Now playing: Watch this: New Nexus 7 brings on HD 1:46 Last year’s Nexus 7 kicked off the small-tablet movement and predated the iPad Mini, with an aggressive price and comfortable design, but a set of features that were slightly bare-bones (no rear camera). The iPad Mini offered a deeper feature set, but the new …

Best Buy might not be making Google too happy this morning. The big-box retailer on Wednesday posted two new product listings for the new Google Nexus 7 hours before the search giant is expected to unveil the device at its special event with Android chief Sundar Pichai. Catch our live blog from Google’s 9 a.m. PT event — preshow starts …

Roku has announced the launch of Sky News on its Roku streaming platform with both live broadcasts and on-demand content directly on TVs. Related stories Got a Streaming Device? You Need to Change These Settings ASAP Best Soundbars for 2022 Best TV for 2022: Top 10 Smart TVs From Budget to High-End The service delivers live 24-hour news coverage to …

Sony DVD recorders all over the country have stopped being able to receive Freeview channels following a software update on Friday. People owning the borked devices have written to the BBC to complain they can’t watch or record anything on Freeview. And now Sony has acknowledged the problem on Twitter, as well as on its own forums. I’ve contacted Sony …

Looks like YouView is having a good year. TalkTalk handed out 160,000 YouView boxes between April and June, an increase of around 40 per cent on the total number of YouViewers in just three months. Announcing its financial results today, TalkTalk reveals it has dished out 390,000 YouView boxes, all told — quite the feat considering up until the end of …

Google today announced a $35 streaming-TV dongle called the Chromecast, and everyone promptly went nuts. The product sold out almost immediately. For a while, the Chromecast coverage was the most popular content on CNET — surpassing interest even in the newly announced (and very promising) Nexus 7 tablet. Headlines from Business Insider (“Google announced a brand-new Apple TV-killer…”) and the …

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said Tuesday at the Fortune Tech Brainstorm conference in Aspen, Colo., that the company is thinking about offering more than on-demand private drivers. That’s why Uber has dabbled this year in delivering on-demand roses, helicopters, and ice cream trucks. Uber is an app for both iPhone and Android smartphones that enables users to request a ride …

Leaked pictures alleged to show the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 have surfaced, giving us a glimpse at a prototype of the new Note. Or should we say… wait for it… a Note-otype. Huzzah! The pictures were leaked to Techkiddy. Even if real, they’re unlikely to show the finished design of the Note 3, as Samsung takes great pains to disguise …

AT&T reported on Tuesday a slight increase in revenue for the second quarter of 2013, as the company continued to boost sales in wireless. AT&T said that for the quarter ending June 30, its consolidated revenues totaled $32.1 billion, up 1.6 percent compared with the same quarter a year ago when it reported revenue of about $31.58 billion. Analysts had …

Already widely known as one of the best third-party keyboard apps available on Android, SwiftKey today adds a suite of new features called SwiftKey Cloud to its beta build. For those who aren’t familiar with SwiftKey, the app sets itself apart from its competitors by bringing scary-smart predictive technology to the Android keyboard. The more you use it, the better …

When Apple unveiled the Lightning connector last year, it created a problem for anyone who owned a speaker dock with a 30-pin connector: new iDevices couldn’t connect. C4 Electronics’ Dolry HiFi Stone solves that problem by turning those old docks into AirPlay speakers, able to connect wirelessly to iPhones, iPod Touches, iPads, Macs, and even a handful of Samsung devices. …

The LG G2 will be unveiled in New York on 7 August. Could it beat the next iPhone to be first phone with a fingerprint scanner? Last week LG confirmed the name of the G2 — and that it will be LG’s Android flagship — but we’ll have to wait another two weeks to find out the full details. The G2 …

AT&T’s claim to be the nation’s “most reliable network” is misleading and par for the course for the company, according to a key Verizon Wireless networking executive. “They have misled the public in the past,” said Mike Haberman, head of network solutions for Verizon Wireless, when asked about his initial reaction to AT&T’s ad. “I thought, ‘Here we go again.'” …

Now playing: Watch this: Hands-on: The new Droid Maxx and Droid Ultra 2:21 Verizon Wireless and Motorola are getting exclusive with their relationship. Starting with the Droid Ultra lineup, Motorola will be the only smartphone manufacturer to build Droid smartphones, Verizon marketing executive Jeff Dietel told CNET on Tuesday. Verizon unleashes three new Droids Motorola’s Droid Maxx lasts long and …

Sales of Google Android smartphones outpaced sales of the Apple iPhone at AT&T in the second quarter, as the No. 2 wireless carrier looks for more efficient ways to make a profit in the competitive wireless business. During the company’s second-quarter conference call Tuesday, Ralph de la Vega, AT&T’s head of wireless, said Google Android devices had accounted for the …