If passed, the GOP bill would ban broadband providers from blocking, slowing down or speeding up access to certain websites and keep broadband as a lightly regulated Title 1 service of the Communications Act. Republican lawmakers in both the House and Senate introduced on Friday draft legislation they claim will protect Net neutrality without reclassifying …

A new iPad Air with 32GB has rarely been cheaper. DailySteals It probably goes without saying that I have mixed feelings about the Apple iPad. On the one hand, it’s awesome. The styling and design, the user interface, the huge variety of accessories — it all adds up to what I consider the single best tablet experience you can have. …

Matt Elliott/CNET Google Maps for iOS was updated this week, bringing the usual bug fixes and a handful of new features. When you are using the app to get directions, you can now select your starting point and destination by tapping on the map instead of needing to know the exact address. When choosing either a starting point or a …

Chat Heads on Mac. Jason Cipriani/CNET Remember Facebook’s Chat Head feature? When enabled, small circles containing the avatars of your contacts would show up on the screen of your Android device atop all other windows. (iOS users were able to use the feature for some time, but the Messages transition put an end to that.) The feature made it possible …

The company is adding more prepaid options. T-Mobile T-Mobile is rejiggering its prepaid plans. Starting January 25, T-Mobile will launch Simply Prepaid, which starts at $40 per month for unlimited data, talk and text. T-Mobile is also offering $50 and $60 plans. The difference among the plans is the amount of 4G LTE data that comes with each. The $40-per-month …

This iPhone is higher than a kite. Much, much higher. Video screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET I’m sure I’ll eat these words one day, but it seems that we’ve finally witnessed an iPhone drop test that can’t conceivably be topped. We’ve seen iDevices dropped from planes and stuck in molten lava, but the below video of an iPhone 6 descending from …

eZelleron Inc. With most mobile chargers, you’re lucky to be able to recharge your phone two or three times before the charger itself needs recharging. And to do that, you need to find an AC outlet, fish out your AC adapter and cable, then wait a couple hours. Kraftwerk is a mobile charger that solves both these issues. It can …

Google bought Nest, co-founded by Tony Fadell, for $3.2 billion last year. Stephen Shankland/CNET Tony Fadell has an impressive track record: He helped turn Apple’s iPod music player into a cultural icon, then he kick-started consumer interest in smart-home technology with his Nest Internet-connected thermostat. Now, Google’s asking him to oversee its Glass project. The company on Thursday said Fadell …

Adobe Lightroom Mobile for Android allows you to edit and share your pictures, but you need to subscribe to Creative Cloud. Adobe Time for some developing news: the Adobe Lightroom mobile app is now available for Android. Install the app and you can edit, organise and share your photos from your smartphone, then sync online with your full-sized Lightroom software …

My first Facebook profile photo.Ed Taylor I sensed a disturbance in the social-media force. Something was happening in the feed. Time began to warp, the years draining away like Zuckerberg had pulled the plug on the great online bathtub of information that is Facebook. My friends were getting younger. There’s a hot trend romping through Facebook where people go back …

BlackBerry hopes its Classic phone will find an audience in India. Josh Miller/CNET In an attempt to boost sales for its Classic smartphone, BlackBerry is taking it to India. The new Classic is now available through the online store Snapdeal at a price tag of 31,990 Indian Rupees (roughly $518), the Times of India reported. Swapdeal and BlackBerry will try …

Intel’s earnings today suggest some life left in the PC business. Sarah Tew/CNET The personal computer isn’t back — not yet anyway — but it’s not dead either. The changed fortunes of the once downtrodden PC could be seen front and center in Intel’s latest earnings report, issued Thursday. The company wrapped up a solid 2014 by announcing its first …

Could an LG G3 successor make an appearance at Mobile World Congress? Josh Miller/CNET LG’s successor to the LG G3 , which we’re guessing will be called the LG G4, could pack a 16-megapixel wide angle camera on the rear. That is, according to rumors emanating from Greek website Techmaniacs. Related Links Editor’s Take: LG G Flex 2 LG concept …

Re Camera with an Android device as a viewfinder. Jason Cipriani/CNET Last fall HTC released the Re Camera, a small periscope-looking device. Adorning the outside of the portable camera is a wide-angle lens and two buttons. It’s always ready for a spontaneous shot, without the fuss of framing and lining up the shot with a screen or viewfinder. It’s fun …

Marriott has backed off blocking personal Wi-Fi — for now. Hotel chain Marriott said in a statement Wednesday that it will stop preventing customers from using personal Wi-Fi hot spots and charging them fees to use Marriott’s Wi-Fi network instead. The decision comes just three months after Marriott was fined $600,000 by the Federal Communications Commission for using “containment features …