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. Someday we’ll all look back on the two-year phone contract and laugh. Sure, we were subsidizing the sky-high price of the phone itself, but we were also severely …

Mozilla will try to win over iPhone and iPad users with its first mobile browser for iOS. Mozilla Firefox is taking its next big step at trying to carve out a chunk of the iOS market. The first public preview of the Mozilla browser for iPhones and iPads has started rolling out to users in New Zealand, the company announced …

It’s a moment the Apple faithful have been waiting for. Apple is expected Wednesday to unveil the next generation of its streaming-media box, the Apple TV. The device has been idling for three years while the technology giant doted on products like the iPhone and Apple Watch. As a result, Apple will have a bevy of new features to reveal, …

Enlarge Image Tile Congratulations to Jared L. of West Fargo, North Dakota, for winning an Onanoff Sound Cover iPad case last week and to Richard R. of Midland, Pennsylvania, for winning a pack of MiPow Playbulb flameless candles the week before that. Tend to lose things? Good thing you found this week’s giveaway. We’ve got a pack of eight little …

Enlarge ImagePanasonic’s first OLED TV on show at the IFA electronics conference in Berlin. Luke Westaway/CNET OLED TVs will get cheaper, Panasonic’s TV boss says, predicting that the self-illuminating television tech will be within reach of average consumers in a few years’ time. “Probably within two or three years,” said Masahiro Shinada, director of Panasonic’s TV business division, speaking to …

Sarah Tew/CNET The new iPhone is coming. Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus at a special event on September 9 at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Just like in years past, Apple will be offering a live stream of the event for Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and Mac users. You can …

Apple’s iPhone remains ahead of Samsung phones in market share, at least in the US. Josh Miller/CNET Apple continues to outshine its arch rival Samsung in the US smartphone market. For the three months ended July, Apple remained in first place in the US with a smartphone market share of 44.2 percent, up from 43.1 percent for the prior three …

Enlarge ImageBlackBerry has made another acquisition to strengthen its enterprise business under the helm of CEO John Chen. Nate Ralph/CNET BlackBerry is making a new acquisition that could help it win over more business customers. On Friday, BlackBerry announced that it has agreed to purchase Good Technology for $425 million in cash. Based in California, Good Technology offers secure email, …

Enlarge ImageThe Gear S2 could be the linchpin for all your connected devices. Shara Tibken/CNET BERLIN — Samsung is gunning for your wrist and your home — and those aren’t mutually exclusive. The South Korean consumer electronics giant on Thursday showed off the Gear S2, its seventh smartwatch in two years but first since late 2014. Earlier that day, it …

Enlarge ImageSony’s Xperia Z5 smartphones. César Salza Sony’s high-end Xperia Z5 range has been catching plenty of attention at the big IFA tech show in Berlin, but it looks like the company won’t be entirely about premium smartphones for long. According to the Economic Times, the Japanese electronics giant hopes to start manufacturing handsets in India, the country that’s pegged …

Facebook’s got a new tool in its ever-expanding efforts to make advertisers more relevant to its users. The Menlo Park, California-based social network is offering marketers access to a new testing technology to help them figure out which ads have the most success and why. The tools help an advertiser track the different ads it creates during a campaign and …

Skype has gotten a face-lift for the iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Skype Skype has redesigned its iOS and Android apps to offer easier navigation and a few enhancements. Released on Thursday for Apple’s iPhone and iPad and devices running Google’s Android software, Skype version 6.0 looks and feels a bit different from the old version. The latest edition sports …

SK Telecom As Samsung, Apple and a few other key players duke it out on the premium smartphone battlefield, the war for supremacy in the rapidly growing budget and midrange markets is becoming increasingly intense. And now there’s one more contender — South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, SK Telecom. The company will release the Luna, its first handset, on Friday. …

Messaging app WhatsApp keeps growing more popular with users each month. The Facebook-owned app, which is used by people around the world to send texts without paying carrier fees, now has more than 900 million monthly active users, according to a Facebook post by Jan Koum, the CEO of WhatsApp. The milestone represents an increase of 100 million users since …

This Apple Macbook Pro could one day be powered by a fuel cell system. CNET One of the most oft complaints about electronics is battery life. Digital cameras, smartphones and laptops can all run out of power when you’re least prepared. It appears Apple is searching for a way to fix this problem. The tech giant filed a patent application, …