FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler vehemently defends his Net neutrality policy at Mobile World Congress 2015. Stephen Shankland/CNET BARCELONA — Tom Wheeler, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission, today defended his agency’s move to regulate the Internet, ensuring that broadband players would be unaffected by his “light touch” approach to the rules. “This is no …

Andrew Hoyle/CNET BARCELONA — Three will be the first and only UK network to stock the Honor 6 Plus , a 5.5-inch, octa-core Android phone, when it launches later this year, the company has announced here at MWC. The announcement is a significant one for Honor, the new phone brand owned by Chinese mobile giant Huawei, as up until now, …

Xiaomi’s Redmi 2 was announced earlier this year in January, but hasn’t yet made its way outside of China. Aloysius Low/CNET BARCELONA — While not available for sale just yet outside of China, the wallet-friendly Xiaomi Redmi 2 made a brief appearance on the Mobile World Congress show floor. However, you won’t be able to find it at the stands. …

Andrew Hoyle/CNET Scanning your fingerprints to unlock your smartphone is old news. It’s time to put your eyes to work! At this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Fujitsu has been showing off a concept phone that uses infrared lasers and cameras to scan your iris and unlock your phone. The first question in all of this is, of course, …

Screenshot by Sarah Mitroff/CNET Google is cleaning up your contacts. Today, the company teased out a preview of its new and improved Contacts page, where you view and manage the people, phone numbers and email addresses in your Google account. It looks a whole lot cleaner and promises to help make getting rid of duplicate entries easier. Related stories Google …

Apple is touting the camera capabilities of its iPhone 6. Apple Apple is promoting the iPhone 6 as the only device you need to snap a great photo. A new ad campaign called “Shot on iPhone 6,” playing out on billboards and Apple’s own website, features a series of photographs taken by users with Apple’s latest iPhone, as reported by …

BARCELONA — Dolby’s Atmos sound system shakes moviegoers with 51 speakers of ear-popping surround sound — and the company now claims to be recreating the Dolby Atmos effect in new phones and tablets. Can Dolby Atmos for mobile devices live up to its cinematic pedigree and meet Dolby’s claim that it will “really surprise people how much sound you can …

Alcatel-Lucent’s booth from Mobile World Congress 2014. The company is back with bigger news this year. Sarah Tew/CNET BARCELONA — To network-equipment provider Alcatel-Lucent, Wi-Fi and LTE can be BFFs. The two wireless technologies haven’t always gotten along with each other. Wi-Fi has an open architecture using unlicensed spectrum, so just about anyone can set up a hotspot with limited …

The Galaxy S6 comes with some big changes. Josh Miller/CNET BARCELONA — Samsung is on a mission to regain its swagger. The South Korean electronics conglomerate wasn’t afraid to shake up this year’s Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge, which features a screen that curves around the side of the device. Both flagship devices use metal instead of plastic, …

Intel came to Mobile World Congress to demonstrate its commitment to mobile — and to unveil new chips. Stephen Shankland/CNET BARCELONA — Intel on Monday unveiled a new set of mobile chips, with the hope that these more powerful processors will help it catch up to rivals in the smartphone and tablet markets. The company revealed at the Mobile World …

Now playing: Watch this: I, 3D camera robot 2:24 Room 229B may not sound like much, unless you go by its other name: the Robot Room. Behind a beige door in Qualcomm’s camera and imaging lab in San Diego, Calif., the robot in question sweeps its articulated mechanical arm in a surprisingly fluid ballet. Clamped in its metal fist, a …

iiNet After months of anticipation, Australians have finally learned when they’ll be able to get their hands on a Netflix subscription, with news that the US-based streaming service is coming to Australia on March 24. But one of the biggest announcements to come off the back of this launch is that local ISP iiNet has inked a deal with Netflix …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Mobile World Congress 2015. Stephen Shankland/CNET BARCELONA — It’s regular carriers and regular technology that will bring Internet access to the billions of people who lack it today, not sci-fi ideas like Google’s Project Loon balloons or Project Titan drones, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg thinks. “People like talking about that stuff because it’s …

JBL When it comes to computer audio, you should never settle for built-in speakers. Sure, your laptop or Chromebook may move around a lot, but for those times when it’s parked at a desk, you should always plug in desktop speakers — the better to enjoy Netflix streams, Spotify playlists, YouTube vids and so on. Same goes for your TV: …

Twitter is receiving death threats from terrorist group ISIS. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Twitter again appears to be in the crosshairs of the terrorist group ISIS. A message posted Sunday on the website JustPaste.it called for the death of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and Twitter employees due to the site’s takedown of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) member …