Channel 4 has pulled all its full-length episodes of its TV shows from YouTube. If you want to watch shows like Fresh Meat in their entirety, you’ll have to head to 4oD to do so. All shows from More4 and E4 have been taken down too. But Channel 4 isn’t ditching YouTube altogether. You can …

Strewth! Australian company Kogan has announced one of the most wallet-friendly 4K tellies yet. The Kogan 55-inch UHD TV has a resolution of 3,840×2,160 pixels — that’s 4K to me and you — yet costs just AUD$999, which is £546 in real money. That’s unbelievable value for a set that packs four times as many pixels as a standard HD …

Here be dragons. The first trailer for season 4 of Game of Thrones has appeared on YouTube, giving our first glimpse of the bloodsoaked misery to come. Hooray! Such is the anticipation surrounding the series, the video has been watched more than 2 million times since it went live last night. Watch all 103 seconds here: My main impression is …

An online quiz set up by British bookmaker Ladbrokes has found that iPhone users are quicker to answer problems correctly than other smartphone users. (Credit: Apple) It’s possibly the silliest rivalry of our age, but that doesn’t stop some smartphone users declaring their superiority over others. An online quiz set up by a betting firm may not provide a definitive …

Fiber-optic broadband is becoming less of a rarity. Subscriptions to the high-speed networking service grew 13.9 percent from June 2012 to June 2013, according to newly released statistics from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which monitors economic trends in North America, Europe, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Turkey, and some other developed countries and regions. That growth means …

LAS VEGAS — The Chromebook has found a niche. CES made this clear. Toshiba announced its well-designed Chromebook at CES, and Dell unveiled its models a few weeks before the event. Chromebooks were also front and center at Intel’s large CES booth. And Lenovo told CNET that it plans a big Chromebook push this year. Hewlett-Packard is already a big …

T-Mobile and Sprint made some big announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week that on the surface look like they could save wireless subscribers big bucks. But a close look at these plans reveals that they aren’t for everyone. And while it’s true some people will get a good deal out of these new plans, not …

What were the top three most used phones in 2013? The iPhone 4S, the iPhone 5, and the iPhone 4, according to an Actix study that tracked communications between mobile devices and carriers’ mobile networks. But Samsung is the clear rival: its Galaxy S3, S2, and S4 claimed the fourth, fifth, and sixth places, respectively, according to figures that Actix, …

LAS VEGAS — Apple isn’t the only one looking to shove a fingerprint sensor onto its smartphone. There will be several high-profile smartphones that will include fingerprint scanners, according to Michael Maia, vice president of sales for the biometric division of touchscreen and touch pad company Synaptics. Its product will ship in the first quarter, and more phones should come …

These days I do most of my reading on my Kindle Fire, and whenever possible I grab e-books from my local library. Because, you know, they’re free. If you’ve never checked out a book this way, or you’re still doing it the “old way,” you may be surprised to learn it’s quite easy. You don’t need to download a file …

Amazon’s Kindle Fire lineup is on sale once again. David Carnoy/CNET Amazon has unveiled yet another Kindle Fire sale — but this one won’t be around for long. As of Thursday, consumers can trim $30 off the price of any Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Fire HD 8.9, Kindle Fire HDX, and Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 tablet by using the promo …

A new update to Google Play means Android games can now begin to offer turn-based multiplayer modes via the store’s built-in gaming system — a real boon for strategy fans looking for a quick fix on the bus. Asynchronous multiplayer, as it’s known, means you can play turn-based games — think chess — without needing a continuous connection. You just …

Nokia’s updating all the Lumia phones you can buy in the UK, all at once. The update, codenamed ‘Black’, brings a boatload of new features to your Windows Phone and is rolling out today. The biggest change is the addition of app folders (pictured above), so you can keep groups of similar apps all together, just like in iOS and …

There is no spoon — but the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo seems to be a real thing. This photo, snapped by an anonymous tipster for the SamMobile fan blog, shows a very slightly smaller Note 3 side by side with the real thing. Deja vu, or a glitch in the Matrix? Screenshots and benchmarks obtained by the leakster appear …

Consumers searching for the 32GB version of the Noka Lumia 1520 can now find it through AT&T. The 1520 is available through AT&T’s Web site and retail stores in a matte black color. The phone runs $250 with a two-year agreement and $640 without a contract. Buyers who opt for AT&T’s Next installment plan pay either $24.62 or $32 a …