Google is reportedly pitching a new version of Glass aimed at the workplace. Sarah Tew/CNET Google Glass has officially been on hiatus since January, as the company tries to find new ways to get consumers hooked on the search giant’s smart eyewear. In the meantime, the company is courting a market more likely to respond …

Android for Work will be running on the Silent Circle Blackphone 2 this fall. Silent Circle Silent Circle, a small handset maker that builds devices aimed at maximizing privacy, has signed on with Google’s new business-focused Android tool. Silent Circle’s Blackphone 2 smartphone will support Android for Work, the company announced on Thursday. The feature will allow Blackphone 2 owners …

Those Angry Birds have returned to crush the pigs in a sequel to the original. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Yes, those Angry Birds are back again but this time in a sequel to the original game. Available for iOS and Android, Angry Birds 2 tries to outdo the original with new graphics, multi-stage levels, boss pigs and even greater destruction, …

Samsung scored a big victory against Smartflash, pushing down the road their pending patent battle. CNET Samsung has won an important victory against patent holder Smartflash that may ultimately save the company hundreds of millions of dollars. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on Thursday that the lawsuit Smartflash has filed against Samsung alleging patent infringement …

Microsoft’s mobile phone market share took a dive last quarter. CNET Microsoft has lost its spot as the world’s third-largest mobile phone vendor to a rival from China, according to a new report by market researcher Strategy Analytics. During the second quarter, Microsoft’s share of the global mobile phone market sunk to 6.4 percent from 11.9 percent for the same …

Is the future of radio a shift from local broadcast to an online global audience? iStock With its new 24-hour global Beats 1 radio station streaming music and chat to Apple devices worldwide, Apple has launched the most high-profile Internet radio station ever. Is this the beginning of the end for broadcast radio? We spoke to UK-based radio station and …

Nicole Cozma/CNET If you follow news on many different websites, and sometimes save links to read later, you might be familiar with Pocket. The app and browser tools Pocket offers will save articles in an easy-to-read format that you can enjoy online or offline when convenient. Now their team is opening a beta test group for Android, iOS, and Web …

Yelp, run by CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, saw its stock tank this week. Getty Tell someone about the week Yelp has had, and they might want to cry. The local business and reviews service has suffered a string of blows over the past few days, starting with drama over the murder of a lion, and then bad news it gave to …

Mozilla’s CEO complains that Firefox is being Edged out by Microsoft. CNET Mozilla isn’t happy with Microsoft’s decision to make its Edge the default browser in Windows 10, and the Firefox maker’s chief executive has taken his displeasure public. In an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Mozilla CEO Chris Beard accuses Microsoft of hobbling users’ browser choices by …

Sony chief Kazuo Hirai was once high on smartphones. Now, he wants to focus efforts elsewhere. CBS Interactive Sony’s troubles in mobile are cutting deeply into the company’s pockets, a second-quarter earnings release shows. Sony’s Mobile & Communications division, which includes the sale of smartphones, saw revenue decline by 16.3 percent year-over-year to $2.3 billion (PDF). The division’s operating loss, …

IBM’s Watson computer is aiming to make you healthier with a new partnership with CVS. IBM IBM has teamed up with CVS Health, the operator of thousands of drugstores across the US, in a bid to more accurately predict a person’s health troubles and provide advice. The two companies have formed a partnership that will feed IBM’s Watson “cognitive computing” …

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. Electrohome I hereby dub this the Week Everything Sells Out! Seriously. No sooner do I fall all over myself trying to explain what happened with the previous day’s deal than the current deal …

T-Mobile CEO John Legere had another good quarter of subscriber growth. Sarah Tew/CNET T-Mobile has shown it can win over customers at an impressive rate. Now it needs to prove it can consistently make money doing so. If the second quarter’s results are any indication, T-Mobile is off to a good start. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier posted a profit …

Click here for more Road Trip 2015 stories. HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Sonny Vu looks utterly at ease as he sips a Vietnamese iced coffee laden with condensed milk and opines about the state of technology in Vietnam. We’re sitting by the pool at his new home in Ho Chi Minh City in early July, the morning after …

Sarah Tew/CNET Windows 10 represents a major change in how PCs look and work. Most early reviews and impressions of the new operating system have been positive, emphasizing the integrated desktop and start menu, the new Edge browser, and the Cortana digital assistant. But historically, upgrading a PC to a new OS has been known to cause performance and compatibility …