Now playing: Watch this: Galaxy Note 8? Yes, Samsung is planning on it 1:18 So long, Note 7. Long live the Note 8! Sarah Tew/CNET Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 is dead and buried, but the Note brand will live to see another phone launch. The company has no plans to scrap the beleaguered Note moniker …

Bought a smartwatch recently? How very 2015 of you. The number of smartwatches shipped over the most recent three months has declined 52 percent compared with the same July-to-September period last year, according to a report by IDC wearables analysts. Apple remains the leading smartwatch maker, but it has also seen fewer people interested in its tech-enabled timepiece this year …

Samsung apparently has only itself to blame. The dangerous batteries used in its ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 devices were tested by the company in-house, Samsung confirmed Monday. “Samsung has been testing Galaxy devices including the Galaxy Note7 for CTIA certification aligning with mobile carriers’ requirements in North America through [a] CTIA certified internal testing lab since February 2009,” the company …

Twitter is stepping up its live-streaming game, offering brands and media organizations a more sophisticated tool for producing and sharing high-quality video. Periscope Producer goes beyond video shot with a smartphone and lets content companies broadcast footage from professional cameras and streaming software, Twitter said in a blog post Thursday. And they can do it without losing the audience-interaction perks …

Samsung is preparing to take a financial hit following the Galaxy Note 7 debacle. The company on Wednesday slashed its estimated operating profit by a third, predicting that it would make $2.3 billion less in the three months between July and September than it originally forecast. The company published a new third-quarter estimate of $4.6 billion a day after it …

Now playing: Watch this: Death of Samsung’s Note 7 leaves unanswered questions 2:15 The overheating problem is related to the Galaxy Note 7 battery, which can be seen in iFixit’s teardown of the phone. iFixit The Galaxy Note 7 is no more. Samsung confirmed Tuesday that it will permanently cease production of the problematic devices after a botched attempt to …

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 was, at launch, a device of great promise. With a big AMOLED screen, excellent camera, useful tools for its stylus and a big battery that lasted for hours, it seemed like a lust-worthy object that would surely result in another big sales success for Samsung. Then the batteries started to catch on fire. Samsung had no …

If you’re not already using Facebook regularly in the office, you might soon find your boss insisting upon it. Facebook officially launched Workplace, a work-based collaboration and chatroom platform, on Monday at an event in London. Workplace by Facebook is designed solely for the kind of interactions you might have with your colleagues, as well as those that take place …

Google’s two brand new, own-brand phones are coming to the UK and are available for preorder online immediately. The smaller of the two devices, the Pixel, will start at £599 for the 32GB model, rising to £699 for the 128GB model. The Pixel XL is a pricier beast, starting at £719 for the 32GB model, going up to £819 for …

Facebook has a tiny, speedy new messaging app designed for owners of older Android phones. Facebook Messenger Lite, announced Monday, takes up a much smaller amount of a phone’s storage — just 10 megabytes — than the full-fat app that most users have installed on their phones, and it has been pared back so that it runs peppily over slower-than-average …