Online shopping is awesome — there are deals around every corner, you can do it in your pajamas, and sometimes you don’t even have to pay sales tax! But there is a downside: No instant gratification. Once you make an online purchase, you need to wait days or even weeks before it’s in your hand, …
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14 December
Silicon Valley needs you, but isn’t willing to pay enough
It’s never been a better time to be a computer coder. But talk to hiring managers and you hear a different story. First the good news: A record 78 percent of hiring managers throughout the tech industry say they plan on hiring more people in the first half of 2016 than they did in the second half of this year, …
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14 December
Telstra opens Air Wi
Telstra has opened up access to its Australia-wide Wi-Fi network, known as Telstra Air, giving mobile customers unlimited access to free Wi-Fi until June 2016. As an added bonus, existing Air customers on home broadband will also be able to use the Wi-Fi network over summer until next June without data usage counting towards their monthly broadband allowance. The move …
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14 December
Floppy Candidate is Flappy Bird with Clinton and Trump
Perhaps the US presidential race would be more fun to follow if the candidates could fly? The Washington Post on Monday released a mobile game called Floppy Candidate that essentially mimics the gameplay elements from the hit game Flappy Bird by replacing the airborne bird with 2016 presidential hopefuls. “A team of in-house engineers, designers and producers came together to …
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14 December
You can now use an Apple Watch to control a GoPro camera
Have an Apple Watch and a GoPro camera with built-in Wi-Fi? Great, you can now get control of your shots straight from your wrist. The action-camera maker released an iOS app update so you can use your Apple Watch as a viewfinder, start and stop recordings and take photos and switch between capture modes. This is incredibly convenient for when …
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14 December
Samsung takes Apple patent battle to US Supreme Court
Samsung’s taking its suit against Apple all the way to the Supreme Court — if the justices will consider the case, that is. The South Korean electronics giant on Monday filed a request with the highest court in the US, asking it to re-examine the decisions made in the patent infringement lawsuits pitting Samsung against Apple. The trial, which ended …
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14 December
Enter for your chance to win* the Cheapskate Mega Goodie
CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Enlarge Image Hand not included. iPad Air 2…included. Sarah Tew/CNET Contest time! I know, lots of contests these last few weeks. Like? No …
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14 December
Apple amps up efforts in India by drastically cutting iPhone 5S price
Three months ago, India was one of the most expensive places in the world to buy an iPhone, even an older model like the 5S. That’s not necessarily the case anymore. The 5S, first released in September 2013, will now retail for Rs 24,999 ($370, AU$520, £245), which is almost half the Rs 44,500 ($665, AU$920, £440) it was being …
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14 December
Get started with your brand
You’ve just unboxed a shiny new iOS device — your first! — and you’re staring at it with ample excitement and a tinge of fear. Fear of the unknown, of technology and that you’ll mess something up. It’s OK — natural, even — to feel that way; new technology is intimidating. We’ve all been there, and undoubtedly will be there …
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14 December
BBC iPlayer arrives on Apple TV just in time for Christmas
You’ll be able to catch festive treats such as “Sherlock“, “Doctor Who” and “Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer’s Llamas” via Apple this Christmas as iPlayer comes to the new Apple TV. Set-top boxes and streaming devices like Apple TV are only as good as the content you can watch through them, which means apps for the popular TV and video …
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