Phonemaker Blu Products wants to take out better-known Motorola’s Moto G with its own budget model. The Blu Life One X generally sells for $150 unlocked, but is on sale through December 12 for $100. US-based Blu has been among the more prolific unlocked-phone vendors in the last few years, releasing a steady stream of …
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10 December
Chromecast Audio adds support for multiroom music and high
Google is delivering on its promise of several months ago with two notable updates to its Chromecast Audio product: The $35 audio streamer now supports multiroom music and high-resolution music over Wi-Fi. Both of the features were touted when the tiny digital music dongle launched in September. Using the Chromecast app, users can now group units around the house under …
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10 December
How I got Office 365 and a free tablet for $40
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 Thanks for the $40 Office 365 subscription! You go ahead and keep the tablet. Newegg Let’s just take it as read …
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10 December
HeartWatch app makes sense of Apple Watch heart rate data
The Apple Watch records a user’s heart rate every 1o minutes, and logs it into the Health app. The data is then viewable, charted on a graph or as individual data points. While it’s beneficial to have a log of your heart data, the way the Health app displays the data doesn’t provide much insight into your heart’s activity. As …
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9 December
Two more wild iPhone concepts we’d like to see one day
Daydreaming about future gadgets that don’t exist (and probably never will) has become a popular pastime, with too many slick iPhone concept videos coming out now for us to keep up with. But every now and then there are a few truly novel ideas worth sharing, like the recent one above from the Sonitdac YouTube channel that imagines a CO2-powered …
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9 December
Huawei has something ‘creative’ in store next month at CES
This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Huawei is planning double duty at CES 2016 this year in Las Vegas with two events earmarked for press. We just received an invitation to a party/announcement for Honor, a brand name that …
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9 December
Bitcoin whodunit leads to Oz
The search for the creator of cryptocurrency Bitcoin may have turned up a new lead. Two separate investigations published Tuesday, by Wired and Gizmodo, identified Australian businessman Craig Steven Wright as a key figure in the development of Bitcoin. According to both publications, Wright may have developed the digital currency with Dave Kleiman, an American computer forensics analyst who died …
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9 December
iPhone gives ground to Android in US and Europe
Android has been nibbling away at Apple’s slice of the smartphone market in the United States and Europe, a new report shows. Between August and October, the iPhone’s smartphone share in the US fell fell by 8.3 percentage points to 33.6 percent, compared with the same period in 2014, Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reported on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the US share for …
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9 December
Watch Me, Liam Neeson, lip
A “Furious 7” soundtrack smash, late-night celebrity shenanigans and a giant ball pool: these were the most watched and talked-about videos on YouTube in 2015. The hugely popular video-sharing site has revealed its official top trending videos of the year while launching a new Trending tab that shows you what’s currently hot. The annual list is compiled by YouTube, based …
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9 December
Net neutrality rules under assault again: Here’s what you need to know (FAQ)
The third time could be the charm for government regulators defending rules to protect an open Internet. The Federal Communications Commission was back in federal court on Friday to defend its controversial Net neutrality regulations, which have governed how Internet traffic is treated since they went into effect in June. This is the third time the agency has been forced …
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