The Sony SmartWatch 3. CNET If you have an Android Wear watch, you can now ditch your phone when you want to listen to some tunes on your next bike ride or run. That’s because a new update to Android Wear lets you play music without having your phone tethered nearby. And if you have …

Now playing: Watch this: Making mobile and desktop work together 1:32 Apple’s OS X 10.10 Yosemite brings its desktop and laptop OS closer to the look and feel of iOS 8. It also includes a bevy of new exclusive features you won’t find on any other OS. At least for now. Here you’ll find every Yosemite tip, trick, how to, …

The Huawei Ascend P7 is helping the company’s smartphone business grow. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Mobile-telecommunications company Huawei saw smartphone shipments jump considerably in the last quarter. Huawei’s worldwide smartphone shipments rose 26 percent year-over-year in the third quarter to land at 16.8 million units, the company confirmed to Reuters on Thursday. Huawei says that roughly 4 million of those smartphones were …

Amazon’s Fire Phone is proving to be a pricey flop. The Fire Phone hasn’t been a huge hit for Amazon. CNET Chief Financial Officer Tom Szkutak disclosed on a conference call with investors Thursday that the company took a $170 million charge related to the write-down of costs associated with its smartphone. The struggle underscores the difficulty of entering the …

Matt Elliott/CNET In its previous iterations, AirDrop let you quickly and easily share files from one iOS device to another nearby, or between two Macs in close proximity. With OS X 10.10 Yosemite , you can can now use AirDrop to share files between iOS devices and Macs. AirDrop is enabled by default on Yosemite. Open Finder and you’ll see …

Tim Cook at the Apple Store in Palo Alto, California. James Martin/CNET Apple plans to open another 25 retail outlets in China over the next couple of years. The goal was voiced by Apple CEO Tim Cook, according to a Chinese transcript of an interview posted by Sina.com, the English version of the site reported on Thursday. The new stores …

New Australian servers will launch before the latest expansion, Warlords of Draenor. Blizzard Entertainment After 10 years, fans had assumed it would just never happen. But last night Blizzard shocked Australian fans with the surprise announcement that Australian World of Warcraft servers are set to go live October 28 in advance of the new expansion, Warlords of Draenor, which launches …

Apply Pay is under way. James Martin/CNET Apple has grand ambitions for Apple Pay. It sees the mobile-wallet system as a replacement for plastic credit cards, a revolution in the way people pay for goods and services. Apple’s heft in the technology space gives it a fighting chance at making a dent in the young contactless mobile-payments market, but it …

Workers at a Foxconn factory assembling Apple products. Apple Foxconn, the major manufacturer that assembles computing devices for companies like Apple and Microsoft, is considering investing in a new factory, a report claims. Foxconn and Zhengzhou government officials in north central China are in preliminary talks over the possibility of investing in a major factory that would focus solely on …

Now playing: Watch this: Markup and Mail Drop 1:25 Mac OS X Yosemite introduces two features that make the Mail app more useful: Markup and Mail Drop. Markup lets you annotate attachments — drawing, adding text, even adding your signature — while Mail Drop assists in the background when you need to send a large attachment. Let’s take a look …

The iPad Air 2 sports a 15 percent smaller battery. Apple says the tablet maintains its 10-hour battery life thanks to its A8X chip and software improvements. iFixit Apple says its flagship iPad Air 2 tablet gets the same 10 hours of use as last year’s original iPad Air, even though a teardown of a Wi-Fi-only iPad Air 2 from …

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook is now available at Barnes & Noble stores. Barnes & Noble/Samsung The Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook now has a larger screen size to go with the grand expanse of its name. The co-branded Android tablet now comes with a 10.1-inch screen option, following on from the 7-inch tablet that kicked off the collaboration …

The iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini won’t have lines like this, for the iPhone 6 in San Francisco. James Martin/CNET Say goodbye to long lines for the newest iPads. There’s no official retail launch date for Apple’s newest tablets, the iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3, which means people won’t be lining up for days. Instead, the devices …

Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET Woo-hoo! Time to call in for a four-day weekend: Simpsons World is now live on the Web and in app form in the FXNow app. Among other things, that means you can watch all 552 episodes (and counting) of the TV series, on-demand, free of charge, pretty much anywhere and everywhere. That’s the first 25 seasons; …

Apple Pay ‘s launch isn’t perfect. Some Bank of America customers were charged twice for purchases. And some apps, like Target, didn’t incorporate Apple Pay in an ideal way. While the double-charge glitch gets fixed, Google launches a brand new app to organize your email accounts. It’s called Google Inbox. And you can give your Google accounts extra password protection …