Now playing: Watch this: AT&T’s Modio case gives your Wi-Fi iPad 4G LTE 0:49 LAS VEGAS–For anyone looking to take a Wi-Fi-only iPad on the road, AT&T has it covered. AT&T’s Modio case offers extra battery capacity and an LTE connection. AT&T The Dallas-based telecommunications provider on Tuesday unveiled the AT&T Modio Case, designed to …

HTC’s One M8 handset. CNET Mobile handset maker HTC had a strong end to 2014, helping the company post its first year-over-year gain since 2011. During the fourth quarter of the year, HTC’s revenue hit NT$47.9 billion (about $1.5 billion), topping the NT$42.9 billion the company posted during the same period last year, HTC announced on Tuesday. The year-over-year revenue …

Now playing: Watch this: In Depth: CES 2015 Day one 17:50 CES has finally opened its doors to the public, boasting a record 3,600-plus exhibitors and 2.2 million square feet of exhibition space across three distinct areas — Tech East (at the Las Vegas Convention Centre), Tech West (covering everything from 3D printing, health products and wearables) and the new …

Apple’s Beats is being sued by Monster, which partnered in development of the high-end headphones. Josh Miller/CNET Audio equipment maker Monster has filed a lawsuit against Apple’s Beats Electronics, claiming that the high-end-headphone maker’s co-founders allegedly conspired to sever the headphone line from Monster before Apple bought the company last year for $3.2 billion. In a complaint (PDF) filed Tuesday …

Now playing: Watch this: The Airwolf 3D AW3D HD-R 3D printer can print lots of… 1:09 LAS VEGAS — Now that you can 3D-print your own food , the next step is naturally to print your own outfit. That’s exactly the possibility what Airwolf 3D had in mind coming to CES 2015. The 3D-printer vendor showed off a full-size outfit …

Under Armour already has launched a fitness tracker called Armour39. Under Armour Smartphone maker HTC announced Tuesday it is partnering up with athletic equipment company Under Armour to bring cutting-edge technology to athletes. The mobile company will design a series of products to work in conjunction with Under Armour’s fitness apps and website. “Mobile innovation has completely changed people’s lives …

LAS VEGAS — Intel is packing a lot of punch in a much smaller package. Intel’s tiny Curie chip. James Martin/CNET Intel CEO Brian Krzanich unveiled Curie, a button-size chip that includes a processor, Bluetooth low-energy radio, sensors and a dedicated engine to determine different sporting activity. It’s also able to run for extended periods with a coin-size battery, or …

WhatsApp, one of the the world’s most popular messaging services, is still rising in popularity. The company, whose app is used by people around the world to send texts without paying carrier fees, said 700 million people now use its app each month, up from 600 million in August. Users are sending 30 billion messages per day, WhatsApp CEO Jan …

Powermat technology, pushed by the PMA, is already available at select Starbucks. Starbucks LAS VEGAS–Two down, one to go. Two of the three major groups involved with wireless charging technologies, the Alliance for Wireless Power, or A4WP, and the Power Matters Alliance, or PMA, said on Monday that they have agreed to merge into one organization with the intent to …

No longer just an iOS product, the Livescribe 3 will soon work with Android. Livescribe LAS VEGAS — When it comes to scribbling notes, especially when you’re standing, there’s still no substitute for pen and paper. Of course, this being the digital age, that pen better be smart enough to convert your notes to an electronic format and sync them …

The R7000 Smart Wi-Fi router from Netgear. Dong Ngo/CNET LAS VEGAS — Netgear’s best router — the Nighthawk AC1900 Smart Wi-Fi Router R7000 — will soon get even better. The network vendor announced today that it will release a new firmware update that adds support for Netgear’s ReadyCloud feature to the R7000. This means users will soon be able to …

Now playing: Watch this: This is the USB you’ve been waiting for 0:50 LAS VEGAS — At CES 2015, folks at USB Implementers Forum and Intel showcased a quick, yet impressive, demo of what USB 3.1 Type-C is capable of. If you haven’t heard of USB Type-C, I laid out its details here. To quickly recap, apart from the fact …

Samsung talks TVs, fridges and ovens at CES 2015. James Martin/CNET LAS VEGAS — Samsung on Monday showed off its latest TVs and home appliances as it attempts to maintain its leadership position in home electronics. The Korean company has large ambitions: it sells more televisions and mobile devices than any other rival in the world, and it aims to …

Samsung’s new mammoth 105-inch 4K TV can flex its display at the push of a button. Sarah Tew / CNET LAS VEGAS — Samsung has been No. 1 seller of televisions around the world for the last nine years — and it’s keeping that lead even as the industry moves into ultra-high definition sets. The company announced onstage at its …

Ericsson forecasts that growing smartphone use means mobile networks will cope with an eightfold increase in traffic from 2014 to 2020. Ericsson Ericsson expects that 4G smartphones will be able to download data three times faster later this year with a little help from wireless spectrum usually used by Wi-Fi, the company announced Monday. The Finnish firm sells network equipment …