Hocus Focus menu. Jason Cipriani/CNET For me, having multiple apps and windows open on my Mac’s desktop is the norm. While I often shuffle through them with the Command-Tab shortcut, my cluttered desktop can feel a tad overwhelming at times. I may go over an hour before I need to look at a particular window, …

This week, the tech giants are sharing big dreams. Holographic headsets. Internet in space. Building a better diaper… Now playing: Watch this: Google wants to be your wireless carrier 2:54 In this tech-news roundup, you’ll learn: why Google would want to be a wireless carrier what stinks at Amazon a new way teachers can create digital textbooks about Overstock’s streaming-video …

Verizon Starting today, Verizon is giving its prepaid subscribers extra data at no additional cost. The $45 rate plan now allows for up to 1GB of high speed data, which is double its previous allotment of 500MB. As an added incentive, Verizon will toss in an another 500MB for anyone who signs up for the automatic bill-pay option, Auto Pay. …

The new Dropbox app supports Windows 8.1 tablets and Windows Phone handsets. Microsoft Dropbox has finally rolled out its official app for Windows 8.1 tablets and Windows Phone handsets. Launched on Wednesday, the Windows app and the Windows Phone app allow Dropbox users to tap into their online storage directly from their Windows Start screens and take advantage of several …

Newegg Before I forget, you still have a chance to win some sweet D-Link smart-home gear. A couple clicks and presto, you’re entered! Sometimes I wonder what long-gone inventors would think of our modern society. Like if the Wright brothers could see a 747, for example, or Johannes Gutenberg could see today’s deal. For a limited time, and while supplies …

Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET I think everyone should have decent online stalking skills. Not because I condone stalking, but because knowledge is power — if you don’t know how to find people online, how do you know what people can find about you online? Googling yourself is like checking your credit report for inaccuracies: it’s only effective as a preventative measure …

Matt Elliott/CNET You know you have a tabs problem when it would be easier to just search for one of your open tabs than to try to navigate to it by clicking your open tabs until you find it. If you have reached this point and use Chrome, then you need help in the form of Chrome extension Tablight. Tablight …

Don’t hold your breath for Verizon Wireless to counter AT&T and T-Mobile with a data rollover program. Verizon CFO Fran Shammo isn’t a fan of rollover plans. Jessica Dolcourt/CNET That’s according to Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo, who said the nation’s largest wireless carrier by subscribers would not follow its rivals and allow consumers to move unused data into …

Glimpse on iOS 8. Jason Cipriani/CNET Now this is an interesting app. Glimpse is designed solely to display webpages of your choosing in the Today view of Notification Center. The thought behind it is that we all often refresh a webpage or site in order to check for updates, and by putting the page in widget form we can do …

BlackBerry CEO John Chen says Apple’s services should be made to run on other operating systems. CNET Apple’s iMessage platform shouldn’t just work on Apple products, but should be available on all kinds of devices, the CEO of BlackBerry has said. BlackBerry, which a decade ago was a smartphone pioneer with its email-capable handsets, has suffered a high-profile decline as …

Verizon is finally feeling the heat. Verizon said three out of four smartphone upgrades came from a basic phone user or high-value customers. Verizon After shrugging off multiple quarters of competitive pressure from rivals, the nation’s largest wireless carrier by subscribers finally succumbed a bit to the myriad of promotional offers that launched during the year-end holiday period. While the …

Enlarge ImageThe new model will boost the Galaxy Note 4’s download speed on compatible networks. James Martin/CNET Editors’ Note, January 21, 2014: This article has been updated to reflect Samsung’s confirmation that the Galaxy Note 4 variant will use an Exynos processor, and not Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 processor as previously reported. Another high-powered Android device is getting an LTE-A redux. …

Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft demos Office, PowerPoint apps across PC and… 5:05 Promising a “nearly no-compromise experience” for phones, tablets and PCs, Microsoft today demoed its upcoming universal apps for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The new Office apps are designed for Windows 10 and were made with touch in mind and will be included in Windows 10 on phones …

The evolution of Microsoft’s Perceptive Pixel acquisition, the Surface Hub is an 84-inch 4K touchscreen for the workplace. Microsoft LAS VEGAS — Nestled between two false walls in a lavish suite at the Venetian hotel and casino is what I think is an enormous television. Here, during the chaos of the annual Consumer Electronics Show in early January, too-large TVs …

Twitter Recap shows you important tweets you may have missed, with a “while you were away” heading. Twitter One of Twitter’s greatest attractions is that it surfaces tweets in real time and sequentially, making it great for following breaking news. But users are bound to miss something when they step away from the service. To address this issue, Twitter rolled …