Jason Cipriani/CNET The Google Play Store app is frequently updated in the background, without you …

Samsung’s Gear 2 smartwatch. Sarah Tew/CNET Samsung and Pebble are dominating the US smartwatch market. Samsung has carved out a hefty 78 percent of the $96 million in smartwatch sales seen in the US since October, with Pebble accounting for around 18 percent, NPD said Wednesday. The market researcher didn’t specify who owns the remaining 96 percent, but Sony and …

Sarah Tew With Google’s Chromecast device finally available in Australia, the next step has been to ensure that there are some local services worth using on it. In the US there are the usual suspects of Netflix, HBO Go, Hulu, and so forth, but in Australia we’ve mostly been running on promises. Foxtel’s Presto movie service was looking at a …