T-Mobile CEO John Legere said that his company is not interested in being gobbled up by another competitor looking for more wireless spectrum. Instead, Legere and his team are focused on shaking up the wireless industry with a series of bold pricing and marketing moves. At the end of last year, rumors began floating around …
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8 January
BlackBerry commits to keyboards for future phones
BlackBerry may have ditched Alicia Keys, but keys are very much part of the company’s future. The new boss of the struggling manufacturer has confirmed BlackBerry phones will predominantly boast physical keyboards. “I personally love the keyboards,” interim CEO John Chen said in an interview yesterday with Bloomberg. In the past year, former boss Thorsten Heins attempted to usher BlackBerry …
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8 January
CES 2014 Day One Wrap: what you may have missed
Now playing: Watch this: CES 2014: Day one wrap 1:26 We may have already had two days of news and announcements but, believe it or not, we’ve only just finished day one of CES 2014. While it’s not the rapid-fire announcements of Press Day, there’s still plenty of news coming out of Las Vegas, so here are a few of …
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8 January
Smart TV Alliance to open TV app ‘portal’
The Smart TV ecosystem is a bit of a wild west at the moment, with app developers forced to negotiate separate contracts with all manufacturers in order to get their apps on TVs. LG’s new Smart TV operating system on display at CES 2014. (Credit: LG Electronics) The Smart TV Alliance is hoping to change that with its Common Developer …
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8 January
MPAA joins Web standards group amid video DRM dispute
The movie business now will have a direct voice in a controversy about how to handle copy protection of videos on the Web. That’s because the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a group that creates Web standards, such as the HTML technology that underlies every Web page on the Internet. “Just …
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8 January
Beyerdynamic wants to make your headphones sound better
Beyerdynamic makes some of my favorite headphones, but the company readily admits that an audio chain is only as good as its weakest link. Take their T 51 p on-ear headphones I raved about in November, they sound fine plugged into a phone, but to really hear the T 51 p, or any high-end headphone really strut its stuff you …
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8 January
The TV Show at CES 2014 (video)
Now playing: Watch this: CNET’s TV reviewers talk the most notable screens of… 14:37 LAS VEGAS — Looking for some of the most exciting TVs shown at CES 2014? Look no further. CNET TV reviewers David Katzmaier and Ty Pendlebury have been scouring the show floor for the last couple days, looking for the coolest displays. Join them and host …
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8 January
Doctor Who leads iPlayer’s biggest day ever
BBC iPlayer had its biggest day ever on New Year’s Day, with Doctor Who and Eastenders leading nearly 11 million TV and radio shows enjoyed — more than a third more than New Year’s Day last year. Doctor Who Christmas episode The Time of the Doctor, in which Matt Smith regenerated into new Time Lord Peter Capaldi, had the most …
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8 January
Nuvyyo’s Tablo DVR streams free over
Now playing: Watch this: Tablo is a DVR for over-the-air programming 1:41 LAS VEGAS — When Nuvyyo launched the Indiegogo campaign for the Tablo, the company’s new over-the-air DVR, the project sounded promising, but there was little to judge it on other than some impressive specs and a slick video. Here at CES 2014, I finally got my first chance …
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8 January
Samsung at CES 2014: gallery
Take a virtual tour around Samsung’s booth at CES in Las Vegas this year, with curved TVs and smart appliances as just some of the many products on show. Curves aplenty. (Credit: CBSi) Without a doubt, 2014 is the year of the curved TV — at CES at least, anyway. Samsung had a number of different models on display, including …
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