iPhone 6 Plus supply has almost caught up with demand. Sarah Tew/CNET Those of you who order the 16GB or 64GB version of the iPhone 6 Plus via Apple’s online store now have a shorter wait before the phone reaches your doorstep. As of Thursday, Apple’s website showed a ship time of one business day …
Read More »
CNET An attempted class action lawsuit charging Google with antitrust violations may be on shaky ground unless the plaintiffs can provide more details. On Thursday, a hearing over a lawsuit filed by two smartphone users against Google took place in a San Jose, Calif., federal court. The purpose of the hearing was to determine if the suit should move forward …
Read More »
Flavio Gonzalez Vazquez’ Camera FV-5 app for Android 5.0 lets photographers take raw photos with Nexus 5 or Nexus 6 phones. Stephen Shankland/CNET For more than a decade, photographers using traditional cameras have been able to get higher image quality by “shooting raw.” The new Android 5.0 brings that ability to mobile-phone photographers, with software support now arriving. Raw photos …
Read More »
In 2014, people registered about 3.6 million domains using hundreds of new addresses like .berlin, .pizza and .florist. NTLDstats In 2014, the renaming of the Net has begun in earnest. A dramatic liberalization of the Internet address system means that people can set up websites and email addresses ending in .photography, .london, .gift, .beer and .restaurant. And since they started …
Read More »
Before the holidays, wireless carriers slash prices on hot smartphone models — making them a tempting buy for anyone looking for a gift. But do smartphones really make good gifts? On Black Friday this year, retailers were offering jaw-dropping deals on some of the most sought-after smartphones on the market. For example, the latest Samsung Galaxy S5 could be had …
Read More »
Samsung ChatOn? ChatOff, more like — Samsung is killing its WhatsApp-rivalling instant messaging service. Samsung told CNET today that ChatOn will be discontinued on 1 February 2015 everywhere except the US. It will then shut down in the US at an unconfirmed date soon after, with the delay due to “existing contractual obligations with US mobile carriers.” The 12 most …
Read More »
Many celebrities have fewer followers today on Instagram. Instagram A purge of fake users of photo-sharing service Instagram has shed light on which celebrities were really popular on the site. Earlier this week, Instagram started removing what it called spam and fake accounts from its service, leaving some of the most popular people on the service — including big-time celebrities …
Read More »
The roaring whir of a helicopter’s blades chopping through the air. A quartet of smartphones with digital googly eyes. An in-car navigator that warns of speed traps. These made up some of the sights and sounds of a trip to Samsung and LG’s respective offices in and around Seoul, South Korea. Below are some of the smartphones I met and …
Read More »
Google Google Cardboard is Google’s dirt-cheap, increasingly popular virtual reality “headset.” Street View is Google Maps’ virtual tour of zillions of different locations. Light bulb! A new feature (actually, an Easter Egg, according to Google) in the Google Maps app turns Street View into Google Cardboard View, effectively letting you roam the streets of wherever in full VR mode. You’ll …
Read More »
Geoffrey Morrison/CNET Ah CES, the most exciting event in consumer electronics. I’ve written so many snarky articles about CES that I’m out of snark. Snarkless. Sans snark. Bereft of snark. This isn’t to say I’ve given in and joined the fanboys, just that…I don’t know, it’s a thing that happens, you know? All that aside, I do actually think this …
Read More »
Microsoft is trimming the price of this HP Pavilion 2-in-1 PC by $130. Microsoft Those of you looking for a 2-in-1 tablet/notebook can save a bit of money on an HP Pavilion courtesy of Microsoft’s latest promotion for its 12 Days of Deals. Available at Microsoft’s online store as of 5 a.m. PT and at its retail outlets when they …
Read More »
Uber has agreed to suspend operations in Portland while new taxi rules are created. Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images Uber has agreed to suspend its operations in Portland, Ore., for three months while city officials revise rules governing taxis and the use of ride-sharing apps, the company announced Thursday. As part of the agreement, Uber will pause its operations on Sunday …
Read More »
AirDroid’s Android app. Josh Miller/CNET This year, iPhones gained the ability wirelessly communicate with Macs, thanks to Continuity, a feature in iOS 8 and Mac OS X Yosemite . Now Androids can do the same thing with the help of third-party app AirDroid, which recently got a major update to version 3.0. The update brings really neat new features that …
Read More »
The BlackBerry Classic , as its name implies, is a throwback to the company’s glory days. But the smartphone plays an important role in BlackBerry’s future. BlackBerry hopes the Classic will drive interest and adoption of the company’s services and software. Josh Miller/CNET Wednesday’s BlackBerry Classic event kicked off like most other phone launches: a video played to hype up …
Read More »
John Falcone/CNET “You know, Fox turned into a hard-core sex channel so gradually, I didn’t even notice.” Marge Simpson’s observation isn’t true quite yet, but today FXNow has turned into a streaming channel on Roku. Roku owners who cried “D’oh!” when the app appeared first on Apple TV (gaining Bart, Lisa and family a month or so later) can now …
Read More »