Apple’s newest Manhattan store, which first opened in 1922 as a bank. Ben Fox Rubin/CNET Apple wants to offer a touch of luxury at its newest Manhattan location. The space at 940 Madison Ave., which will open to the public Saturday morning, was most recently a storefront for luxury handbag purveyor VBH and is still …

The robocalling spat comes at a sensitive time for PayPal, as it plans to split from eBay later this year. Getty Images PayPal has yet another critic of its new user agreement: the Federal Communications Commission. The US regulator sent a letter Thursday to the digital payments company, questioning an amendment in the paperwork requiring users to consent to automated …

What might have been: The Nokia (or Microsoft) Moonraker. Evan Blass Once upon a time, another company was dreaming up smartwatch ideas, only to have Microsoft dash its plans, according to a new report. Images of an unannounced smartwatch were discovered on Friday by tech-leak-finder and technology journalist Evan Blass. The images, which were on a Tumblr blog operated by …

Asus Chairman did not rule out acquiring HTC Aloysius Low/CNET Asus isn’t ruling out an acquisition of HTC. Chairman Johnny Shih expressed his openness to such a deal when asked at the company’s annual general meeting, Chief Financial Officer David Chang told Reuters on Friday. A deal between the two Taiwanese consumer electronics companies would bolster Asus’s own portfolio and …

The figurines promised with a minimum pledge of $75. The Forking Path On the surface, The Doom That Came to Atlantic City should have been a shoe-in — a Monopoly-style board game in which you play as Lovecraftian horrors competing to take over the Earth, a labour of love by artist Lee Moyer and game designer Keith Baker, made under …

Emotions have run high over Net neutrality. Here, protesters interrupt a meeting of the FCC commissioners on December 11, 2014. (Wheeler is second from left.) Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission’s open Internet rules will take effect on Friday as planned after a federal court rejected requests by opponents to delay the rules pending lawsuits against the agency. A …

The iStand 6 features a kickstand that also lets it function as a desktop dock. Wirelessky If you bought an iPhone 6 last fall, you might just be getting to the point where battery life isn’t what it used to be. All smartphone batteries lose capacity over time, hence the necessity for external power solutions. A mobile charger is one …

The LG G Watch, powered by Google’s Android Wear operating system, isn’t a locked-down repository for personal data. Josh Miller/CNET Want to keep your private data private? Maybe you should postpone that smartwatch purchase. Researchers at the University of New Haven have shown that they can extract personal information from the LG G Watch and from the Samsung Gear 2 …

Amazon’s e-book contracts are now the subject of an investigation in the EU. Screenshot by David Carnoy/CNET E-book contracts are under investigation again, but this time, it’s Amazon on the receiving end of the inquiries. The European Union’s competition watchdog, the European Commission, has launched a formal investigation into Amazon’s deals with e-book publishers. The EC is particularly interested in …

An example of the email Charlie sends you before your next meeting. Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET Have you ever rushed into a meeting, not having a chance to do any research on who exactly it is you’ll be talking to? I know I have, and it almost always leads to an awkward, forehead-slapping “I should have known that” moment. Charlie …

CNET Twitter’s making a bigger bet on private messaging. The company announced on its developer blog today that starting in July it’s removing the 140-character limit on direct messages; the private messages you can send to another Twitter user. The news comes the same day Twitter announced that Dick Costolo is out as CEO come July. Early on in Twitter’s …

After launching an app for the Telstra T-Box earlier this year, local video streaming service Presto has now unveiled a native app for a select range of Samsung smart TVs. The Presto app will initially be available on the 2012, 2013 and 2014 ranges of Samsung smart TVs, with compatibility for the 2015 models coming soon. Presto is actually two …

T-Mobile CEO John Legere is urging consumers to contact the FCC to adopt more favorable rules in its upcoming spectrum auction to ensure future competition. CNET T-Mobile CEO John Legere wants you to “make some noise” about an obscure and highly technical topic that may help the wireless carrier improve its service. Legere, in his usual bombastic and foul-mouthed way, …

Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET The built-in Dictionary app for Macs is a powerful and useful tool, offering definitions, of course, along with thesaurus and Wikipedia entries. You can make it more powerful and more useful with the Terminology for OS X add-on from Agile Tortoise. Terminology is free and installs into the Dictionary app. Terminology is based on the WordNet …

PayPal might soon be calling you with robocalls, but the New York attorney general wants to know more. PayPal The soon-to-be-split eBay and PayPal need to answer for changes they’re making to their user agreements, according to the New York state attorney general’s office. The office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has issued a letter to eBay and …