August, 2015

• 25 August

  What’s behind smartphone market’s slowing growth? Look to China

  

  Apple’s China retail stores are still filled with consumers looking to buy iPhones, CEO Tim Cook says. Apple The worldwide smartphone market will grow in the coming years, but new research suggests its meteoric rise over the past several years will start to slow over sluggishness in China. Smartphone shipments will rise 10.4 percent in …

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• 25 August

  TuneIn takes the ads out of your on

  

  TuneIn’s $8/month subscription removes ads from regular radio and adds baseball games and audiobooks. TuneIn TuneIn, the site best known for streaming thousands of radio stations online, is angling to become the one-stop shop for everything you feed into your ears. The company on Tuesday added an $8-a-month subscription that unlocks a variety of new perks: It removes the audio …

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• 25 August

  How to get Cortana on your Mac

  

  Enlarge Image Jason Cipriani/CNET Last week Parallels released an update to its program that gives Mac users the ability to run Windows apps alongside OS X apps. The update added support for Windows 10 and Apple’s upcoming release of OS X El Capitan. With the addition of Windows 10 support, Parallels also makes it possible to use Microsoft’s personal assistant …

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• 25 August

  Get a Mohu Leaf HDTV antenna for $14.99

  

  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. Enlarge ImageYep, it’s an antenna. Mohu Ah, the good old days, when candy bars were a quarter and TV was free. Now I have to pay $1.29 for my Twix fix? Come on! …

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• 25 August

  Mynt is a Bluetooth tracking tag that also functions as a remote control

  

  Slightech Bluetooth trackers are pretty common these days, with various devices cropping up to help you locate phones, keys, bags and even umbrellas . These tags tend to be pretty simple: just stick them on your device and then use a phone app to work out where you last left the blasted thing. But Mynt, which is currently at the …

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• 25 August

  Meet Wileyfox, an ‘edgy’ new mobile brand powered by Cyanogen

  

  Enlarge ImageWileyfox is a new mobile phone brand powered by Cyanogen. Luke Westaway/CNET LONDON — Stand by for a new name in the mobile market: Wileyfox is a whole new smartphone brand launching here today, and at the core is an Android rival called Cyanogen. Cyanogen is an operating system based on Google’s Android, adding different features to give you …

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• 25 August

  Apple updates Logic Pro X music program with a powerful new synth and an Apple Music tie

  

  Apple Apple has updated its professional-level music creation and editing suite, Logic Pro X , for the second time this year. The new 10.2 version comes just eight months after version 10.1, and like the previous update, Logic Pro X 10.2 is available for free to current owners of Logic Pro X (the entire software package costs $199). The highlight …

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• 25 August

  Export Google Keep notes to Docs

  

  Google Keep on Android Photo by Nicole Cozma/CNET If you write a lot of notes in Google Keep, you may find yourself needing to convert some of them to actual documents. For instance, if you take down a list of things to remember when you’re reviewing a restaurant you’ve recently visited, you’ll want to work it into a more readable …

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• 24 August

  Multideal Monday: GoPro alternative, shower radio and more

  

  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. Let’s get the week started off right, shall we? With a multi-deal Monday! A low-price GoPro alternative GoPro is the Apple of action cams: great hardware, but painfully expensive. In the past I’ve …

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• 24 August

  How to set up sync in Google Chrome

  

  Editors’ note, August 24, 2015: This post was originally published on March 26, 2011, and has been updated to include new information. Having multiple computers can be great when one of them is a laptop for mobile computing and another stays at home for the family. Fortunately, Google Chrome lets you sync your bookmarks and extensions so you don’t have …

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