The LG G Watch, powered by Google’s Android Wear operating system, isn’t a locked-down repository for personal data. Josh Miller/CNET Want to keep your private data private? Maybe you should postpone that smartwatch purchase. Researchers at the University of New Haven have shown that they can extract personal information from the LG G Watch and …
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The Airboard is a super-small development device for people wanting to get started with Sigfox networking. It’s geared for the hobbyist set who might want just a single device. Stephen Shankland/CNET Sigfox, a French company that’s developed a network tailored for electronic sensors and a host of other devices, will see its network arrive in Denmark next year through a …
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Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal Mozilla Mozilla, best known for its Firefox browser and operating system, has lost the man responsible for the core technologies of both products. Chief Technology Officer Andreas Gal has left Mozilla after nearly seven years to launch a startup that hopes to provide the computing brains for the Internet of Things — a broad idea …
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Mozilla’s upstart Firefox OS mobile operating system badly needs app support. And it may have found its answer in a 20-year-old programming language. Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal Mozilla The lack of apps are a common problem for operating systems challenging the two dominant mobile platforms, Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. Without crucial software like WhatsApp for text messaging, customers steer …
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Google planned to shut down Panoramio, a site for sharing geotagged photos, but has given it a reprieve. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET Google is no longer a small, nimble company able to change rapidly, but apparently the wrath of 10,000 people can be enough to shift the Internet behemoth’s direction. It took eight months of pressure, but Google this week …
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Adobe’s Fotolia site sells royalty-free photos, video and illustrations created by thousands of contributors. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET Three years into its transformation into a subscription-funded company, Adobe Systems is still refining the technology you get for those monthly payments — and we want to know what you think of its latest steps through a new survey. The most significant …
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Google Photos offers useful but basic editing tools, a change from the more sophisticated options it previously offered to browser-based photo adjustments. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET As Google launched its new photo service last week, it also dropped a sophisticated tool that had significantly advanced online photo-editing technology. Google debuted the earlier online photo-editing tool in 2013 as part of …
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Google’s Inbox looks to make email more efficient by, for example, bundling messages about a specific trip into a convenient-to-access package. Google Google wants more people to rethink their email software, so it’s opening its Inbox email service to anyone. The software, previously available only if Google fulfilled your request to use it, is a significantly different way of handling …
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Mozilla CEO Chris Beard speaks at Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona. Stephen Shankland/CNET Mozilla has revamped its Firefox OS mobile software project after concluding that ultra-affordable $25 handsets aren’t enough to take on the biggest powers of the smartphone world, CNET has learned. The nonprofit organization rose to prominence with the success of its Firefox Web browser a decade …
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Yandex.Browser puts tabs on the bottom to give as much attention as possible to the Web app or website you’re viewing. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET You wouldn’t call it a war, but we may be in the middle of a skirmish that pits an upstart Russian browser maker against the mighty Google. That company is Yandex, which on Thursday released …
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