Western Australia has introduced holiday double demerit point penalties for using a phone while driving. We know it’s illegal, but where do you stand on a state-by-state breakdown of the law? A 2011 study of road accidents in New South Wales and Victoria found that only 0.9 per cent were attributed to using a mobile …
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10 April
Amazon app store grows to 200,000 apps
Josh Miller/CNET Amazon’s app store now has 200,000 apps, CEO Jeff Bezos announced Thursday in a letter to investors. The store has nearly tripled in size over the past year and is now in almost 200 countries, Bezos wrote in the letter, which also covered the rest of Amazon’s multitude of services, including Prime, Instant Video, Amazon Web Services, and …
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10 April
Transfer content from your iPhone to Galaxy S5
Now playing: Watch this: Transfer data from an iPhone to a Galaxy S5 2:05 It’s natural to dread the process of changing from iOS to Android. To begin, Apple does the inexplicable by holding your phone number hostage with iMessage, and getting your vital information from iOS to Android can be a chore. Then there’s figuring out how to get …
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10 April
Aereo’s live TV coming to Chromecast in May
Google’s Chromecast dongle. Sarah Tew/CNET Aereo announced Thursday that it’s bringing its online over-the-air broadcast TV steaming and recording to Google’s Chromecast dongle on May 29. The feature will be available via an Aereo app for Android on Google Play. This Aereo app brings back a novel idea: it means users can tune into television on their televisions — rather …
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10 April
Foxtel responds to Game of Thrones pirates
There was no surprise around the news that Game of Thrones had, once again, broken torrent records with the premiere episode of season four. (Screenshot by Nic Healey/CNET Australia) What was surprising was that, according to Torrentfeak, Australia accounted for a full 11.6 per cent of torrent traffic, making us the number one GoT downloaders in the world, up from …
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9 April
BlackBerry CEO may be contemplating sale of handset unit
BlackBerry CEO John Chen at a press roundtable session at the Consumer Electronics Show. Roger Cheng/CNET BlackBerry CEO John Chen said Wednesday that the company might stop making mobile phones if it continues to lose profits on its devices, according to Reuters. “If I cannot make money on handsets, I will not be in the handset business,” John Chen told …
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9 April
Samsung Gear Fit evolves with newest software
Scott Stein / CNET It’s a common truth in new tech: a company releases a firmware update, and suddenly there are all-new features to discover. When I reviewed the Samsung Gear Fit , I was using the latest software Samsung had at the time. I couldn’t use the Fit’s long display in anything other than a sideways-landscape mode, which meant …
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9 April
ZTE V5 lands in China for $113; no word on international expansion
ZTE, the embattled China-based mobile company, launched a new smartphone on Wednesday that promises big features at a cheap price. Dubbed the V5, the Android-based handset comes to China with a quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor and 5-inch 720p HD display. It also features a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera, and 5-megapixel front-facing camera. ZTE is offering five color options on the Redbull …
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9 April
HTC One M8 on Sprint update brings extreme power saving mode
The power-saving mode shuts down non-essential features Screenshot Sprint customers who’ve picked up HTC’s swanky new One M8 will soon be enjoying a new feature, as a fresh update brings the flagship’s ‘extreme power saving mode’ to bear. The update is number 1.54.651.8, and adds the missing mode, which conserves CPU usage, cranks down the screen brightness, turns off vibration, …
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9 April
Odin Mobile dials up LG Nexus 5
Odin Mobile adds Google’s flagship Nexus 5 to its roster Odin Mobile Odin Mobile, the wireless provider who caters to visually impaired users, has added another smartphone to its roster. Today sees the arrival of the LG Nexus 5 , one of the top Android handsets of the last few months. Related links Newly minted Odin Mobile sells phones for …
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