Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET If you’re excited about the new features in Microsoft Edge but not thrilled about switching browsers, I don’t blame you. While Edge is definitely speedier, sexier and sleeker than Internet Explorer…it’s not exactly bursting at the seams with add-ons and extensions like Google Chrome is. Good news — you don’t have to …

Nicole Cozma/CNET Lollipop brought many new style adjustments to the Android platform. Among these changes was the new style for notification delivery. Instead of showing as an alert in the notification bar with ticking (scrolling) text, the alerts pop up in a banner at the top of the screen — even when using another app. Some users may enjoy this …

Yahoo has been working to expand in mobile as its desktop ad sales have weakened. Sarah Tew/CNET NEW YORK — Now you are the emoji. Yahoo on Wednesday unveiled a new video texting app, called Livetext, which the company hopes can revive its relevance for smartphone users. The twist for this service is that the videos don’t have sound. “We …

Your next KFC chicken bucket might let you print your greasy selfies. Video screenshot by Anthony Domanico/CNET Kentucky Fried Chicken has been operating in Canada for 60 years, and to celebrate that milestone anniversary, the company is getting a little weird. Well, weirder, I guess, as the global food chain is also responsible for such monstrosities as the cookie coffee …

Google’s Translate app can now handle instant translation for 27 different languages. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Google is expanding the repertoire of its Translate app to handle the instant translation or more than two dozen different languages. Designed for both iOS and Android, the Google Translate app is adding 20 new languages. You’ll be able to translate to and from …

The CommBank Offers app (left) is entering trial stages, while a new Loyalty feature will let customers ditch their physical loyalty cards. Commonwealth Bank Commonwealth Bank may be a business concerned with helping people save their money, but now it’s going to help customers spend it with two new retail-focused initiatives to expand its mobile wallet offering. The financial institution …

The Samsung Galaxy S6, and its many variants like the Galaxy S6 Active (pictured here), haven’t been enough to boost the company’s financial results. CNET Samsung’s Galaxy S6 was supposed to turn its fortunes around. Instead, the company reported its seventh straight profit decline and will be cutting the price of its three-month-old device to attract new buyers. The South …

As you’re no doubt aware, today is Windows 10 launch day. If you’re already registered for the new OS, now it’s just a waiting game as Microsoft pushes out the update. Don’t want to wait? You don’t have to: There’s actually a Windows 10 download page where you can grab the OS right now. Although it appears to be focused …

Now playing: Watch this: Start me up: Watch CNET’s early coverage of Windows 95,… 4:25 This summer marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Windows 95, a significant improvement over Windows 3.1 in reliability and ease of use but an upgrade that was dismissed by Apple fans as being 11 years late to the party. Because 1995 also marked …

Who are the 15 percent of people polled who still don’t use the Internet? CNET For the vast majority of people living in the US, Internet use is a given, an expectation, a norm. But about 15 percent still don’t turn to the Net at all, according to new data from Pew Research. That figure is down substantially from 2000 …

The Idol 3 is Alcatel OneTouch’s idea of a flagship smartphone. Josh MIller/CNET When you think flagship smartphone, Apple’s iPhone 6 or Samsung’s Galaxy S6 — devices that start at $650 without a service contract — come to mind. But Chinese smartphone vendor Alcatel OneTouch doesn’t believe flagship necessarily has to equal expensive. “It’s all of the right technology at …

Telstra TV is a rebadged Roku 2. Telstra Australian streaming video fans have often wondered if or when the popular US set-top box Roku would arrive in this country. Well now the wait is over, though a licensing and rebrand as Telstra TV may surprise and disappoint. Announced in a blogpost on Telstra Exchange on Tuesday, Telstra will add the …

Microsoft’s Cortana, a personal virtual assistant, can crack jokes about the Halo games (where the name Cortana originates) and tell country and language-specific jokes. Josh Miller/CNET We live in a world where we’re starting to talk to our computers, but it still feels like the device on the receiving end is a machine. Microsoft believes it’s begun solving that with …

Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters. James Martin/CNET Twitter has been a slow-growth company for a while. The company on Tuesday warned investors that it’s essentially a no-growth company. “We do not expect to see sustained meaningful growth in [monthly active users] until we start to reach the mass market,” Twitter CFO Anthony Noto told analysts during the company’s second quarter conference …

Qualcomm’s new technology will let you wirelessly charge a device with a metal exterior. Jessica Dolcourt/CNET Mobile phones that sport metal bodies or cases will soon be able to wirelessly charge themselves courtesy of a new technology created by Qualcomm. Qualcomm subsidiary Qualcomm Technologies Inc. (QTI) announced on Tuesday that it’s the first company to enable wireless charging of mobile …