A small battle is brewing in the scooter world. It involves an app called Scooter Map, which its developer said was created to help people find scooters from all companies grouped together in one app. Problem is, one of the world’s largest rental scooter companies doesn’t like it. Lime sent Victor Pontis, Scooter Map’s developer, …
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Chipmaker Broadcom said Thursday that it’s entered into multiyear deals to supply Apple with wireless components used in its products. The deals could generate $15 billion for Broadcom, the company said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing said the agreements cover components for Apple devices that’ll be released for the next three and a …
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Forcing Apple to change iPhones from Lightning to USB-C connectors would cause “an unprecedented volume of electronic waste,” the company said Thursday. The remark follows a European Commission call earlier this month for a common charger for all mobile phones, an effort to reduce waste and make life easier for consumers. Apple argues, however, that this would create even more waste, because …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Mobile voting is here, but only for one county in Washington state. King County, which includes Seattle and has a population of almost 2.2 million, has introduced electronic voting via phone in the upcoming King Conservation District Board of Supervisors election. The election …
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If you’re an Android user who has long envied Apple’s AirDop, which allows file sharing between iPhones, Samsung may have some good news for you. The Korean electronics giant is working on a similar feature called Quick Share that will allow files to be shared between Galaxy phones, according to XDA Developers. The feature will allow users to share photos, …
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T-Mobile provides banking services through its T-Mobile Money offering, but it soon won’t be the only telecom to enter the world of finance. On Thursday Verizon announced that it will be partnering with financial firm Synchrony to offer a co-branded consumer card to its customers later in the “first half of 2020.” Verizon is the latest, but far from the …
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Netflix has dismissed any suggestions the so-called streaming wars would be its undoing. With its latest earnings report, the company still isn’t sweating the pressure, as it added more subscribers than expected even as it faced new rival services from Disney and Apple. Its not-very-secret weapon? Gigantic international scale. Already the world’s dominant subscription streaming service, Netflix saw subscribers climb by …
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Apple is reportedly ready to return to the low-cost phone market after an absence of four years. The company plans to begin production on a cheaper iPhone in February, with an official unveiling coming as early as March, sources tell Bloomberg. The handset — believed to be comparable in size to the 4.7-inch iPhone 8 from 2017 — would be …
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Several senators have been spotted wearing Apple Watches during the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump, a report says. It comes despite rules stating senators cannot have phones or electronic devices in the chamber, RollCall said Tuesday. Six Republican senators and two Democratic senators reportedly sported the smart watch, along with an aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. …
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Streaming music player manufacturer Sonos will stop sending out software updates to some older devices after May 2020. The devices will still work, they just won’t receive regular feature updates. Sonos says the affected devices were on sale from 2004 and include: Connect (pre-2015), ZonePlayer ZP80, ZonePlayer ZP90 Connect:Amp (pre-2015), ZonePlayer ZP100, ZonePlayer 120 CR200 Play:5 (Gen 1), ZonePlayer S5 Sonos Bridge, ZoneBridge …
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