Apple’s China retail stores are still filled with consumers looking to buy iPhones, CEO Tim Cook says. Apple The worldwide smartphone market will grow in the coming years, but new research suggests its meteoric rise over the past several years will start to slow over sluggishness in China. Smartphone shipments will rise 10.4 percent in …

TuneIn’s $8/month subscription removes ads from regular radio and adds baseball games and audiobooks. TuneIn TuneIn, the site best known for streaming thousands of radio stations online, is angling to become the one-stop shop for everything you feed into your ears. The company on Tuesday added an $8-a-month subscription that unlocks a variety of new perks: It removes the audio …

Enlarge Image Jason Cipriani/CNET Last week Parallels released an update to its program that gives Mac users the ability to run Windows apps alongside OS X apps. The update added support for Windows 10 and Apple’s upcoming release of OS X El Capitan. With the addition of Windows 10 support, Parallels also makes it possible to use Microsoft’s personal assistant …

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. Enlarge ImageYep, it’s an antenna. Mohu Ah, the good old days, when candy bars were a quarter and TV was free. Now I have to pay $1.29 for my Twix fix? Come on! …

Slightech Bluetooth trackers are pretty common these days, with various devices cropping up to help you locate phones, keys, bags and even umbrellas . These tags tend to be pretty simple: just stick them on your device and then use a phone app to work out where you last left the blasted thing. But Mynt, which is currently at the …

Enlarge ImageWileyfox is a new mobile phone brand powered by Cyanogen. Luke Westaway/CNET LONDON — Stand by for a new name in the mobile market: Wileyfox is a whole new smartphone brand launching here today, and at the core is an Android rival called Cyanogen. Cyanogen is an operating system based on Google’s Android, adding different features to give you …

Apple Apple has updated its professional-level music creation and editing suite, Logic Pro X , for the second time this year. The new 10.2 version comes just eight months after version 10.1, and like the previous update, Logic Pro X 10.2 is available for free to current owners of Logic Pro X (the entire software package costs $199). The highlight …

Google Keep on Android Photo by Nicole Cozma/CNET If you write a lot of notes in Google Keep, you may find yourself needing to convert some of them to actual documents. For instance, if you take down a list of things to remember when you’re reviewing a restaurant you’ve recently visited, you’ll want to work it into a more readable …

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. Let’s get the week started off right, shall we? With a multi-deal Monday! A low-price GoPro alternative GoPro is the Apple of action cams: great hardware, but painfully expensive. In the past I’ve …

Editors’ note, August 24, 2015: This post was originally published on March 26, 2011, and has been updated to include new information. Having multiple computers can be great when one of them is a laptop for mobile computing and another stays at home for the family. Fortunately, Google Chrome lets you sync your bookmarks and extensions so you don’t have …

The new school year is just around the corner. Sarah Tew/CNET Time to crack open those books, sharpen some pencils, and buckle down for another academic year. We’re feeling the school year begin in our house, where soon, long nights of football practice will give way to homework time, often with the aid of some useful apps. I’ve cut through …

While Windows 10 has a nice little multi-monitor taskbar setup and support for multiple virtual desktops, it’s not quite as good at letting you choose separate, distinct wallpapers for each of your monitors. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be done (without third-party software); it can, Microsoft just isn’t very straightforward about it. Here’s how to set different wallpapers for …

Enlarge ImagePet sounds without the fluff. Amanda Kooser/CNET You might feel the desire to cuddle up to a kitty, set your ear against it and enjoy the calming purr sounds, but that doesn’t mean your cat is willing to accommodate. Thank goodness for technology. A website has replaced the need to please your cat in exchange for a fleeting moment …

The LG G Pad II 10.1 is ready for IFA in Berlin in September. LG LG will show off a new tablet at the IFA trade show in Berlin in early September. LG, the Korea-based conglomerate that makes everything from refrigerators to smartphones, on Monday announced the new G Pad II 10.1. The Android-based tablet will boast a 10.1-inch screen, …

Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET In Windows 10, everything looks just a little bit different — including the icons and pop-ups from the system tray. There’s a new calendar, a new “Action Center,” and a new volume mixer — one that slides horizontally instead of vertically. If you find yourself missing the old vertical volume mixer from Windows 8.1 and earlier, I …