Uber has been warned to slam on the brakes in Korea. Uber The city government in South Korea’s capital is reportedly willing to give hundreds of dollars to anyone who will give up Uber drivers operating illegally within the city limits. The Seoul government will give anyone who reports a case of an unlicensed driver …

Sarah Tew/CNET If there’s one Achilles’ heel all portable devices share, it’s battery life. If a gadget runs out of juice, you simply can’t use it again until the battery receives a charge. Period. So what are the best ways to conserve the battery life of your portable devices? There are some universal techniques as well as others that are …

As Uber’s popularity has grown, so have its legal issues. Uber Ride-hailing service Uber can’t seem to catch a break, as more new complaints against the company have cropped up. Authorities in Taiwan and in the China mega-city Chongqing have taken aim at Uber this week, arguing that the company is operating its service illegally. Taiwan’s Transport Ministry said Monday …

Nicole Cozma/CNET Recording videos on your smartphone can sometimes lead to less than desirable results. Perhaps the video is too dark, the colors aren’t quite right, or the picture is too shaky. Google recognizes these issues with videos you upload using Google+ and has a solution for them: auto-enhance. This new ability to enhance videos will not offer the same …

After increasing instability, North Korea’s Internet is said to go down. Dyn Research North Korea’s Internet connection has been touch and go over the last day and now it’s completely shuttered, according to Internet performance analysis firm Dyn Research. “After 24hrs of increasing instability, North Korean national Internet has been down hard for more than 2hrs,” the firm tweeted on …

Jason Cipriani/CNET Android Wear devices have started receiving an update to Android Lollipop. In addition to better notification management, new screen brightness settings and sound profile options, the update also makes it plain simple to take a screenshot on your watch. As I covered when Android Wear first launched, the process for taking a screenshot was cumbersome. You needed to …

No, this doesn’t look odd at all. AirVR Anybody can make a slim, demur smartphone case that doesn’t draw attention to itself. Anybody can make a backup battery that sits discreetly on your desk, recharging your gadgets. It takes a bit of inspired madness, however, to create a phone case that looks like a giant piece of fried chicken or …

Apple Watch, we hardly know you yet. James Martin/CNET Apple needs to reveal more about its new smartwatch if it expects to drum up greater interest among potential buyers, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. Among 968 US iPhone owners recently surveyed by Munster, only 7 percent said they plan to buy an Apple Watch. That number is down …

AT&T has gotten the green light from Mexican regulators for its $2.5 billion purchase of Iusacell, the No. 3 wireless carrier in Mexico. AT&T will be the first US carrier to offer wireless service outside of the US. Josh Lowensohn/CNET Reuters reported Sunday that Mexico’s Federal Competition Commission approved the deal with certain conditions put on the transaction to “avoid …

Apple has again raised the price of the iPhone 6 in Russia. CNET Consumers in Russia can once again purchase Apple’s iPhone 6, but they’ll have to pay more for the privilege. Apple increased the price of the iPhone 6 by 35 percent in Russia, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The 16GB iPhone 6 now costs 53,990 rubles ($978), while the …

Plotagon for iOS comes with a few moviemaking tools but lets you add more. Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET I’ve always said that in my next life, I want to be a filmmaker. Turns out I may not have to wait. Plotagon for iOS puts simple moviemaking tools at your fingertips: actors, sets, noises, and so on. You supply the story, …

Tom Dymond/REX Huawei, Qualcomm and EE have teamed up a successful trial of next generation 4G topping speeds of 410Mbps. Chinese manufacturer Huawei joined forces with UK phone network EE and US chipmaker Qualcomm for the trial of LTE category 9 technology. The trial’s 410Mbps download speeds point the way towards ever-more dizzying data speeds as consumers use their mobiles …

Nicole Cozma/CNET Google Play Books has the awesome feature of storing books on your device so you can read them when you’re offline. This is really useful when you’re traveling — especially on a plane — because you may often lose signal. Unfortunately, when your signal is gone and you want to look up a word, you’re out of luck. …

Android One smartphones will start showing up in Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh soon. Google Android One, the Google-developed platform designed to bring its mobile operating system to developing countries around the world, is expanding outside of India, the company announced Monday. At some point in the next several weeks — Google didn’t provide an exact date — Android One …

We want new tablets in 2015 to gives us new features. Josh Miller/CNET Following a predictable year, tablets won’t have to do much to impress us in the upcoming new year. Since tablet manufacturers laid low in 2014, we expect some fireworks in 2015. By no means do I anticipate astronomical innovations in the category, but, like a Taylor Swift …