Move over BlackBerry. The iPhone is head to Ford town. Josh Miller/CNET The iPhone is muscling out the BlackBerry at yet another major organization. A Ford spokeswoman told Bloomberg this week that the automaker will replace BlackBerry devices with iPhones for about 3,300 employees before the year is over. Further, the flip phones used by …
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30 July
Google Glass enters operating room at Stanford
Dr. Christopher Kaeding performs ACL surgery and transmits the progress to a Google Hangout. Ohio State University Scalpel. Forceps. Needle-holder. These are common tools that all surgeons-in-training must familiarize themselves with. But doctors learning to become cardiothoracic surgeons at Stanford University Medical School will have to add a new one to that list: Google Glass. Google has partnered with live-streaming …
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30 July
Fitness tracking goes under the security spotlight
Symantec The wearable market is currently estimated be worth around $14 billion and it’s on the way up. According to AB Research, by 2018 over 485 million wearable devices will ship each year. Fitness trackers are just one part of the market, but they’re a high profile one and it’s little surprise that they’ve fallen under Symantec’s security microscope. Symantec’s …
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30 July
FCC chairman puts Verizon in hot seat over new throttling policy
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler addresses attendees at the 2014 Cable Show. CNET/Joan Solsman Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, who has been skewered publicly for his handling of the Net neutrality rules rewrite, is showing he can stand up to big broadband companies he thinks are taking advantage of consumers. On Wednesday, he sent a letter to Verizon’s top wireless …
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30 July
Why Sprint can’t hit the gas on cheaper plans…yet
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse at a company event in June. Sarah Tew/CNET The wireless carriers are only mover faster when it comes to aggressively priced plans and promotions. Yet Sprint remains stuck in the slow lane. Over the last several months, Verizon Wireless piled on more data and cut prices through its , AT&T launched an attractive shared family plan …
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30 July
Korean handset maker Pantech saved from bankruptcy
The Pantech Vybe (AT&T) is a QWERTY messaging phone for the US market. Josh Miller/CNET Korea’s number three handset maker Pantech has been given another lifeline after standing at the brink of bankruptcy due to the company’s immense debt. A group of Pantech’s creditors have agreed to extend the deadline for debt repayment by two years, interest-free, to July 25, …
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30 July
The iOS 7.1.2 contacts fix you need to see
And here I thought it was just me. I have noticed recently that new contacts I create in the Phone app of my iPhone are not showing up in my contacts list. Turns out, iOS 7.1.2 changed a setting in a way that can prevent new contacts from showing up in your contacts list or syncing across your devices. To …
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30 July
EU antitrust regulators to scrutinize Google’s Android, report says
Google’s Android mobile operating system, running on a Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone James Martin/CNET Google may soon face a new probe by European antitrust regulators over business practices related to Android, the most popular mobile operating system in the world. The European Commission is prepping a new investigation that includes sending out questionnaires to companies about their dealings with Google …
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30 July
PSB’s sweet
I’ve been using PSB Image T6 towers ($1,298 a pair) at the CNET office as one of my reference speakers for a little over a year (it was in production long before I reviewed it). Now that it’s discontinued I wanted to check out PSB’s smaller Imagine X1T towers ($898 a pair). I looked at the two speakers side by …
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29 July
Smartphone kill switch could save US consumers $3.4B, study says
Apple’s Find my iPhone James Martin/CNET Lawmakers have been clamoring for antitheft software to become standard and enabled on all smartphones, in an attempt to curb a rising tide of mobile device thefts over the last few years. But a researcher from Creighton University’s Heider College of Business has been looking into another benefit to the software. In a study …
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