Film crews transformed the garage at the childhood home of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Production on a new Jobs film has started in Los Altos, Calif. James Martin/CNET LOS ALTOS, Calif. — The garage at Steve Jobs’ childhood home here looks like a trip back in time. Cinderblock and wood shelves are pieced together …

Alibaba has big plans for the US. Alibaba Group China-based e-commerce giant Alibaba has a new service that’s meant to make it simpler for companies in the United States to sell their products to China’s consumers. The goal of the platform — called Alipay ePass — is to eliminate barriers to market that come from not having a physical presence …

The concept of a family plan with a shared pool of data has been a hit for the big-name wireless carriers. Sprint is banking it will get the same kind of attention when it arrives in the prepaid world courtesy of its Virgin Mobile arm. The LG Tribute will be one of the phones that work with Virgin’s new shared …

AT&T will have a network that spans the US and Mexico. AT&T It’s official: AT&T is heading down to Mexico. The Dallas-based telecommunications giant said Friday that it had closed its $2.5 billion acquisition of Mexican wireless carrier Iusacell. The company also named Thaddeus Arroyo, who served as president of AT&T Technology Development, the new CEO of the operation, based …

Google Glass isn’t dead. But it is under new management. Google announced that the Explorer models of Glass will no longer be sold to the public after Monday, as the connected eyewear is evolving and moving out of Google’s lab. The man behind the design of the iPod and Nest Thermostat , Tony Fadell, is now in charge of the …

Expect HTC’s next flagship phone to launch in March. HTC We figured that HTC would continue to use the massive Mobile World Congress show to launch the next flagship phone in its portfolio, the HTC One M9. On Friday, invitations made the press conference a reality. Granted, it’s tough to decode from the invitation exactly which product or announcement HTC …

Now playing: Watch this: T-Mobile vs. AT&T: Which rollover data plan is right… 2:58 T-Mobile recently announced Data Stash, a program that allows customers to rollover their unused data each month. Shortly after, AT&T announced a similar program that also allows customers to carry unused data from one month to the next. Now the obvious question: Which plan is better? …

Now playing: Watch this: Netpicks: Amazon Pilot Season kicks off 2:06 What’s new on Amazon On January 15, Amazon made 13 pilots available for its 2015 Pilot Season. Amazon uses a number of factors, including viewer feedback, to determine which shows will get the green light and earn a full season run. This year, there are six shows geared toward …

Sprint doesn’t think that the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to reclassify broadband traffic as a utility is such a bad idea after all. Sprint In a letter to the FCC filed on Friday, Sprint’s chief technology officer went against the rest of the wireless and broadband industry by saying the company could live with stricter Net neutrality regulation if applied …

Imagus in action. Nicole Cozma/CNET On social media, the larger version of an image is usually just a click away. However, if you’re shopping on a site like Amazon, once you click it’s easy to get distracted by other recommended products. It’s similar to what happens if you read Wikipedia and get wrapped up in vaguely connected topics. As an …

Matt Elliott/CNET If you are not vigilant about keeping your iPhone photo library in check, it can quickly spiral out of control. It can be painfully slow to go through the Photos app, tapping on photo after photo to select a group to delete. With Purrge, you can delete photos faster, with less tedious tapping and more swiping. The app …

Leslie Katz/CNET Congrats to Nagi M. of Oakland, Calif., for winning a Sphero Darkside Ollie app-controlled robot in last week’s giveaway. The CNET crew’s back from CES 2015, and, as always, bearing lots and lots of swag. In this year’s bag of goods straight from the CES show floor, you’ll find an Izzi Remix 5-in-1 sturdy lens case for the …

Clear your weekend, because you’re about to get really busy playing games, listening to tunes, configuring a universal remote and more. Yep, it’s another five-deal Friday! Because sometimes one deal just won’t do… 1. What’s in a name? Blumoo Let’s address the elephant in the room: Blumoo is just a terrible product name. If you can overlook that, though, you’re …

More Chinese locations will soon join this Apple retail store in Beijing. Apple Apple’s growth plans in China are heating up. The tech giant plans to open five new stores across the country over the coming five weeks, Xinhua, the Chinese government’s news agency, reported Thursday. Those will be on top of the 15 Apple stores already there. “We are …

Google may be making another push in mobile payments. Marguerite Reardon/CNET Google may be stocking its war chest to compete with Apple in mobile payments. The Internet giant is reportedly in talks to acquire Softcard, a company that helps people to pay for things using their mobile devices, according to reports by TechCrunch and The Wall Street Journal. The deal …