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June, 2015

  • 15 June

    Huawei hints new Honor 7 phone will debut June 30 with fingerprint sensor

    Huawei’s new Honor 7 phone will offer a fingerprint sensor, according to the company’s new teaser poster. Huawei China’s Huawei will unveil its new Honor 7 phone on June 30, according to a teaser poster displayed on the Weibo website. The poster reveals the name Honor with the shape of the number seven, indicating the …

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  • 15 June

    PlayStation Vue announces a la carte service, coming to SF and LA

    Andrew House at E3. Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET Speaking at Sony’s presentation on Monday at the 2015 E3 gaming expo, the company announced big changes coming to its Vue, its live TV streaming service — new regions, as of tonight, and an a la carte channel service launching in July 2015. Related articles PlayStation Vue vs. Sling TV: Streaming live …

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  • 15 June

    ​Adobe Stock opens photo sales channel straight into Photoshop

    Adobe Stock offers imagery from the company’s Fotolia service, but with a direct link to Photoshop and other Adobe software. Adobe Systems For decades, Adobe Systems has supplied creative pros with tools like Photoshop. Now the company is supplying photos and illustrations, too, through a new service called Adobe Stock that the company launched Tuesday. Adobe Stock is based on …

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  • 15 June

    ¡Aló! Sprint and T

    T-Mobile and Sprint brands offering calls and messages to Cuba. Josh Miller/CNET Both Sprint and T-Mobile are making it easier to contact friends and family members living in Cuba. On Monday, both wireless providers introduced options to dial the island nation. Related Link Sprint Prepaid adds rollover data, with a catch Netflix begins streaming in Cuba as relations with US …

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  • 15 June

    Keyboard in iOS 9 points to larger Apple tablet, developer says

    Rumors of an Apple tablet with a larger screen have been swirling for well over a year, but a hint in iOS 9 suggests that could be changing. App developer Steve Troughton-Smith said he found a feature built into the virtual keyboard in iOS 9, the newest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, that adds new keys and allows it …

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  • 15 June

    Keep watching a show and browse the guide on the Xfinity X1 box

    Matt Elliott/CNET Unlike the previous cable box from Comcast, the Xfinity X1 box doesn’t leave your current program running in a small window while you browse the guide. With the X1 box, the full-screen guide takes over your TV, whether you are scrolling through the channel list of the Guide or viewing the Saved, On Demand, Search, Apps or Settings …

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  • 15 June

    Spotify ‘Rewind’ plays time

    Travel back into the musical past with Spotify Taste Rewind. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Spotify is trying to expand your tastes in music by suggesting older songs it thinks you might like. With a new feature dubbed Spotify Taste Rewind, the company is acknowledging that many users get stuck listening to music from a certain decade, especially the one in …

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  • 15 June

    Exetel cuts off unlimited internet claiming ‘unfair’ heavy use

    Getty Images Hundreds of Exetel customers have had their Internet service terminated after being deemed “exceedingly heavy users,” despite the ISP offering unlimited data allowances as part of its plan offering. The Australian Internet service provider opted to “let go” the data-hungry users, sending notice to “around 400” customers and warning them that they had 30 days to find a …

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  • 15 June

    Motorola slashes $50 off the Moto X

    Motorola dangles a carrot in front of prospective smartphone buyers. Josh Miller/CNET In the market for a new unlocked smartphone? Motorola hopes its latest promotion is enough to get you to consider the Moto X as your next device. Related Links Moto X (2014) review Moto X (2014) flicks on built-in flashlight with Android 5.1 update Best phones of 2015 …

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  • 15 June

    Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 drizzles Android apps, Photoshop artboards, photo dehazing and more

    Illustrator’s useful artboards come to Photoshop Adobe Although Creative Cloud gets rolling updates, Adobe still does “big” splashes at least once a year, as well as at its Adobe Max conference in October, folding in some of the features released in the months prior as “new.” I wasn’t able to get access in advance to the updated apps and applications …

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