The Samsung event invite might make you hungry. Samsung There’s an art to creating an invitation for a major technology event. You want to hint at what’s to come without really giving anything away. Apple has been a master of this. Usually you get spare graphics and a short phrase designed to generate excitement. Samsung’s …

Sprint keeps adding to its Apple device leasing programs. CNET Sprint is keeping up its effort to entice more Apple enthusiasts, this time offering a bundle of the iPhone and iPad for $100 a month. The promotion, which ends April 9, pulls together the wireless carrier’s existing iPhone for Life and iPad for Life leasing programs at a savings of …

The number of Internet users in China continues to skyrocket. China added 31 million Internet users for a total of 649 million, the country’s China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) reported Tuesday, according to Reuters, which obtained a copy of the report. The country’s total number of mobile Internet users jumped by 57 million to 557 million, CNNIC reported. China’s …

Android 5.0 Lollipop finally registers on the market share radar. Google Android 5.0 Lollipop finally has enough market share to appear on Google’s radar. According to the latest version of the Android Developers Dashboard, published on Monday, Lollipop has found itself a home on 1.6 percent of Android devices. That percentage accounts for all Android devices that visited the Google …

The room-size EDSAC could perform 650 instructions per second. University of Cambridge A rare remnant of a pioneering British computer has surfaced in the United States and made its way to the UK to be incorporated into a reconstruction of the historic machine. The computer, called the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, or EDSAC, is recognized as one of the …

Amazon is offering students an easy way to pick up items on campus. Amazon/Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Amazon is rolling out yet another service to expand its online presence into the real world. As of Tuesday, students at Purdue University will be able to pick up textbooks and other items they’ve ordered through Amazon at an Amazon-staffed center on campus. …

Sony plans to cut 2,100 positions from its mobile division in the next year. CNET Sony expects its net loss for 2014 to be smaller than previously forecast, thanks largely to higher-than-expected sales of image sensors and PlayStation 4 game consoles. The technology and entertainment conglomerate will likely record a net loss of 170 billion yen ($1.4 billion) for 2014, …

What’s next for Samsung’s mobile marketing? We’ll know soon enough when the company holds its Unpacked event March 1 to introduce new devices. Samsung Technology conglomerate Samsung has appointed a new mobile-marketing chief ahead of a crucial period for the company’s smartphone and tablet division. Kim Seok-pil has stepped down as Samsung’s head of mobile marketing due to health reasons, …

The wreckage of this Cessna may be tragic evidence that piloting a plane and taking selfies don’t mix. CBS Denver screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Much publicity is dedicated to stopping people from texting while driving. However, the potential hazards of mobile gadgets may now have extended to taking selfies while piloting a plane. Last May, a Cessna 150K crashed near …

Senator Scott Ludlam has questioned the Government on the effectiveness of data retention. Image by CeBIT Australia, CC BY 2.0 Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has grilled the Government on its proposed Data Retention Bill, exposing the vast number of services that Australians would be able to use to prevent their online metadata from being stored. While questioning the Attorney-General’s Department …

Tim Berners-Lee at MIT. Martin LaMonica/CNET The man who invented the World Wide Web believes that Net neutrality laws are critical for the future of the Internet. In a guest blog post written for the European Commission’s website, Berners-Lee discussed threats to “the openness that underpins the Web and the broader Internet.” He aimed his comments at Europe, but they …

Amazon may be in the market for some RadioShack stores. RadioShack Amazon may be eyeing RadioShack stores as a way to expand its online operations into the brick-and-mortar world, according to Bloomberg. Hit by plummeting sales over the past few years, RadioShack is reportedly considering the sale of half of its stores to Sprint and then closing the rest, unnamed …

CUPERTINO, Calif. — It’s not just Apple’s iPhone that attracts long lines. It’s also the possibility of being in the new Steve Jobs movie that gets Apple fans up at the crack of dawn. I found that out the hard way when I showed up on a beautiful Saturday morning to be an extra in the unnamed Jobs biopic penned …

Picturesque Lock Screen is now available in the Google Play marketplace. Microsoft Microsoft Garage, the public lab where the company’s employees share experimental ideas, has cooked up a new lock screen for Android. Picturesque Lock Screen is designed for Android only and presents Bing’s home page imagery from the last six days on the Android lock screen. The free app …

Sarah Tew/CNET The iPad is nearly 5 years old. That product, ever since, has continued to ride a thin dividing line between iPhones and Macs: mobile, and computers. Apple’s world has since become all about the iPhone. Look at the latest sales numbers, and they’re shockingly lopsided: iPhones now represent almost three-quarters of Apple’s revenue. Macs and iPads, while still …