The retailer is now alerting customers that their orders for the Evo 4G LTE are being delayed indefinitely since Sprint has changed the release date.
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What a surprise: the U.K. government was forced to reveal under Freedom of Information laws that more than 1,000 civil servants have “snooped” on British citizens’ private data.
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The Korean phone maker’s next-generation Galaxy S phone is off to a hot start in anticipation of its release later this month.
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Hitting entries in Google’s 500-million-item database of things is still a bit of a roulette spin.
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Check out CNET’s blow-by-blow coverage of the IPO, starting Friday morning, complete with regular updates, analysis, and commentary.
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A smaller version of the iPad is coming, you say? What is this 2009? No really. We’ve heard this before.
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The companies are in talks for the Web pioneer to sell a large chunk of its holdings in the China e-commerce giant, sources tell All Things D.
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Verizon Wireless subscribers are hopping mad about losing their unlimited data plans. But what are their options, and is there any way to keep those unlimited plans? Ask Maggie offers some advice.
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After Brazil’s president took office, a law student urged the killing of people in the region of the country who voted for her. Now, a federal judge ruled a prison sentence is in order.
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The late Apple co-founder is still leaving his mark on the company’s future designs.
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New iPad mini intel suggests the tablet will hit the market in the third or fourth quarter as Apple has lined up suppliers for the LCD panel.
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More than just a Netflix and Pandora streamer, the Revue lets you browse the Web, run apps, access your personal media, and more.
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Yahoo claimed Facebook had fraudulently filed some of its patents, but Facebook hit back by proving Yahoo hadn’t even checked the records to see if it was right.
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Wall Street isn’t the only one benefiting from this big business story. Believe it or not there’s a silver lining for the dating scene. CNET’s Kara Tsuboi traveled to Silicon Valley, where some enterprising singles are on the lookout for all the new millionaires.
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The Facebook IPO will embolden the social network company to up its fight with Google for the online advertising market. Don’t expect Google to back down.
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Don’t you hate it when there’s nothing on TV? With today’s CNET Exclusive, boring channel surfing is a thing of the past.
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Molly Wood faces the hard reality that the days of unlimited bandwidth are over, but she’s not going to get taken to the cleaners by greedy providers. Here’s how to make pay-per-use a fair deal for everyone.
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The video streaming service overhauls its video player for browser-based watching, adding in a host of new features and options, including single TV episode and whole season previews.
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Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten says it is leading a $100 million round of funding in the social photo-sharing site. That could put its valuation at $1.5 billion.
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South Korean electronics giant loses $10 billion in market value — all because of a report in DigiTimes.
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Samsung is outshining Nokia and Apple in mobile phone sales, but the iPhone maker saw its global market share more than double, says Gartner.
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The company says that the new user interface will be known as the Optimus UI 3.0, and run on top of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
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The company has been buying larger-sized screens from its Asian suppliers, according to the latest tipoff received by the Wall Street Journal.
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If your PC is pulling TV duty, you’ll need a remote to make the most of it. Here’s a nice one for cheap.
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It will now offer as many as 484.4 million shares of common stock. More shares means the possibility of raising even more cash in this week’s IPO — potentially now up to $18.4 billion.
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The European Commission’s competition overseers “will remain vigilant” that Microsoft abides by an antitrust settlement involving Windows and browsers, but leave themselves plenty of wiggle room.
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Chairman of world’s largest carrier confirms negotiations in address to company’s shareholders but declines to disclose more.
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Data reveals thousands of devices running wild in the global Android jungle.
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Service will allow users to make calls, send texts, and surf the Web, but it will be limited and not cheap.
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The first wave of Windows RT products will be little more than a ripple.
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Today only, you can get this $30 utility free of charge. It can help smooth your move from Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7.
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Shared hosting providers can lose more than 50 percent of their capacity from parasitic drag generated by bot traffic, according to a new report.
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The Crown Prosecution Service says Brooks, along with her personal assistant and chauffeur, among others, are charged with “perverting the course of justice.”
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Lessons learned midway through 48 hours without a smartphone.
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The Finnish phone maker is accusing Apple of intentionally altering Siri to change its pick for the best phone from the Lumia 900 to the iPhone.
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The man behind a widely used technique for making Web pages interactive is now working for eBay’s online payment division.
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The company today filed an amended S-1 statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that prices its shares at between $34 and $38.
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The bold new design of the Google+ iPhone app has major implications for the future of Google’s social network, and the trajectory of the company.
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Dropbox and Google Drive may get the ink, but in enterprise cloud storage, no one may be more important than Box.com. CNET sat down with CEO Aaron Levie to talk about the future of the business.
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Facebook is about to pull off a record-setting IPO, but Mark Zuckerberg will then need to satisfy added pressures on the company to boost its bottom line.
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Benchmark results for the new Macs and a price drop on current Mac models from Best Buy could be tipoffs that the new 2012 lineup is on the way.
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Now that former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is out, Yahoo will try to sidestep a major severance payout by claiming he violated a code of ethics, according to AllThingsD.
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Buffalo announces the availability of its first 802.11ac, the next and much faster generation of Wi-Fi solution.
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The judiciary committee could start an antitrust investigation against Microsoft, after the company said IE 10 would be the only desktop browser in its upcoming tablet operating system.
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From financial guarantees to business support, companies are working hard to get developers to look beyond iOS and Android.
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Scott Thompson, who resigned as Yahoo CEO earlier today, reportedly told the board he’s been diagnosed with thyroid cancer — though not until his explanation for his inflated resume had apparently started to unravel.
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commentary In order to save Yahoo from total destruction, new CEO Ross Levinsohn needs to end the Facebook patent lawsuit as quickly as possible.
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Now that Facebook has conducted a small test of charging users to promote their status updates, isn’t it inevitable that, as a public company, Facebook will have to start dinging users in earnest?
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Windows 8 should available by November when Intel-based devices hit retail stores.
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Newly named to helm the troubled Internet pioneer, Levinsohn has a long history with Fox and other Big Media outlets, and most recently headed up Yahoo’s global advertising business.
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What would you destroy if you had the Spyder III Krypton handy? Just don’t pretend it’s a lightsaber.
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Which upcoming Windows device seems more appealing? One running on Windows 8 or one on Windows RT?
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Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, tells a business forum in Australia that, because he doesn’t have cable he can’t get broadband, as it’s a monopoly in his area. He also admitted that, once upon a time, he’d given up hope of finding a girl.
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TMZ, Hollywood’s nosy aunt, obtains pictures of Ashton Kutcher dressed in black turtleneck and baggy bright blue jeans. Is the image convincing?
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The company says it’s working on patches for Creative Suite 5.x versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash. Previously, customers would have had to pay to upgrade to CS6 to get the fixes.
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The latest rumor spilling into the iPhonosphere suggests that no decisions have been made about screen size or ratio, nor even about a metal back. But, yet again, October is the rumored month.
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Google is looking to buy social-products company Meebo for about $100 million, according to a report in All Things Digital.
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An elderly couple desperately tries to use their cell phone to call for help after their car becomes stuck in a ditch just 20 yards from their home. The calls aren’t connected. The lack of help leads to their deaths.
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MTV gave up on music ages ago, and only a handful of young bands make money selling records. Has music just become a ‘soundtrack’ to other activities?
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The next-generation aerial tanker, in a program that could eventually be worth $30 billion, will incorporate a digital flight deck that features, among other things, Boeing 787 Dreamliner electronic displays.
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This week, we said hello to the white PS Vita and goodbye to the Aqua Blue 3DS. And we tried to keep our emotional vacuum robot from getting upset.
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We review thousands of tech products. Every week, CNET Reviews Editor in Chief Lindsey Turrentine tells you which gear impresses us right now and why.
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In this edition of Ask Maggie, I explain how to store media on the expandable memory on a smartphone.
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A do-it-yourself kit for installing a handful of solar panels lets people dip their toes into grid-tied solar power.
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ATD’s Kara Swisher publishes a letter she says is from Heidrick & Struggles CEO Kevin Kelly to his staff. In it, Kelly calls reported allegations by Yahoo’s Scott Thompson “verifiably not true.”
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If you were at CTIA 2012, chances are you passed by Plum’s booth and wondered the same thing we did: Plum, who?
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Some games have the ability to make you lose your cool, with extremely difficult challenges and rules designed to test your patience.
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Tattoo artist implants four magnets into his own arm to hold iPod Nano in place. Warning: not for the squeamish.
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Security researcher envisions a top-level domain designed with security in mind for safer Web browsing.
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An apparent information window that appears at boot only states “keyApplicationTitle,” “keyWarningOptimalInfo,” and “keyOKButton.”
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Judge Andrea Voss of the Mannheim Regional Court has decided to stay a decision, which could push the ruling back months, according to one report.
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Mozilla could bring Firefox to Windows Metro, but without access to system services that IE10 gets, it would be hobbled, and Mozilla would be shut out of a new PC segment.
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The company has reportedly been working on its own Maps service for the next version of its iOS platform, meaning it might kick Google Maps off the operating system.
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A Morgan Stanley analyst offers reassuring words: Carriers would face too many obstacles to trimming those subsidies to Apple that keep prices down.
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This week, we have an impressive little $299 pocket camcorder that records high-quality video and audio.
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commentary The conversation about getting women into the tech industry is far from over, and unfortunately, vicious sexism is still alive and well. Don’t get complacent, folks. It’s still bad out there.
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This starter Android smartphone should make its way to the U.S. in a few months.
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Starting next week, people won’t be able to ship a whole host of electronics overseas because items like the iPad, Kindle, laptops, and smartphones use possibly combustible lithium ion batteries.
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Digitimes claims Amazon will probably ship color-screen e-readers in the second half of this year. Make of that what you will.
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Just days before going public, chatter abounds about whether the social network will be able to get the big bucks. Now sources say the IPO is “already oversubscribed.”
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According to reports, the Galaxy Note update is being downloaded in the Netherlands and Germany, though Samsung hasn’t said where it’ll be available just yet.
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The iPhone maker and its supplier will each kick in money in an effort to alleviate conditions for Foxconn’s Chinese employees.
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The company says that its revenue was down 9.6 percent during the fiscal year ended March 31, and its losses slipped to $5.55 billion on the year.
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Startup iCache’s answer to mobile payments is an iPhone cover has a fingerprint scanner, e-ink display, and smart card able to turn into your credit or debit card.
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When it comes to strutting their stuff in public, technology CEOs are far from a hoodie-loving crowd of look-alikes.
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Micron may become a major supplier of memory chips to Apple if it completes the purchase of Japan-based Elpida, the third-largest memory chip manufacturer.
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Mozilla says only a crippled version of Firefox could run on Windows for ARM chips, effectively restricting user choice to IE10, and now the maker of Chrome says it’s worried, too.
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The company was helped by an aggressive push of its monthly 4G plan, and saw its profits rise slightly.
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When disaster strikes, Verizon Wireless can deploy a mobile cell site to boost network coverage in the affected area.
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Or, how Facebook makes money and advances its own interest by helping Apple sell apps on its own store. It’s a surprisingly clever move.
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A new image of a Googler spinning his son while wearing a future-tech prototype has excited users who now have better insight into its potential.
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Online crooks are moving beyond just Facebook and Twitter to try to trick users into downloading malicious payloads.
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The company posted revenue during the first quarter of $529.4 million. Its net income hit $21.1 million, jumping 349 percent over last year.
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Clearwire CEO Erik Prusch believes that the company’s variant of LTE will allow you to effortlessly roam around the world.
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A human-computer interface conference explores novel gestures for operating computers — and placing a smartphone sensor called ShoeSense in shoes.
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IBM research scientist Dimitri Kanevsky develops technologies that help people with hearing loss to communicate. On Monday, he was honored at a White House ceremony.
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After government criticism and a temporary shutdown of Web comments, China’s biggest microblogging site plans to introduce a “user contract” that could impede the free flow of information.
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Powerful flagship phones such as Samsung’s Galaxy S III to new mid-range, budget, and pre-paid models get the CTIA ball rolling
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Ultrabooks are already priced fairly aggressively against the MacBook Air at some retailers.
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Online-payment company and Japanese telecom and Internet firm announce joint venture that will initially bring Square competitor ‘PayPal Here’ to the Asian country.
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