July, 2015

• 30 July

  Beats 1 and the future of radio: Why one station ditched broadcast and went online

  

  Is the future of radio a shift from local broadcast to an online global audience? iStock With its new 24-hour global Beats 1 radio station streaming music and chat to Apple devices worldwide, Apple has launched the most high-profile Internet radio station ever. Is this the beginning of the end for broadcast radio? We spoke …

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• 30 July

  Join the Pocket beta for access to new features

  

  Nicole Cozma/CNET If you follow news on many different websites, and sometimes save links to read later, you might be familiar with Pocket. The app and browser tools Pocket offers will save articles in an easy-to-read format that you can enjoy online or offline when convenient. Now their team is opening a beta test group for Android, iOS, and Web …

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• 30 July

  Yelp is in a ‘death spiral,’ industry expert says

  

  Yelp, run by CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, saw its stock tank this week. Getty Tell someone about the week Yelp has had, and they might want to cry. The local business and reviews service has suffered a string of blows over the past few days, starting with drama over the murder of a lion, and then bad news it gave to …

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• 30 July

  Mozilla CEO slams Microsoft over Windows 10 browser defaults

  

  Mozilla’s CEO complains that Firefox is being Edged out by Microsoft. CNET Mozilla isn’t happy with Microsoft’s decision to make its Edge the default browser in Windows 10, and the Firefox maker’s chief executive has taken his displeasure public. In an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Mozilla CEO Chris Beard accuses Microsoft of hobbling users’ browser choices by …

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• 30 July

  Sony’s profit up, despite ongoing troubles in mobile

  

  Sony chief Kazuo Hirai was once high on smartphones. Now, he wants to focus efforts elsewhere. CBS Interactive Sony’s troubles in mobile are cutting deeply into the company’s pockets, a second-quarter earnings release shows. Sony’s Mobile & Communications division, which includes the sale of smartphones, saw revenue decline by 16.3 percent year-over-year to $2.3 billion (PDF). The division’s operating loss, …

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• 30 July

  IBM’s Watson wants to make you healthier in deal with CVS Health

  

  IBM’s Watson computer is aiming to make you healthier with a new partnership with CVS. IBM IBM has teamed up with CVS Health, the operator of thousands of drugstores across the US, in a bid to more accurately predict a person’s health troubles and provide advice. The two companies have formed a partnership that will feed IBM’s Watson “cognitive computing” …

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• 30 July

  Get a natural wood turntable and free LP carrying case for $119.99

  

  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. Electrohome I hereby dub this the Week Everything Sells Out! Seriously. No sooner do I fall all over myself trying to explain what happened with the previous day’s deal than the current deal …

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• 30 July

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  T-Mobile CEO John Legere had another good quarter of subscriber growth. Sarah Tew/CNET T-Mobile has shown it can win over customers at an impressive rate. Now it needs to prove it can consistently make money doing so. If the second quarter’s results are any indication, T-Mobile is off to a good start. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier posted a profit …

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• 29 July

  Misfit CEO Sonny Vu on Vietnam’s modern

  

  Click here for more Road Trip 2015 stories. HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Sonny Vu looks utterly at ease as he sips a Vietnamese iced coffee laden with condensed milk and opines about the state of technology in Vietnam. We’re sitting by the pool at his new home in Ho Chi Minh City in early July, the morning after …

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• 29 July

  Windows 10 tested: How performance on the new operating system compares to Windows 8

  

  Sarah Tew/CNET Windows 10 represents a major change in how PCs look and work. Most early reviews and impressions of the new operating system have been positive, emphasizing the integrated desktop and start menu, the new Edge browser, and the Cortana digital assistant. But historically, upgrading a PC to a new OS has been known to cause performance and compatibility …

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