Sarah Tew/CNET What is a smartwatch, and what can it do? The Apple Watch arrives in a landscape filled with things for your wrist. How does it stack up? Great in some ways, and not so wonderfully in others. Let’s look at the closest competition and see. Pebble Watch My personal favorite, the Pebble, is …
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Spring cleaning month is coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean you should stop optimizing the tech in your life. Gmail can be a source of stress if you don’t have a good system in place for responding to email, or the ability to easily locate contact information. Fortunately, these changes are just a few clicks away. Here’s seven …
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Will the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge be joined by a third variant? Josh Miller/CNET Samsung will offer yet another version of its Galaxy S6 smartphone, this one dual-SIM cards, according to photos allegedly leaked online. Pictures of the purported phone snagged by blog site Phone Arena show a device with two SIM card trays. The device itself is a …
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Global Fashion Group appeals to fashion-seekers. Global Fashion Group One of the leaders in Amazon’s European operations has left the e-retail giant to run a fashion company that’s now flush with cash. Romain Voog, the former Amazon France president, has been appointed CEO of Global Fashion Group, the company announced Wednesday. In his new role, Voog will be in charge …
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Outlook.com appears to be malfunctioning. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Having trouble with your Outlook.com account this morning? You’re not alone. As of 9:34 p.m. PT Tuesday, some type of technical glitch has been affecting Microsoft’s Outlook.com email service and various email clients. The company has acknowledged the problem on its service status page and has been promising to fix it: …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET It’s not exactly cleaning per se, but in the spirit of organization, now is a good time to go through your devices and make sure you’re up to date on your backups. After all, what’s the point of diligently backing up your iPhone or Android device, only to find that you’re a few months (and several hundred …
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Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET Apple released a free update today for Mac OS X Yosemite that brings with it the new Photos app along with several other tweaks and fixes to the Mac OS. You can download the Mac OS X 10.10.3 update right now from the Mac App Store. Announced first in June 2014 at WWDC, Apple said the …
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A pink version of the Mi Note (above) was also sold during the company’s Mi Fan Festival event. Aloysius Low/CNET Xiaomi recorded impressive sales growth during a 12-hour online sale Wednesday, another sign that the smartphone upstart may be a worthy challenger to leading handset makers. The Chinese smartphone maker said it sold 2.12 million handsets during its Mi Fan …
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AT&T AT&T has reached a $25 million settlement with the Federal Communications Commission over stolen customer data from three international call centers. The data breaches took place at contracted call centers in Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines, and involved the unauthorized disclosure of almost 280,000 U.S. customers’ names, full or partial Social Security numbers and unauthorized access to protected account-related …
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Go to Software Update to start downloading iOS 8.3. Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET Apple released iOS 8.3 today with several bug fixes and a few new additions and you can update now by going to Software Update on your iOS devices. Apple also released an update to Mac OS X Yosemite today to introduce the new Photos app as well …
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The CommBank app is coming to wearables. Commonwealth Bank As Australia gears up for the launch of the Apple Watch, Commonwealth Bank is jumping on the wearables trend with a new CommBank app for Android and iOS. Launching “in a matter of weeks” for smartwatches running Android 4.3 or later, the app will also be coming to the Apple Watch, …
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Facebook is increasing the capabilities of its Messenger communication service. Facebook released a new version of its Messenger communication service, but it wasn’t an update for the company’s smartphone or tablet app. Instead, Facebook launched Messenger.com, a website making the service available for desktop and laptop computers. The social network has been expanding its Messenger platform steadily over the past …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET As part of our spring cleaning coverage, we decided to take a look at cleaning up your coffee table, saving some paper, and going digital with print subscriptions. With both Google and Apple having an Newsstand section in each respective store, most major magazine and newspapers offer a digital version. When it comes to newspaper subscriptions, typically there …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET It’s true, mobile payments aren’t mainstream quite yet, but that shouldn’t stop you from going digital with your wallet. Over the course of the last year how many times have you accidentally forgotten your wallet? How about your smartphone? I’m willing to bet your wallet is far more neglected, and for good reason. When you combine insurance cards, …
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An example of the various colors now present in iOS 8’s emoji. Jason Cipriani/CNET Apple on Wednesday released iOS 8.3, bringing with it a slew of bug fixes and performance improvements. In addition to cleaning up shop, Apple also released a redesigned emoji keyboard complete with a more racially diverse set of characters. In other words, instead of only finding …
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