When you’re logged into the same iCloud account from multiple Apple devices, iCloud will sync your Safari browsing history across the devices. Sometimes, however, your devices can get out of sync and waiting around for iCloud to catch up can be frustrating. With little effort you can manually force iCloud to sync your Safari history …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. This time, what happens in Vegas is leaving Vegas, and right away. Since you can’t make it to CES 2016 in person, we’re bringing the show to you in virtual reality. CNET host …

Apple has said it’s looking at ways to give users the option of removing preinstalled apps from iOS devices. Although, the company has given no timetable or clear indication if such capabilities will ever manifest in a future version of iOS. In the meantime, there are ways to get around the limitation. Instead of creating a folder for all of …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Lenovo wants to help take Google’s Project Tango, a program to add spatial and location aware technology into mobile devices, to the mainstream. The Chinese consumer electronics maker said on Thursday at a …

Just how big can Facebook’s Messenger app get? Try 800 million monthly active users and counting. The social-networking giant said Thursday its mobile messaging app crossed that mark near year’s end. That means the app added 100 million new users worldwide since June. Messenger was the quickest growing app in the US in 2015 with a 31 percent increase in …

Sluggish demand for premium smartphones during the holiday shopping season appears to be weighing on Samsung’s bottom line. The South Korean electronics giant said Thursday it expects to record a fourth-quarter operating profit of 6.1 trillion won ($5.1 billion). While that’s up 15 percent from the year-ago period, it falls short of analysts’ average estimates of 6.6 billion won, according …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. CES is full of wild sights, but you don’t often see US marshals raid a display booth. On Thursday, gadget lovers were treated to the sight of federal law enforcement officials packing up …

Customers and video providers love T-Mobile’s Binge On service, according to the carrier’s chief executive. Net neutrality advocates? Not so much. The conflict could put the Federal Communications Commission, which is already looking into the unlimited video streaming service, in a pickle. Many consumers like the program, but it may violate the agency’s rules for keeping the Internet free and …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. You don’t have to buy an Apple iPhone 6S or Samsung Galaxy Note 5 to get a decent phone anymore. ZTE, Alcatel OneTouch and Huawei, a trio of Chinese companies you probably never …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. At the start of this year’s CES, Oculus announced pricing and preorders for the much awaited Rift VR headset. As someone who has covered Oculus from the beginning, I was excited to be …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Taxi lines are miles long, traffic is terrible, and the Las Vegas Convention Center is bursting at the seams with 170,000 people from all over the world. Toss in an avalanche of gadgets …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. The storied Motorola name will be wiped off phones this year. Lenovo, which bought Motorola Mobility from Google in 2014, is unifying its two phone businesses under the Lenovo name. It’s going to …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. It’s only the first official day of CES, but it already feels like the show has been going for a week. That’s because the biggest news day of CES, also known as Press …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. This will be an all-Android year for BlackBerry’s newest phones. The Waterloo, Ontario-based company plans to release one new product, and potentially a second phone, in 2016. Both will run on Google’s mobile …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. On show at CES 2016, the Samsung-backed TipTalk is a clever new “smart strap” for traditional watches, adding fitness tracking, notifications and calling features to any watch. Its greatest trick? Letting you take …