March, 2015

• 25 March

  Six tips to get the most out of Fantastical 2 for Mac

  

  Fantastical 2 Mac year view. Jason Cipriani/CNET Fantastical is a calendar app from Flexibits for iOS and OS X. The iOS version was updated for iOS 7’s design language a while ago, with the Mac version having been left behind. Today, that changes. Flexibits is releasing Fantastical 2 for Mac. The upgrade is designed specifically …

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• 25 March

  Zuckerberg aims to tie Facebook into the app world

  

  Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg works to fire up the legion of developers attending the F8 conference in San Francisco. James Martin/CNET SAN FRANCISCO — A year ago, Mark Zuckerberg walked on a San Francisco stage promising a better relationship between Facebook and app developers. On Wednesday, he followed through. As CEO of the world’s largest social network, Zuckerberg touted initiatives …

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• 25 March

  Google’s high

  

  Salt Lake City is among five metro areas targeted for the next rounds of Google Fiber. Google Salt Lake City is now on the list to get a taste of Google’s all-fiber network for super high-speed Internet and TV services. The Utah city joins Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and Nashville, Tenn., as the next metro regions in line, Devin …

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• 25 March

  Get a GoGroove BlueSync OR3 portable speaker for $16.99

  

  Accessory Power This is an update of a deal I first wrote about last year. What’s changed? The price, of course: it’s now even lower! In a few days it will be April, and that means we’re heading into the second biggest gift-giving season of the year: Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and graduation. And what kid, mom, dad or …

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• 25 March

  Facebook dives deeper into the connected home

  

  Parse CEO and founder Ilya Sukhar talks about the Internet of Things during Facebook’s F8 developer conference in San Francisco. James Martin/CNET Facebook is fully jumping into the Internet of Things. The world’s largest social network introduced Wednesday a new set of developer tools for creating apps that will let users remotely control devices within their homes, such as garage …

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• 25 March

  Facebook’s WhatsApp isn’t opening up, much to developers’ chagrin

  

  Brian Acton of WhatsApp disappointed some in the audience at Facebook’s F8 developer conference. Paul Sakuma What does $19 billion buy you? Sometimes, it’s a spot of trouble. That’s what Facebook found out at its F8 developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday when executives tried to explain to an eager crowd of app developers why it wasn’t going to …

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• 25 March

  Facebook to support ‘spherical’ videos in News Feed, Oculus Rift headset

  

  The Oculus Rift, still only sold to developers as a work-in-progress, will be home to Facebook’s new interactive 360-degree videos. Nick Statt/CNET When Facebook accidentally dumped details of its F8 developer’s conference through a mobile notification yesterday, it cryptically mentioned its new so-called “teleportation station.” Now, we know what the social-networking company was talking about: spherical videos. These interactive short …

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• 25 March

  Beastgrip Pro may be a monster rig for shooting phone video (hands

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Beastgrip Pro hopes to tame phoneography 3:08 I once spent a day at CES photographing the different ways people had rigged out their phones, tablets, cameras and camcorders for reporting on the show: there seems to be an infinite number. Beastgrip Pro tries to take on all of them. And based on my preview of the …

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• 25 March

  FTC commissioners deny ignoring Google lawsuit recommendations

  

  FTC commissioners say their decision was based on staff recommnendations. CNET Three commissioners for the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday defended their actions during its antitrust investigation of Google, denying reports that it ignored investigators’ recommendations to sue the search giant. Internal agency documents released last week revealed that Google avoided an antitrust lawsuit after the commissioners’ investigators issued a …

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• 25 March

  The Onkyo of turntables, the CP

  

  Onkyo CP-1050 Steve Guttenberg/CNET Onkyo must have noticed vinyl’s continuing upward sales numbers, the highest since 1997, so the company’s started selling turntables. Voila, we now have the direct-drive Onkyo CP-1050, and it’s a honey! First things first, I love the understated design; the CP-1050 isn’t retro or trying to look like a British record player. Build quality is solid, …

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