The breathalyzer pops out of the back of the case. iDrink Some day soon, your iPhone may tell you if you’re drunk, show you exactly how drunk you are and help you hail a cab to get home. That’s the idea behind the iDrink case on Indiegogo. The case is designed to contain a breathalyzer …

The first HP products with Bang and Olufsen audio will be coming this spring. HP Hewlett-Packard is teaming up with Bang & Olufsen to bring the Denmark company’s audio expertise to HP’s new personal computers, tablets and headphones. Bang & Olufsen replaces Beats as HP’s long-time audio vendor, after Apple — HP’s competitor in PCs — bought Beats for $3 …

One catch is that only the first gigabyte of data is 4G. A new mobile phone plan from MetroPCS offers unlimited talk, text and data for $30 a month. Available Tuesday, the new plan is aimed at undercutting rivals Boost and Cricket. MetroPCS, which is owned by T-Mobile, offers prepaid, contract-free plans for mobile users who don’t want to be …

Fancy a ride? Melissa Celestine Koh/Uber Nothing makes an impression like stepping out of a supercar. That’s the hook for Uber’s latest offer, which will be available in Singapore until May 20. App users have the option of being fetched around by either the upscale Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, or the equally stylish Maserati GranTurismo Coupe. Singapore doesn’t see luxury supercars …

Sarah Tew/CNET The Fitbit Surge sport watch will soon be able to track more than just your runs. Fitbit announced on Monday that an upcoming update will add tracking support for outdoor cycling. With the hel-p of the GPS and other sensors, riders will able to view their distance, duration, average speed, heart rate and calories burned in real-time. A …

Twitch’s chief doesn’t think consoles in their current incarnations are sustainable. Gaming broadcast service Twitch might have found a home on consoles, but in the coming years, the company’s chief executive doesn’t believe those devices can maintain their current business model. “The problem is, the seven-year upgrade lifecycle doesn’t work in the face of the two-year upgrade cycles for every …

Office apps like Microsoft Word will come already downloaded on some Android tablets from Dell, Samsung and other device makers. James Martin/CNET Microsoft just sharpened its software sword against Google on the search giant’s own platform. Windows productivity and collaboration apps, like its Skype messaging service, will now be found on the home screen when people buy some Dell devices …

Through a partnership with Adobe Systems, Microsoft’s next-generation Project Spartan browser will get better Web standards support. Microsoft Adobe Systems is giving Microsoft a hand building new features into its next-generation browser. Four of the top five browsers — Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari and Opera Software’s Opera — are based on open-source projects to which anybody can contribute. …

You’ll soon pay more for Windows Store apps, but only if you live outside the US. Microsoft Windows users who live outside the US will soon have to pay more money for Windows Store apps. Microsoft is raising the prices for apps on currencies in such countries as the UK, Russia, China, Denmark, Sweden and Mexico, blog site Windows Central …

Instagram’s new app Layout. Screenshot by Sarah Mitroff/CNET Instagram wants you to forget all of those other collage apps. Today the company debuted Layout, a standalone app for iOS (Android ‘s coming soon) that lets you create photo collages that you can then share to Instagram or Facebook. You don’t even need an Instagram or Facebook account to use it. …

President Barack Obama is making good on his promise to bring more broadband to Americans. President Barack Obama makes remarks supporting municipal broadband deployments in January in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza On Monday he signed a memorandum formally creating the Broadband Opportunity Council, a federal initiative aimed at increasing broadband investment from private industry …

You apparently will be able to hide certain preloaded apps from Samsung’s new Galaxy S phones. Josh Miller/CNET Buy a Samsung Galaxy S6 or S6 Edge, and you apparently won’t be stuck looking at all the apps that come with it. Screenshots of the upcoming Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone posted late last week on the XDA Developers forum show that …

Make one of these before you actually have a need for it. Rick Broida/CNET Back in the old days, computers that came with Windows also came with Windows media: floppy disks, then later CDs and eventually a DVD. If you needed to reinstall the OS for any reason, you just used that media. Those days are over. Think about the …

Google Glass won’t die, despite some claims to the contrary. Sarah Tew/CNET The Google Glass smart eyewear might no longer be available, but it will be making a triumphant return, according to the search giant’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt. Glass is “a big and very fundamental platform for Google,” Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Monday. …

Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET If your workday has you spending large amounts of time working and collaborating online, then Chrome extension Todoed can help you stay on task. Or, more accurately stated, create tasks. With Todoed, you can turn snippets from a productive chat with a coworker — and nearly any text you encounter in Chrome — into to-do list …