CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Enlarge Image Want want want. ThinkGeek Can we get our geek on for a minute? I love me …
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Well, it happened. Your phone is lost. Or broken. Maybe even stolen. And because your entire life is contained in that thing, now you’ve got problems. Your passwords — gone. Contacts, gone. Trip details, appointment calendar, photos from the wedding, that book you were reading — all gone. Thankfully, you planned ahead. Nearly all your data is synced to the …
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Amazon took an additional step to unwind its Quidsi business, which operates Diapers.com and Soap.com. As of Tuesday morning, Quidsi.com now redirects to Amazon.com. The Quidsi site as recently as last week was the division’s main portal, providing visitors with the company’s history, job openings listings and links to its six specialty retail websites: Diapers.com, Soap.com, BeautyBar.com, Wag.com, Yoyo.com and …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Enlarge Image Google Greetings from Chicago, quite possibly my single favorite city in these United States. It’s where I first experienced Trapped in …
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OK Google, meet Bixby. Alexa, meet Bixby. Hey Siri — never mind, you all get the point. There’s another voice assistant on the block, this time from Samsung and coming exclusively to its new Galaxy S8 phone later this month. It does a lot of the same stuff those other digital helpers already do, only it does them worse while …
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Amazon’s tough stance on counterfeiters appears to have paid off. A federal jury ruled in favor of Fitness Anywhere LLC (TRX) on Thursday awarding the fitness equipment company $6.8 million in damages. The decision came after TRX sued WOSS Enterprises for patent and trademark infringement, alleging it manipulated e-commerce platforms like Amazon. This decision marks a legal precedent in brands’ …
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Amazon may be the king of e-commerce, but that doesn’t mean everything it does is successful. The company confirmed Wednesday it plans to shut down its Quidsi business, after Amazon struggled to make it profitable over the past seven years. Bloomberg first reported the change. Amazon bought Quidsi in 2011 for $545 million. The business runs six specialty retail sites: …
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Reading books on your iPhone: awesome. Doing other cool stuff with the Kindle iOS app: icing on the cake. For example, did you know you can save web pages for later viewing? Or organize your books into folders? Here’s how to do all that and more. Buy books on the go Enlarge Image Visit the Kindle Mobile Store in your …
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Samsung’s new Bixby assistant for the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus (and beyond) isn’t exactly like Siri, Google Voice Search, Amazon Alexa or Microsoft Cortana, and that may confound you. Especially when Google Assistant also lives on both S8 phones. So what is it? I find it’s easier to think of Bixby as an app in three parts — Bixby …
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AmazonFresh Pickup has arrived. Amazon on Tuesday showed off a quick video and landing page for its newest store concept: grocery pickup locations. The stores are still in beta, with only Amazon employees able to use them. The company didn’t say when the two stores in Seattle will open to the public, but the locations will only be available for …
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