Now playing: Watch this: Cat B15 is a rugged smartphone 3:26 LAS VEGAS–Caterpillar’s Cat B15 Android smartphone is the newest entrant to the U.S.’ rough and ready durable phone tussle. I got my hands on the B15 this past March when it first appeared on the world stage at Mobile World Congress. This U.S. variant …

Amazon’s great TV commissioning experiment has picked new TV shows for its Lovefilm streaming service, with John Goodman-starring political satire Alpha House and Silicon Valley sitcom Betas set for full series online, Reuters reports. Meanwhile, zom-com Zombieland, a follow-up to the Woody Harrelson movie of the same name, has taken an axe to the brainbox after fans panned it. “I’ll …

The original “Spears and Munsil HD Benchmark”, released in 2009, offered some excellent patterns to help setting up TVs, and ingenious test patterns to judge the performance of deinterlacers and scalers. Though anyone could buy it, it wasn’t as entry-level or as user-friendly as “Disney’s World of Wonder” setup discs. The updated second edition adds myriad new setup patterns, and …

Now playing: Watch this: Pocket Filmmaker: making great holiday pocket films 4:10 Welcome back to CNET Australia‘s guide to pocket film-making. The Pocket Filmmaker, Jason van Genderen, will be showing you how to turn the smartphone in your pocket into a camera capable of shooting video projects that are worthy of sharing with family and friends, online and even with …

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 is on target to surpass the 10 million units shipped mark sometime this week, according to Samsung co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun. (Credit: Samsung) Speaking to journalists at an industry function in Seoul, Shin noted that the S4 has beaten all previous shipment records for the manufacturer. “Samsung spent 50 days to pass the 10 million sales mark for …

ORLANDO, Fla. — When Frank Boulben joined BlackBerry a year ago as its chief marketing officer, he found a company whose reputation with the public was in shambles. To make matters worse, its marketing strategy was in complete disarray. Each country or region had their own version of a BlackBerry campaign, complete with different agencies and creative processes. Even within …

BlackBerry has managed to regain some lost market share in its home country of Canada. In a research note to investors on Thursday, Raymond James analyst Tavis McCourt reported that while BlackBerry’s market share was just 6 percent in Canada in the fourth quarter of 2012, it jumped to 13.5 percent in the first quarter of 2013. The analyst believes …

SAN FRANCISCO–Google Glass currently comes in five colors and has a pop-in sunglass visor, but no version of the Explorer Edition comes with prescription lenses. For glasses-wearers like me, that means getting contacts or jamming them over my frames. Next year, that may change. Google Glass testing prescription prototypes (pictures) +1 more See all photos You had to look closely …

Starting Friday, Samsung will sell the second version of its NFC stickers, called TecTiles 2. Related stories NFC TecTiles: An introduction Can Samsung make NFC tech happen? Not with TecTiles Samsung: TecTiles a warmup for mobile payments The main difference between these tags and the first iteration, which launched almost a year ago? Unlike the originals, the second TecTiles generation …

Now playing: Watch this: Galaxy S4 Google Edition explained 3:42 On Tuesday, when Google’s Vice President of Android Product Management Hugo Barra told a crowd of nearly 6,000 attendees that the online giant would be releasing its own variant of the critically-acclaimed Samsung Galaxy S4, many broke out in applause. Not only would the top-tier device sport all the same …

Android 4.3, the next update to Google’s world-conquering mobile software, will come out on 10 June, according to Android and Me’s Taylor Wimberly. Wimberly went hands-on with the heavily tipped but so far unannounced white version of the Nexus 4, and whichever unnamed Google-related bod had the snowy blower revealed that 4.3 will start rolling out next month. That’s all …

Now playing: Watch this: iOS 7: The features it needs 3:38 The next major update of Apple’s iOS software is almost upon us! But which features does Apple’s grid-based operating system desperately need to add, and which ones will Tim Cook and pals probably ignore completely? That’s what we’re asking in this video, so hit play on the clip above …

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 is on pace to easily surpass its predecessor’s sales record, Samsung Electronics co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun said Thursday in an interview. Speaking to the Korea Times, the co-CEO said that Samsung’s Galaxy S4 will sell through 10 million units next week, making it the fastest-selling smartphone in the company’s history. Shin told the Korea Times that the Galaxy …

Samsung is poised to have flogged a whopping 10 million Samsung Galaxy S4 smart phones, according to a report that also claims the S4 is selling much faster than last year’s Galaxy S3. Company boss JK Shin said that Samsung’s newest smart phone will hit the 10 million milestone next week, Korea Times reports, with the company head honcho quoted …

Sprint’s network will soon receive a much-needed boost in some Midwestern cities like Chicago and St. Louis, Missouri. The wireless carrier announced on Friday that it finished inking a deal with regional service provider U.S. Cellular, which is based in the Midwest. As part of the $480 million agreement, Sprint will gain a total of 30MHz of PCS spectrum, which …