iPhone owners may have noticed a new icon showed up in the iMessage app drawer. If you are diligent with your app updates and updated the Google app recently, then you can now do a few new things with it right from within the iOS Messages app. Let us count the ways. Now playing: Watch …
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Today is your last chance to lock into the $35 per month price for YouTube TV. The streaming video service price jumps to $40 per month for new subscribers as of tomorrow. But if you sign up by 11:59 p.m. PT today — Monday, March 12 — you’ll be grandfathered in to the lower monthly price going forward. YouTube TV …
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Snowflakes begin to fall upon Nokia’s makeshift Finnish village at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona. For a moment, I’m charmed by the company’s all-in commitment to re-creating a scene straight out of Lapland on the Mediterranean coast, via what I presume is a fake snow machine. But then it dawns on me: there is nothing fake about …
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No doubt about it, the Apple iPod is easily the coolest audio product of the twenty-first century. Introduced in late 2001 it wasn’t the first portable digital music player, there were portable CD players like the Sony Discman in 1984, and they were definitely cool. Then Steve Jobs put his special spin on the iPod, “To have your whole CD …
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Google released the first developer preview of Android P on Wednesday, giving us a glimpse at what the upcoming update to its mobile operating system. Not a lot is known about the update right now, besides a few new features and tools for developers. However, we plan on covering new features and aspects of Android P leading up to its …
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The appeal of phone VR is simplicity and affordability: Just use a $100-ish set of goggles and your phone, and you’re set. Samsung gummed that up a bit over the last couple of years by requiring slightly different new models of Gear VR to fit its newer phones, most recently the Note 8 last year. This year, there are a …
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Google has taken a new step to make sure it’s not the only one who can use its technology to make websites load fast on smartphones. Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) technology undoubtedly makes websites show up fast on mobile devices. Now the company is working to get rid of the technology’s drawbacks too, by working to make it a …
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Mozilla launched the faster Quantum version of its Firefox browser last fall in a bid to restore the nonprofit’s reach and influence. Now, the leader of that effort has been promoted to oversee all Mozilla products. Mark Mayo, formerly senior vice president of Firefox, is now Mozilla’s chief product officer, CNET has learned. That means he’s taking over more projects, including the …
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Microsoft is ending Windows 10 S as its own distinct operating system. Windows 10 S, a stripped-down operation system targeting schools and students, launched last year as an alternative operating system to full-blown Windows 10. The simplified OS took a page from Google’s Chrome OS, which school administrators have flocked to for its simplicity. Window 10 S users, for example, …
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