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. 4 lines, 40GB, $120 per month. Yes, please. T-Mobile Last February, I wrote about why I ditched T-Mobile and switched to Cricket Wireless. Today I’m going back. Make …

Twitter has named former Google business chief Omid Kordestani as the social network’s new chairman. James Martin/CNET It didn’t take long for Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to find someone to replace him as chairman. The social network named Omid Kordestani, Google’s former chief business officer, as its new executive chairman, Dorsey announced in a series of tweets Wednesday. Kordestani’s responsibilities …

SAN FRANCISCO — Yves Behar, one of the most famous industrial designers of the past two decades, has a lot to say not just about the way products should look, but what problems they should solve. Since beginning design house Fuseproject in 1999, Behar has worked with companies such as Apple, General Electric, Herman Miller, Movado, Prada and Samsung. He …

More than 50 major tech companies have helped put together California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ online tool for victims of revenge porn. California State Department of Justice California is ramping up its war on revenge porn by giving victims new tools for fighting back. State Attorney General Kamala Harris said Wednesday that her office has partnered with tech companies and …

The Electric Jukebox streamer plugs into your TV’s HDMI port. Andrew Hoyle/CNET LONDON — How can you persuade older people to ditch their hi-fi and get hooked on streaming music? A new service from a UK startup thinks the answer is to plug into their TVs. The Electric Jukebox is a music-streaming service designed for people in the US or …

CNET Your phone number isn’t just for your phone anymore. AT&T will soon let customers apply their primary number to additional devices, including tablets and watches. Called NumberSync, the feature — which will launch on its first device in the holiday season — uses AT&T’s network to send and receive phone calls and text messages to multiple devices. The feature …

Enlarge ImageThe Axon Pro from ZTE. Josh Miller/CNET Don’t call phone-maker ZTE behind the times. The Chinese handset maker on Wednesday unveiled a lease-to-own payment plan for customers who want to spread the cost of buying an unlocked ZTE phone or other mobile device over several months. The payment plan, which extends to devices such as the well-rated Axon Pro …

Weak demand for the Galaxy S6 lineup may trigger a drop in Samsung’s smartphone shipments this year. Josh P. Miller This could be a real downer of a year for Samsung, which looks headed for a first-ever drop in its annual smartphone shipments. Market researcher TrendForce said Wednesday that it expects shipments of smartphones from the South Korean electronics giant …

Some of our Windows 10 tips involve tweaking the Registry (for example, this tip on how to get rid of default cloud service icons in File Explorer) or running a few lines of code in the Command Prompt or the Windows PowerShell. If you’re beyond basic Windows 10 customization — and comfortable working in the Registry or the Command Prompt …

Netflix plans to expand globally to 200 countries by the end of next year. Joan E. Solsman/CNET Subscribers continue to stream into Netflix’s online-video service, just not as many in the US. Netflix is a hit with consumers around the world, thanks to its strategy of expanding to new countries with its growing menu of popular original content for a …

Last year’s Droid Turbo smartphone for Verizon. CNET Verizon Wireless’ Droid smartphone franchise will soon get its moment in the spotlight. The New Jersey-based carrier sent out invitations to a media event in Manhattan on October 27, teasing multiple Droid smartphones. “Everything you expect from a phone will change,” the company said. The Droid phones are just the latest flagship …

It was just a few months ago that I reviewed a complete Klipsch Reference Premiere 5.1 home-theater system , but I also wanted to spend some quality time with the smallest Klipsch Reference Premiere speaker, the RP-150M monitor. Through the end of this month, the RP-150M is selling for $335 per pair with free shipping in the US, the regular …

Enlarge Image Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET It’s easy to call or text someone from your Apple Watch if you have that person already saved in your contacts. Or they called recently. Strangely, Apple didn’t outfit its Watch with a number pad to dial a number manually, leaving such seemingly basic functionality to a 14-year-old developer from Holland who created the …

Enlarge ImageAmazon Destinations sunsets. Amazon Amazon quietly closed its Amazon Destinations site Tuesday, offering little explanation for the move just six months after the service launched. “We have learned a lot and have decided to discontinue Amazon Destinations,” a company spokesperson said in a statement. Amazon Destinations was introduced in April as a way for people to plan and reserve …

DxO Labs rated the new iPhone 6S camera the same as last year’s iPhones while new Android-powered devices top the list. DxOMark The camera in Apple’s new iPhone 6S ranked 10th place in the DxOMark Mobile test, merely matching the photo and video quality of last year’s iPhones. The DxO Labs tests, which measure factors including exposure, color, autofocus performance, …