The LG Kizon is a wearable that can track your kids. Jason Jenkins/CNET LG’s child-tracking wearable is expanding beyond its South Korean birthplace, now giving European parents the chance to remotely track their childrens’ movements. The Kizon is a simple, colourful strap that you attach to your child’s wrist. Inside the gadget there’s a 2G …

Raspberry Pi Foundation Raspberry Pi, the programable microcomputer, has become even more micro. A newly unveiled board adds a few tempting hardware tweaks, as well as reducing the overall size of the Pi. Raspberry Pi represents an effort to strip a computer down to its most basic elements, providing only a simple, undecorated circuit board that can be hooked up …

EE EE’s bid to take control of your TV watching is now officially on sale, with the alliterative operator’s set-top box available to buy in EE shops. The network’s family-centric EE TV box — which has four HD tuners and can beam up to four programmes at once to separate devices — is free if you’re a new or existing …

The government wants to improve phone signal in hard-to-reach areas, but networks aren’t impressed. Shutterstock The UK’s biggest operators have railed against proposed government plans to battle “notspots” — parts of the country that suffer from poor or non-existent signal. Culture secretary Sajid Javid says that he’s failed to find a solution having held talks with the UK’s biggest operators, …

Sarah Tew Samsung’s newest wearable gadget goes on sale in the UK this Friday — but only those with deep pockets need apply. The Gear S , which features a curved, 2-inch screen, was unveiled earlier this year. Its superpower is that, unlike other smartwatches, it doesn’t need to pair with a phone, but can make and receive calls all …

YouView UK TV service YouView has welcomed aboard Netflix, in a move that makes the Internet-connected set-top box a more tempting alternative compared to Sky. YouView, which launched in the summer of 2012 after many years of delays and hold-ups, melds on-demand and upcoming programmes in its listings, letting customers scroll backwards through the TV guide to find shows they …

Vodafone Vodafone has added another online service to its stable of 4G sign-up rewards — Sky’s Now TV on-demand service. Locking yourself into certain Vodafone 4G contracts will get you access to a Now TV Entertainment Pass, which usually costs £7 per month and opens the door to channels including Sky Atlantic, Fox, Disney Channel, Comedy Central and MTV, as …

EE Capital-dwelling customers on EE are getting a 4G speed boost, as the UK operator turns on LTE-Advanced network tech on the second anniversary of its 4G service going live. 4G mobile data has existed in other countries like the US for several years now, but in the UK it launched two years ago today. EE was the first UK …

Now playing: Watch this: Netbooks: What were we thinking? 4:00 Netbooks — what were we thinking? That’s what the latest episode of CNET’s Adventures in Tech hopes to uncover. Hit play on the video above now. In today’s world of glossy iPads and super-powered smartphones, it’s hard to believe we were ever seduced by the tiny, clunky, low-powered computers that …

O2 and Three have told CNET they’re not currently participating in Apple’s new Apple SIM plan. Apple Apple SIM, the SIM-card that comes pre-installed in Apple’s new tablets and will let owners switch between carriers at will, is currently only supported by one UK network, with some suggesting that the own-brand SIM is a big potential threat to the operator …