AT&T continues to press its strategy of getting people to switch to a plan in which they pay for their own device. AT&T will allow you to spread your payments for a smartphone over 30 months now. Roger Cheng/CNET The Dallas telecommunications giant on Tuesday unveiled a new 30-month installment plan for smartphones. It will …

Matt Elliott/CNET Welcome to Mac Mondays! Each Monday, the team at CNET How To goes in-depth on ways you can improve your Mac. We’ll talk performance upgrades (for old and new models), hardware hacks, and workflow tips. This is where you’ll go to find out how to release your Mac’s potential and make the most of your purchase. Despite repeatedly …

Acer Acer is joining the small but growing list of companies pitching laptops with 4K resolution displays. The new Ultra HD version of the Aspire V Black Edition has a 15.6-inch screen with a 3,840×2,160-pixel resolution, paired with a high-end CPU and a discrete graphics card for serious PC gaming. Lenovo sells a very similar system, the Y50 , and …

Sprint may follow T-Mobile’s footsteps and drop subsidies, according to CEO Marcelo Claure. Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure isn’t done shaking up the company. Troy Thomas/Sprint During an investor conference call on Monday, Claure said he is mulling elimination of phone subsidies next year. The No. 3 wireless carrier, which earlier reported a fiscal second-quarter loss of $765 million, has been …

The Nexus 9 is the first device to offer the Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system. Josh Miller/CNET Tablet buyers looking for the new Nexus 9 can now purchase the Wi-Fi version on Google Play. The Nexus 9 is available in black or white, with the 16GB edition selling for $399, £319 or AU$479, and the 32GB version for $479, £399 …

The Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, with its curved screen. CNET In rock music, the Edge is the watch-cap-wearing guitarist for U2. In smartphones, the Edge is the latest curveball that Samsung is bringing to smartphone design. Samsung said Monday its big-screen Galaxy Note Edge smartphone will be available in the US starting November 14. The electronics giant unveiled the new …

Nicole Cozma/CNET Setting up a new Android device can be quite an inconvenience if you have to reinstall apps individually. If you have root access, you can take advantage of an app like Titanium Backup, which will bundle your apps and settings to make the transition easier. However, for those who are not rooted, Google has developed a solution with …

Samaritans Social networks are powerful tools for data collation. We’ve seen Australia’s Black Dog Institute launch a tool that scans millions of Tweets daily for a real-time global map of our emotions; even a tool that scans for profanity. The major difference between those and a new web app — called Samaritans Radar — launched by UK suicide prevention charity …

A dizzying array of promotions by Sprint helped slow customer defections, but the company continued to sink into the red. Sprint’s results show that there’s still a lot of work to be done at the company. Lynn La/CNET The Overland Park, Kan., company posted a fiscal second-quarter loss of $765 million, or 19 cents a share, on revenue of $8.5 …

Nicole Cozma/CNET Editors’ note on November 4: The latest version of the Gmail app is now available on Google Play. The newest version of the Gmail app features auto-updating email threads, the ability to add accounts from other email providers and Exchange support. This means that you’ll no longer need to use two separate apps to access your email. Want …

Mozilla plans to release a new version of its Firefox browser on Nov. 10 that’s designed to make life easier for the developers who build the Web. “We’ve redesigned the browser by looking at it through a completely new filter to put developers’ interests first,” the nonprofit organization said of the plan Monday, which is taking place in conjunction with …

Verizon Wireless and AT&T don’t agree on much, but both sides are willing to work together when it comes to the next-generation of wireless voice technology. AT&T The two largest wireless carriers in the nation said on Monday that their respective services would work together, and are targeting interoperability between the two by next year. Voice-over LTE is considered the …

On the streets of London you can’t throw a scone without hitting a dozen museums. One, though, isn’t on the streets. It’s below. The Churchill War Rooms are actually two museums in one. The Cabinet War Rooms are an underground complex where the businesses of government and war were conducted in relative safety beneath steel, concrete and stone. The other …

The Apple Watch may lie dormant all winter. James Martin/CNET The Apple Watch purportedly won’t crop up until spring. Angela Ahrendts, Apple’s senior vice president of retail and online stores, reportedly spilled the time frame in a video message to company employees — an alleged transcript of which was shared with 9to5Mac by an anonymous source. In the transcript, Ahrendts …

Samsung ‘Ello ‘ello ‘ello, what’s all this then? Police in Yorkshire are ditching notebooks for Notes, with the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 cutting out the paperwork to put bobbies back on the beat. West Yorkshire police has ordered 4,000 Note 3 mobile devices to record information while fighting crime. The Note line is Samsung’s range of phablets, with the Note …