Google Google on Tuesday said it is bringing an app called Photo Sphere — previously only available on the company’s Android operating system — to Apple’s iOS, which powers iPhones and iPads. The app lets users take a 360-degree photo of a certain place, stitching it all together to create one image where you can …

Google’s Android mobile operating system, running on a Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone James Martin/CNET Google may soon face a new probe by European antitrust regulators over business practices related to Android, the most popular mobile operating system in the world. The European Commission is prepping a new investigation that includes sending out questionnaires to companies about their dealings with Google …

Apple’s Find my iPhone James Martin/CNET Lawmakers have been clamoring for antitheft software to become standard and enabled on all smartphones, in an attempt to curb a rising tide of mobile device thefts over the last few years. But a researcher from Creighton University’s Heider College of Business has been looking into another benefit to the software. In a study …

Spencer Platt/Getty Images Google is one of the many companies vying to transform New York City’s increasingly anachronistic phone booths into Wi-Fi hot spots. The search giant was present at an informational meeting held in May to discuss the project. Other big-name attendees include Samsung, Time Warner Cable, Cisco, and Verizon. Bloomberg reported news of the meeting attendees late last …

CNET Tech giants have been in the crosshairs of regulators both in the United States and overseas for their consumer protection practices. On Friday, the European Commission released a statement complimenting Google and chastising Apple in their efforts to curb in-app purchases made by children without parents’ permission. Google has decided to comply with the EC’s requests by not using …

CNET SAN FRANCISCO — It seems like everyone’s got an opinion on Google Glass, the search giant’s ambitious connected headset that mounts a computer in front of a user’s eyes. But on Tuesday, we heard from someone with special credentials — the device’s creator said Glass is only one answer to the future of computing. People are increasingly moving away …

Now playing: Watch this: Amazon introduces the Fire Phone, its first smartphone 2:48 Amazon is leveraging its sprawling array of apps, entertainment, and storage services to entice customers to its newly announced Fire Phone. CEO Jeff Bezos said that Fire Phone owners would be granted unlimited photo storage through Amazon’s cloud service. The new phone will also wrap up other …

Samsung unveiled tablets with high-end displays during an event in New York. Sarah Tew/CNET For Samsung’s new tablets, image is everything. The Korean electronics giant on Thursday took the wraps off its two new Galaxy Tab S tablets , both with high-end displays capable of color-rich pictures. The company introduced the devices — available with 8.4-inch and 10.5-inch displays — …

Yahoo mobile chief Adam Cahan says the company is “rounding the corner” on its mobile and monetization efforts. Ethan Miller, Getty Images When Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer took Adam Cahan aside almost two years ago and asked him to start a new mobile division, he wasn’t sure it was the right idea. It’s not that he disagreed with Mayer’s plan …

Adam Cahan, Yahoo’s SVP of mobile and emerging products, thinks Yahoo’s mobile efforts are on the right track. Brian Ach/Getty Images SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Adam Cahan was handpicked by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to lead the effort to transform the Internet portal into a mobile-first company. Nineteen months into that mission, Cahan, who joined Yahoo when it bought his “second …