YouTube Kids is deceptive to children, consumer and children’s advocacy groups say. Jason Cipriani/CNET A collection of consumer and children’s advocacy groups have come together to urge US regulators to do something about Google’s new child-focused YouTube app. Organizations including the Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Watchdog, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent …

Dallas Buyers Club. Focus Features iiNet has welcomed a landmark piracy judgement handed down by the Federal Court yesterday, saying the legal case has shed light on the practice of ‘speculative invoicing’ and the ruling prevents its customers from being threatened over copyright infringement. The makers of the Oscar-winning film “Dallas Buyers Club” took iiNet and a number of other …

Image by Jaskirat Singh Bawa, CC BY-ND 2.0 Australia’s Communications Alliance has released the final version of an industry code targeted at tackling piracy in Australia, officially putting ‘three strikes’ warning notices on the table for Internet users. A draft version of the code was released in February, and the final document has now been filed with the Australian Communications …

Jason Cipriani/CNET I’ll be the first to admit my music collection is less than organized. To be honest, I hate dealing with it. I despise going file by file, renaming, adding the album title, track number and so on. It’s a hassle. With that said, organizing your music collection is something that needs to be done. Once you get a …

Matt Elliott/CNET A few months back, I wrote about Better Window Manager, a Mac app that helps you juggle your open windows by letting you save their size and positions. I liked the app, but I like Divvy better. Divvy is currently featured as part of $2 Tuesday, which represents a significant discount of its regular $13.99 price for Mac …

Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge isn’t easy to repair, according to iFixit. Josh Miller/CNET The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is not especially friendly to DIYers, according to iFixit. The smartphone, set for release on Friday, was the subject of a teardown from iFixit, which sells repair parts and offers free online repair guides to electronic devices. Like iFixit’s many other teardowns, …

Uber is trying to sidestep a lawsuit tied to an alleged rape in New Delhi, India. Uber Car-hailing service Uber has asked a US court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a customer who was allegedly raped in India last year by one of its drivers. Uber on Monday filed for the dismissal in US federal court, according to Reuters, …

The LG G4 will be here before the month is out. LG LG has dialed up a novel way to drum up consumer buzz for its latest flagship smartphone before its expected launch later this month. The South Korean handset maker announced plans Tuesday to choose 4,000 people in 15 markets to “test drive” the LG G4 for a few …

Microsoft Over the years I’ve said some pretty uncharitable things about Microsoft Office, but it’s not the software I dislike — it’s the price. To my thinking, Microsoft continues to charge an unreasonable amount for a package that’s overkill for many users. Okay, so what’s a reasonable price? This: For a limited time, and while supplies last, E-Tech Galaxy (via …

Twitter on the Galaxy Note 3 Photo by Nicole Cozma/CNET Hopefully you’re in full spring cleaning mode, because it’s time to do a bit of optimization — and possibly deletion — on your social-media accounts. We’ll start with making sure you have a recent password on your account, then unlink some unnecessary apps, and finally cut the cord on services …

Android Lollipop is finally reaching AT&T HTC One M8 users. Google Owners of the HTC One M8 phone on AT&T should be on the lookout for a shot of Android Lollipop as of Tuesday. A Monday night tweet from HTC vice president of product management Mo Versi said that the latest version of Google’s mobile OS is finally launching for …

Jason Cipriani/CNET Over the years it’s easy to accumulate a stack of video games and movies. Eventually, games you used to love are thrown to the side after you beat the big boss for the millionth time. And movies lose their luster once you’ve memorized the entire flick, line-by-line. While DVDs make for fun drink coasters and game cases make …

Jason Cipriani/CNET Google last week announced an update to its Gmail for Android app. The headlining feature being added in the update was a unified inbox that was long missing from the app. For some, the ability to view all of your email accounts, be it an Google or IMAP/POP account (iCloud, Comcast or the like) in the same place …

Apple apparently would prefer that its customers order the Apple Watch online. Apple Apple is purportedly telling its retail store employees to encourage customers to order the Apple Watch online. Preorders of the Apple Watch are set to start Friday. The watch will then be available online or by reservation in Apple stores starting April 24. However, “store inventory will …

The LG G4 will be here before the month is out. LG LG’s next-gen flagship smartphone, the G4, is expected to launch on April 28. How do we know? It’s simple: LG can’t keep quiet over the handset. Related Links LG plans to launch high-end smartphone to surpass G4 LG: Next flagship phone to sport vastly improved 5.5-inch LCD LG …