The Apple Watch may have captivated the wearables market, but not every owner is crazy about the gadget. The research firm Wristly wanted to know why, so it polled 330 Apple Watch owners in North America, Europe and other regions who had expressed dissatisfaction with Apple’s first wearable. Nine of 10 of respondents cited the …
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December, 2015
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1 December
How to update the BlackBerry Priv’s software
BlackBerry on Tuesday announced it had released the first software update for the BlackBerry Priv. According to BlackBerry, the update includes December’s Android security patch, improvements to the camera’s performance, better overall performance, and increased stability. For those who are familiar with the software upgrade process on Android, you already know what to do. But for those who’ve made the …
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1 December
Windows 10 continues to crawl its way onto desktop PCs
Microsoft’s Windows 10 isn’t setting any speed records moving up the desktop operating system food chain. The latest edition of Windows snagged a 9 percent share worldwide of all Web traffic generated by desktop operating systems in November, NetMarketShare said Tuesday. That number was up around a percentage point since October. Overall growth had been declining since the initial share …
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1 December
Hillary Clinton makes campaign stop on Quora
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday ventured where no 2016 presidential candidate has dared when she went on Q&A service Quora to promote her bid for the White House. The Democratic candidate for president joined the popular online forum to answer questions on a variety of hot-button topics, including her stance on the Affordable Care Act, defunding Planned Parenthood and how to …
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1 December
Zuckerberg’s newest Likes: A daughter and a $45B initiative
Mark Zuckerberg is a father, and now an even bigger philanthropist. The CEO of the world’s largest social network said Tuesday that his wife gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Max. As part of the announcement, he also revealed plans to establish the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which will receive 99 percent of Zuckerberg’s Facebook shares, currently worth …
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1 December
GPS
Motorola on Tuesday announced thats its Moto 360 Sport smartwatch will be available on December 18 in the UK and France. A few weeks later the fitness-focused smartwatch will arrive in the US, going on sale January 7 at Motorola’s website, followed by Best Buy stores on January 10. The Moto 360 Sport retails for $299 in the US. International …
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November, 2015
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30 November
How to disable autotagging on Facebook
If you have friends who love to upload pictures to Facebook, chances are that you get tagged pretty often. But sometimes you don’t want others to be able to share pictures of you without prior permission. By default, Facebook lets friends tag you in posts, in photos that look like you, and check you in to places that you haven’t …
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30 November
Stream TV audio to your smartphone with Tunity
One big reason the Roku 3 is my favorite streaming box: the remote. It has a headphone jack you can plug into when you want to watch TV without disturbing others. Wireless TV audio streamed right to the clicker: genius! Turns out there’s also an app for that. Tunity streams TV audio to your smartphone. It’s free, it works pretty …
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30 November
Samsung replaces chief of struggling mobile unit
Samsung might be doubling down on software. The South Korean electronics giant said Dongjin Koh, who most recently ran Samsung’s mobile research and development operations, will take over day-to-day management of the company’s huge smartphone business. JK Shin, who has served as the head of Samsung’s mobile communications business since 2009, will remain CEO of the mobile division and focus …
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30 November
The best IFTTT recipes for holiday shoppers
Holiday shopping is chaotic — but you can make it a little less chaotic with the help of automation service IFTTT. IFTTT, which stands for “If This, Then That” is a service that uses the Web to connect apps, devices and social networks together so you can automate actions. IFTTT lets you set up “recipes” — when something happens on …
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