James Martin/CNET Can Twitter turn your tweets into a money-making business? Chief Executive Officer Dick Costolo told investors the social-media giant did just that, despite reporting growth in monthly active users for the fourth quarter that fell short of Wall Street expectations. Twitter said it notched a profit of $79.32 million, or 12 cents a …

The PowerShot G3 X prototype. Canon Canon didn’t provide much useful information about the prototype of a G3 X that it plans to display at CP+ 2015: 1-inch sensor and 24-600mm zoom 25x lens. In the absence of price, lens aperture specs or ship date there isn’t a lot one can say about this. Given the Canon’s traditional nomenclature, it …

Catch cult classics via Shout! Factory TV. There’s a new streaming-video service in town, and it’s free. Premiering Thursday, Shout Factory TV serves up a variety of TV shows and movies from the ’50s and beyond. You can watch your favorite TV shows or movies on your computer, smartphone or tablet. Roku device owners can download the Shout Factory TV …

Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET If you haven’t made your Valentine’s Day plans yet, you may be in trouble — especially this year. Why? Because this year the heart-filled holiday falls on a Saturday. Yeah, and you thought last year was bad, when V-Day was on a Friday. Trust me, this will be even worse: no Friday fatigue, no early morning workday, …

AT&T has again edged out its rivals in a survey on wireless customer care. When it comes to customer service among the major wireless carriers, AT&T can say it’s still No. 1. In the latest study by research firm J.D. Power, which covers the period from July through December 2014, AT&T scored a 786 out of a possible 1,000 points, …

Swatch is adding a smartwatch to its colorful lineup of regular watches. Swatch Swatch will unveil its own smartwatch in the next two to three months. Known for its colorful and eye-catching line of watches, Swatch was initially dubious about entering the smartwatch business, CEO Nick Hayek told the Bloomberg news agency. But now the company will compete against the …

Madonna has released her latest music video on…Snapchat? Yep. Video screenshot by Anthony Domanico/CNET While Snapchat may be the social network of choice for today’s teens, the teens of yesteryear are starting to slowly invade the disappearing messaging service. Madonna, aka The Queen of Pop, is decidedly not a teen (the entertainer is 56 years old), but on Thursday she …

GoPro GoPro’s content partnerships have come in more of a slow trickle than a deluge. An in-flight entertainment channel on Virgin America kicked things off in October 2013. That was followed by channel apps for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Xbox One entertainment systems in January 2014, and an LG Smart TV app a year later this January. While those first …

Sprint is showing faint signs of life. Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure has injected new life into the company. Sprint The nation’s third-largest wireless carrier, which has suffered through several quarters of customer defections, finally returned to growth as customers took up Sprint’s offers for discounts and bigger data plans. The company added nearly 900,000 customers in its Sprint business. Most …

Canon Canon gifts its pro shooters with the EF 11-24mm f4L USM, a rectilinear wide-angle zoom that has all the weather-sealed chops of the company’s L series of lenses. Okay, maybe “gifts” is the wrong word. After all, the lens will cost $3,000 (about £1,960, AU$3,850 directly converted) when it ships in February. In addition to the requisite 9 rounded-blade …

Google Takeout Nicole Cozma/CNET YouTube is a great medium for sharing your videos with friends, family or the world in general. However, if you want to post your videos elsewhere, you’ll need to keep copies on your hard drive. If you don’t have backups, you could download them from YouTube, but you’ll get lower-resolution copies of your videos. As a …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy S6 vs. S6 Edge vs. Apple iPhone 6 6:28 Samsung may be planning to offer a variety of body styles for its much-anticipated Galaxy S6, according to exclusive images obtained by CNET Korea and sister site ZDNet Korea. The images, provided by sources at a South Korean electronics distributor, purportedly show five variants of …

Will you be my Valentine? Jason Cipriani/CNET Procrastinators, listen closely. Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. If you’re ordering presents from a cross-country retailer, shipping deadlines play a big part in ensuring it’s delivered on time. UPS and FedEx are reliable, until you really need something to be delivered on time and then it seems like the shipping gods take the …

Nulaxy If much of your computing life revolves around a desktop, you’re probably accustomed to — and comfortable with — your full-size mouse and keyboard. So what happens when you make the move to a tablet, Chromebook, ultrabook, or other device that has few, if any, ports for those beloved wired peripherals? Sure, you can buy Bluetooth-capable replacements, but is …

Matt Elliott/CNET When listening to music in iTunes on your iPhone, you can swipe up to access playback controls from the Control Center panel to skip to the next song, for example. To choose a new album or playlist, however, you must wade into the iTunes app. With the 99-cent WidgeTunes app, you can bypass iTunes and access your iTunes …