-commerce heavyweight’s profits crashed in the second and third quarters of 2019, following a heady string of record earnings. And just when profits seemed to be on their way down, they’re right back up again in the fourth quarter, just …
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30 January
Hybrid laptop deals: Take home a 2
Here’s a neat trick: getting a midrange two-in-one laptop at a budget price. Best Buy and HP have slashed the prices of three two-in-one laptops that boast well-rounded, mainstream configurations. At their current sale prices, they’re in the budget price range of $550 to $600. Granted, these three models from HP, Lenovo and Samsung feature CPUs that are a generation …
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30 January
Verizon gets a subscriber boost from Disney+
Verizon added valuable new wireless customers in the fourth quarter of 2019 as it builds out its 5G network, but weaknesses in other parts of its business caused it to fall short of analyst expectations on earnings. The New York-based wireless carrier said Thursday that it added a total of 790,000 new postpaid phone subscribers in the fourth quarter, compared …
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30 January
Brexit to bring back roaming fees from 2021 unless networks say otherwise
The UK government released a travel advisory on Thursday telling British citizens how travel to and within the EU will change after the country leaves the bloc. On the list of things to prepare for is the potential return of roaming fees, which are currently banned under EU law. Since June 2017 UK citizens have benefitted from an EU-wide law …
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30 January
Samsung’s Galaxy Book S will arrive in February after long delay
Samsung’s Galaxy Book S turned heads when it was announced last August, but its long delay kept the $1,000 Qualcomm-powered Windows PC out of interested users’ hands for months. After a long wait from its initial September window, those still interested will finally be able to get one on Feb. 13. In an announcement Thursday, Samsung officially started taking preorders …
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