Fitbit’s three new trackers will all be in Australia soon. Sarah Tew With the Fitbit Charge already available in Australia, two new fitness wearables from Fitbit are making their way into local retail. The Charge, Charge HR and Surge mark Fitbit’s renewed push for 2015. These are the first new trackers from the company since …

Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET This happens to me often, especially when I’m visiting relatives’ houses: My computer knows the Wi-Fi password from when I last connected to the network — two years ago — but I’ve completely forgotten it, though my mother is about 65 percent sure she wrote it down on a Post-it note seven months ago. A forgotten Wi-Fi …

Qualcomm’s booth at CES 2015, filled with robots, wearables, VR goggles, a car and plenty more. Sarah Tew/CNET LAS VEGAS — The brightly colored Qualcomm booth at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show packed in a panoply of gadgets: There was a red-dragon robot, a blue connected car with Qualcomm’s logo splashed across the hood and disembodied mannequin hands in glass …

President Obama says he wants to expand access to affordable high-speed Internet, no matter where they live. Andrew Harrer — Pool/Getty Images President Barack Obama wants more Americans to have access to affordable broadband, no matter where they live. The president will deliver that message Wednesday from Cedar Falls, Iowa, according to Jeff Zients, director of the National Economic Council …

Telstra Telstra customers across the country have experienced issues accessing the internet today, with the telco facing an “unplanned outage” affecting its broadband and wireless data networks. The issue arose when “planned works” on the power system at one of Telstra’s Sydney data centres caused a power outage, and the centre’s standby power unit also failed. Telstra said it is …

“Community” is the centerpiece of Yahoo’s online video push. Getty Class at Greendale Community College will soon be back in session. The sixth season of “Community,” a cult sitcom that originally aired on NBC, will premiere on Yahoo Screen on March 17. The premiere of the show is a significant step for Yahoo as it tries to fortify its digital …

Luidia, Inc. A few quick housekeeping notes before today’s deal… First, we had some internal issues yesterday that prevented newsletters from going out. If you ever find yourself wondering, “Hey, where’s my daily Cheapskate?”, you can always head right here — cnet.com/cheapskate — or find me on Twitter. Second, now that many of us are spoiled by Amazon Prime and …

For the first time, Uber has agreed to share trip-related data with a city. Uber Though it has been reluctant to disclose trip-related data in the past, ride-sharing service Uber announced Tuesday that it plans to share its data with the city of Boston in the hopes it will help the city improve the transportation landscape. Uber’s so-called “smart data” …

App Annie is going to help its customers better understand the way apps are used. Sarah Tew/CNET App Annie is making it easy for developers and even rival software makers to see how often the public is using an app, potentially upending the way companies discuss their products. The company, based in both Beijing and San Francisco, said Tuesday the …

An iPhone 6 Plus controlling a MacBook Air using Chrome Remote Desktop. Jason Cipriani/CNET Chrome Remote Desktop is hardly a new service from Google. It’s been around for years, allowing users to access a Windows or Mac computer from another computer or an Android device. When it came to this Google service, iOS had been left out. Then on Monday …

Enlarge ImageA couple of upcoming Philips headphones, including the Fidelio M2L, offer a direct Lightning connection to your iOS device. David Carnoy/CNET One of the advantages of Apple’s Lightning port is that it’s bidirectional, meaning that it can be used for charging its host device or have the host device power an accessory connected to it. Until now most of …

Select versions of the HTC One M8 are seeing Android 5.0 Lollipop Sarah Tew/CNET HTC, as expected, has announced the roll out of Android 5.0 for select versions of its One M8 smartphone — specifically, the unlocked and developer editions. Related Links Android 5.0 review Android version report card: How the top phones line up Quickly view your data usage …

A mock-up of the Avegant Glyph, arriving later this year. Richard Peterson/CNET Somewhere between VR headsets and smart glasses, there are “media goggles;” for lack of a better word, headsets that double as mobile displays. These types of things have been lurking around the dark corners of electronics-convention show floors for well over a decade, but thanks to the rise …

Tizen running on a Samsung Z, an as-yet unreleased smartphone. CNET Samsung launched a long-awaited smartphone in India on Wednesday that is powered by Tizen, the electronics giant’s own operating system. Sporting a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 3.1-megapixel rear-facing camera, and 1,500mAh battery, the Samsung Z1 resembles many other entry-level smartphones already on the market. But what differentiates this handset is …

Come March 24, Australians can officially join the 50-million-plus Netflix subscribers in North America, South America and parts of Western Europe. It’s looking like 2015 will be a big year for streaming services locally, with Stan — the Fairfax/Nine Network joint venture — launching, joining established players such as Quickflix and EzyFlix. Netflix, with its library of TV and movies, …