Now playing: Watch this: Mobile World Oops 3:33 A great CNET tradition at the end of the calendar year and big technology trade shows like Mobile World Congress is the CNET TV blooper reel. Flubbed lines, accidental swearing, and breaks in concentration are bound to happen. And really, after so many long hours walking a …
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27 February
EU to Apple, Google: Free game apps? Yeah, right
Apple and Google will be among the organizations to talk to the EU this week about the impact “freemium” apps are having on the industry. In a statement on Thursday, the EU’s European Commission said that it wants to investigate in-app purchases on games that can be downloaded for free. The Commission argues that while games can be downloaded for …
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27 February
The quickest way to close all open Safari tabs in iOS 7
Jason Cipriani/CNET When iOS 7 launched with a redesigned Safari tab interface, we showed you how to manage open tabs. But one thing we missed that should have been obvious was a workaround to closing every open tab at the same time. Have you ever tried swiping away 10 or 15 tabs? It’s an exercise in frustration, to say the …
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27 February
Secrets of the Samsung Galaxy S5: MWC daily round
All the big announcements may have been made at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but there’s still plenty happening there. We’ve found the Samsung Galaxy S5‘s hidden superpowers, tried out a Chinese mobile that stays secure just by recognising your face, uncovered some new Samsung goodies, and found some of the craziest concepts of recent years. And it’s all in …
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27 February
The Germans get serious about making great in
InEar is a new name to me, but it’s an established German maker of high-end headphones. ALO’s Ken Ball contacted me a few months ago about trying out some InEars and he sent over two models, the StageDiver 2 and StageDiver 3. They look similar to custom-molded in-ear monitors from Ultimate Ears and Westone, but the StageDivers are universal-fit models …
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26 February
I’m Tracer is a wearable GPS tracker for kids and pets
BARCELONA, Spain — Italian company I’m Spa’s latest product, the I’m Tracer, is a GPS tracker that can be worn as a wristband — or a collar for your pet. Underneath the water- and shock-resistant rubber casing is a GPS tracker as well as a SIM card. The I’m Tracer uses GSM to triangulate your position before getting a lock …
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26 February
Hands
Wednesday is usually the hump day of any tech trade show. The big guns have announced their main products, and everyone is generally a bit tired. But there’s still plenty going on at MWC. Like Sony’s SmartBand, for example, that we went hands-on with. Throw in Sony’s wearable camera concept that tracks everything you do, some cool new in-car tech, …
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26 February
UppWireless offers $15 BYOD phone service
Looking for dirt-cheap phone service for your smartphone? If it’s an unlocked GSM phone that began life on AT&T or T-Mobile, you might want to check out UppWireless. For as little as $15 per month, you can stock your smartphone with a no-contract SIM card that leverages Wi-Fi and 3G/4G connectivity for calls, text, and data. But is it really …
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26 February
Futuremark demos new, more taxing mobile 3D benchmark, PCMark for mobile
BARCELONA, Spain — As a devout user of Futuremark’s mobile 3D benchmark, 3DMark, it brought a smile to my face to see two new benchmark demoed at Mobile World Congress 2014. Each are coming later this year to Android, iOS, and Windows RT. The first is a new workload for 3DMark, the company’s mobile benchmark for testing a device’s 3D …
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26 February
Windows Phone to be fastest growing mobile OS, says IDC
Windows Phone could be the only major mobile OS to see a gain in market share in the next few years. Released Wednesday, IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker forecasts a rise in Windows Phone’s global market share from 3.9 percent this year to 7 percent in 2018. That may not seem like a huge leap, but such growth will …
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