Motorola Mobility President Rick Osterloh (right), in a chat with columnist Walt Mossberg, says “You’re going to see our share really rebound.” Shara Tibken/CNET HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — Motorola President and Chief Operating Officer Rick Osterloh isn’t afraid to invite comparisons between his company and Apple. But it’s not with any of their competing …

Jason Cipriani/CNET Apple Pay is arguably the most straight-forward mobile payment solution we’ve seen thus far. Tim Cook announced it has seen over 1 million users activate a card on the service in the first 72 hours — more than the number of users who signed up for all similar services combined. Yet with its ease of use, and simplistic …

Ricoh Ricoh’s Theta is a slim stick of a camera that, with a single press of its shutter release, captures the entire scene around you — top to bottom — in one shot, creating fully spherical images using its proprietary ultra-small twin-lens optical system. The shots, which can be viewed and played with on a Windows or Mac computer, or …

Greg Joswiak, Apple vice president of iPhone, iPod and iOS product marketing (right), chats with Walt Mossberg (center) and Ina Fried at the Recode mobile conference. Shara Tibken/CNET HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — The Apple Watch hasn’t even launched yet, but it’s going to be “huge” when it does, predicted an Apple marketing executive. Greg Joswiak, vice president of iPhone, …

The new MDM features for Office 365 will be available in the first quarter of 2015. Microsoft Microsoft is building a subset of the mobile-device-management (MDM) features it provides with its Intune service into Office 365 for free. Microsoft execs unveiled the addition of the MDM service for Office 365 at the kick-off keynote during Tech Ed Europe in Barcelona, …

Adobe Adobe has made a post on its website clarifying its position in the Gamergate debate after ambiguous actions last week. The company had requested gossip website Gawker remove the Adobe logo, which indicated that the company was a Gawker advertiser, from its website. As Adobe explained in a Tweet at the time, it was not a Gawker advertiser — …

Matt Elliott/CNET The developer calls it the world’s first camera calculator. I call it a valuable tool for a parent helping with his kid’s math homework and attempting to remember grade-school arithmetic or middle-school algebra. With PhotoMath, you can simply snap a picture of a math equation and it instantly delivers the answer, while also providing step-by-step instructions on how …

Josh Miller/CNET The Amazon Fire Phone is now on sale in the UK, locked to O2. O2 is the only network offering contracts on Amazon, for the Fire Phone and a range of other smartphones. O2 is the first network to offer phones and contracts from Amazon, including 3G and 4G contracts and pay-as-you-go and pay-monthly deals. Amazon started in …

Chinese mobile devices maker Xiaomi is many things, says former Google executive Hugo Barra who this month celebrates his first anniversary as vice president of the Beijing-based company. But it’s no copycat. “I think it’s great that Apple took existing ideas that were very good and added their design twist on top,” said Xiaomi vice president Hugo Barra. “That’s what …

Sony’s new PS4 update adds new voice commands and much more. Sony/screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Sony PlayStation 4 owners should get set for a major update. Due out on Tuesday, version 2.0 of the game console’s software carries with it a variety of new features, improvements and other surprises. In a blog posted on Monday, Sony promoted the update as …

FireEye chart shows why the company’s analysts think that APT28 is Russian government malware. FireEye Malicious software designed to steal sensitive information from businesses and foreign governments is made in Russia and supported by the Russian government, a security research firm reported Tuesday. The group behind the malicious software, or malware, has been identified as APT28 and has links to …

Honor is a new mobile phone brand from Chinese manufacturer Huawei. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Shall we do the honours? Huawei has launched a brand new brand of mobile phones, called Honor, starting with the Honor 6 smartphone . But why does the Chinese manufacturer need a new name? It’s all about convincing phone fans to feel the quality, says one industry …

Now playing: Watch this: Guess who’s discovered the joys of Candy Crush — ex-Sony… 2:37 A half-year after Jack Tretton stepped down as head of Sony’s PlayStation division in America, he has time to do something he didn’t have a chance to before: play Candy Crush Saga and Clash of Clans. To devout PlayStation fans, this could be considered a …

Sony executive Andrew House announces the company’s virtual pay-TV service at CES 2014. Sarah Tew/CNET The Federal Communications Commission is considering rule changes that could guarantee that Internet video providers have the same access to premium programming as cable and satellite TV providers. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed rule changes on Tuesday regarding so-called “over-the-top” Internet video services such as …

Now playing: Watch this: Upgrade RAM on your MacBook Pro 3:16 Welcome to Mac Mondays! Each Monday, the team at CNET How To will go 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 …