Foxtel Foxtel has “formalised plans” to offer the Foxtel Play IPTV subscription service as a native Xbox One app, but don’t hold your breath just yet — the company will only say that the service will go live in “the coming months”. Play allows Foxtel to offer a broad range of on-demand and live channels …

Pebble My wrist has been busy of late. At various times, I’ve worn a Cogito Pop, Martian Notifier , Striiv Touch, and, most recently, a Moto 360 . They’re all varying degrees of “meh.” The only smartwatch I’ve genuinely liked (warts and all) is the one that started it all: the Pebble. It normally sells for $150, but for a …

Nicole Cozma/CNET With so many services in the cloud and many desktop apps having mobile counterparts, it’s easy to carry your Android tablet as both an entertainment and productivity device. While having the full screen dedicated to one task is favorable, sometimes you need the help of a second app to get the job done. Instead of relying on the …

The iPhone 6 (left) and the 6 Plus CNET Apple’s new iPhone 6 could finally land in China at the end of next week. Picked up by Chinese website Techweb, an alleged internal Apple memo to retail store employees alludes to “prototype” iPhone 6 units going on store shelves starting Tuesday, October 7, according to MacRumors. That memo also indicates …

Matt Elliott/CNET Apple’s walled garden has driven many iPhone users to the waiting arms of Google’s more open platform where users and developers have greater freedom to customize the Android experience. With iOS 8, Apple has introduced extensions to let third-party developers access core features like the keyboard and camera. There are a number of different types of extensions for …

When malicious programs are using your Chrome browser to collect data, serve you ads or cause overall sluggishness, there’s a quick way to find out what’s causing the issues. Google recently published the Software Removal tool for Windows that will scan for software that is causing issues with the browser. Google explains the tool, Think of this as a “factory …

CNET Cameras aren’t just a smartphone feature now: they’re practically the killer app. As phone camera quality keeps accelerating, upgrading to a new phone can often be a question of, “Is the camera worth spending more for?” There are plenty of flagship phones with cameras worth comparing head-to-head, but for now, we wanted to dive into a simple comparison: How …

It may not quite be up to epidemic status, but several cases of people walking into Apple Stores and bending the demonstration models of the iPhone 6 Plus have come to light. There are no pockets involved and no iPhones that are personal possessions. It’s just people strolling in and destroying display devices. The bent aluminum body of the iPhone …

The Blackphone is a mid-tier Android-powered smartphone in terms of hardware, but it comes with nine services designed to protect your privacy. Seth Rosenblatt/CNET It might seem like security roulette to test the Blackphone at a conference full of hackers, but what better place to gauge the Android-based smartphone’s claims of being extra safe? After three days of toting the …

Image by Cameron Adams, CC BY-ND 2.0 Telstra will begin a trial of its nation-wide public Wi-Fi network this November, installing Wi-Fi hotspots in busy public hubs and in its network of payphones across Australia. As a sweetener, Wi-Fi access at the 1,000 hotspots will also be free in advance of the network’s official launch early next year. The soft …

Cypher CEO John Walker, right, and Vice President John Yoon test out their company’s noise-reduction technology. Steven Tregeagle, courtesy of Cypher In the race to add more capabilities into a smartphone, often what gets neglected is the actual phone part. With the speaker and microphone shrinking down and packed in with computer chips, cameras and sensors, voice quality hasn’t improved …

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Waze has enhanced its popular crowdsourced navigation app with tweaks designed to improve the accuracy of its maps. Updated on Monday for both Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems, Waze version 3.9 unveils a feature called Waze Places. In short, the feature lets you add your own places to the maps. You can add or …

Lenovo Lenovo will finally close a deal that will make it one of the largest players in the x86 server market, boosting its ability to win business customers. The Chinese company announced on Monday that it will officially begin closing the acquisition of IBM’s x86 server business on Wednesday, October 1. IBM’s x86 server lineup includes those powered by Intel …

The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. CNET Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus may still be hard to come by in China, but the price of the smuggled devices is already falling dramatically, according to a new report. Entrepeneurs in China who managed to get their hands on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus units have slashed prices in …

Potentially patching a big hole in Chrome OS, Adobe Systems and Google on Monday announced Project Photoshop Streaming, a version of the photo-editing software that works on either the browser-based operating system or the Windows version of Google’s browser. Chrome OS is based on Google’s Chrome browser, so it’s only able to run Web apps. Because of that, software like …