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. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Enlarge Image This is absolutely positively the mixed-reality Star Wars experience you’re looking …
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HTC will now have to find someone new to lead its smartphone division. Today the company announced that its president in charge of smartphones, Chialin Chang, has tendered his resignation because of his “personal career plan.” Currently the investor note announcing the news has “N/A” listed as Chang’s replacement. In a statement supplied to CNET, an HTC spokesperson said “We …
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Secretive mixed-reality startup Magic Leap is itching to go mobile. Its ability to create the illusion of 3D objects in the world around you has garnered endless buzz, and the company is flush with more than $2 billion in funding from high-profile investors such as Google, Qualcomm and Warner Bros. It’s now set to strike a partnership with a “major …
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Score another goooooaaaaal for live sports online. ESPN Plus, Disney’s upcoming $5 per month streaming service, has nabbed exclusive rights to MLS Live, Major League Soccer’s out-of-market streaming package. Previously MLS Live cost $80 for the year, so its inclusion in ESPN Plus, which costs $60 per year, represents a major price cut for fans of US soccer. In addition …
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Google won’t say how many Pixel phones it shipped in 2017, but one analyst from the research firm IDC has a number: 3.9 million. The analyst, IDC Research Director Francisco Jeronimo, said the figure includes both generations of the phone, the Pixel 1 and 2. For comparison, it’s a “tiny portion” compared with the entire 1.5 billion market size for …
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Select Vizio 4K TVs now work with Alexa, thanks to a SmartCast skill released today. Customers with a P-, M- or E-series SmartCast display and an Amazon smart speaker can control their TV hands-free. Turn the display on and off, adjust the volume, channel and input and even tell your Alexa speaker to pause, fast forward or rewind — all with simple …
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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. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Seagate “Oh, boy, here goes Rick again, telling crazy stories about what life was like back in his …
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It doesn’t seem that long ago that owning a mobile phone meant roping yourself into a two-year carrier contract, to the tune of at least $70 per month. Barf. These days, you can skip the contract and pay considerably less, especially if you choose an MVNO — a mobile virtual network operator. These carriers lease bandwidth from the Big Four …
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Google wants you to be able to do more things directly from your email, like answering a survey or scheduling an appointment. To make that happen, the search giant said Tuesday, it’s bringing its Accelerate Mobile Pages, or AMP, technology to Gmail, which has more than a billion users. “This new spec will be a powerful way for developers to …
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Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz said the mixed-reality startup’s headset will cost about as much as a high-end desktop computer when it’s released later this year, the first in what will be multiple products from the company. “It’s a premium computer so we’re pricing it that way,” Abovitz said Tuesday at the Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, California. Magic Leap is …
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