Worry not, Amazon customers! The Dot will return. Amazon’s Echo Dot device sold out earlier this month, sparking rumors that the product had been discontinued. I checked with Amazon, which quickly confirmed that news of the Dot’s demise were greatly exaggerated. The $90 Dot, a hockey-puck shaped speaker that houses Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, was …

Now playing: Watch this: Changed your mind on Windows 10? Here’s how you can roll… 1:39 Updated, July 28, 2016: Updated with the latest information. So we think Windows 10 is great. If you’re still in doubt, though, keep in mind that you have only a few more days to upgrade to it for free. After that, it’s going to …

Long before movies could be digitally downloaded, kiddies, VHS rental stores were the place to go. Movie fans would browse store shelves looking for the perfect action, horror, comedy or romance flick to take home for the weekend, which is usually as long as the stores would allow the movies to be rented. Related stories ‘It’s a blurry mess!’ — …

Apple’s long-rumored streaming TV service failed to materialize due to its brash negotiating tactics, according to The Wall Street Journal. Potential deals between the tech giant and major networks including CBS, Disney and Fox went south because Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of software and services, came across as arrogant during negotiations, the newspaper reported Thursday. Many thought the …

As smartphone shipments sputter and stall, an upstart is shooting forward from the back of the pack. China’s Oppo saw shipments of its phones more than double — the precise gain: 137 percent — in the second quarter of 2016, compared with the same period a year earlier. That was good enough to put Oppo into fourth place, according to …

Apple’s latest numbers are in — and while the company was quick to celebrate selling a billion iPhones, a closer look reveals a troubling trend for one of the company’s most important markets: China. Sales in the Greater China region (the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong) plummeted 33 percent year over year to $8.8 billion for the quarter that ended …

NBN is today slotting in another piece of the nation’s broadband puzzle with the launch of the first commercial services using the former Telstra HFC network. While NBN officially switched on HFC services at the end of last month in Queensland, using the former Optus network, it says the repurposed Telstra network will make up the “vast majority” of HFC …

By the time Samsung officially unwraps the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on Tuesday, August 2, there may be no more secrets to tell. The company has already begun a teaser campaign for the Note 7 on Korean TV that strongly hinted that the new phone is water-resistant, like the other members of 2016’s Galaxy S7 family. Then, TalkAndroid.com spilled on …

Hey, if anyone knows how to mess things up big time, it’s Dr. Seuss’ legendary Cat in the Hat. The fearless feline announced his candidacy for president this week outside the author’s childhood home in Springfield, Massachusetts, with impish assistants Thing 1 and Thing 2 at his side. Watch out if he wins, America. The cat’s namesake book shows him …

CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. It was a little over a year ago that I first shared this deal. I liked the looks of the product, the capabilities …

Oracle, already one of the most acquisitive companies in the tech industry, said Thursday it’s buying cloud-app pioneer NetSuite for about $9.3 billion in cash. That will give Oracle an inroad to smaller customers wanting a single system to handle finance, HR, e-commerce and other business management tasks. Oracle has been an aggressive buyer since 2005, when it bought PeopleSoft …

Now playing: Watch this: Major Windows 10 update coming August 2 1:38 After Friday, Windows 10 is going to cost over a hundred dollars*. So you only have one more day** to decide whether you’re getting it for free. Should you upgrade? Personally, I’m a huge fan of Windows 10. I’ve been using it non-stop on all my computers for …

It’s been a long time coming, but Virgin America is finally coming out with a smartphone app. The app, set to launch later this summer, enables you to book flights, check alerts and access mobile boarding passes. It can also soundtrack your trip with curated Spotify playlists designed to boost your mood while you travel. The app was designed by …

You wouldn’t think something as mundane as a word processor could inspire a cult following, but that’s pretty much the story of Literature & Latte’s Scrivener — a tool built with long documents (novels, screenplays, research papers, etc.) in mind. For a long time, it was strictly a desktop program, with versions available for Windows and Mac. But now Scrivener …

Now playing: Watch this: Motorola’s ambitious Moto Z and Z Force put you in control 1:44 Now that Motorola’s newest flagship phones, the Moto Z and Moto Z Force, are available today at Verizon, Motorola is releasing a developers kit so that developers can design and create more modular accessories for the handsets. Known as Moto Mods, these accessories stick …