Nicole Cozma/CNET Google+ Collections allows users to start categorizing their posts, photos, and videos by topic. Collections differ from Pages or Communities, in that you are the only person modifying the content, and the posts will appear in your profile stream for followers. This feature is currently available for the Web, Android, and iOS. To …

CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Enlarge Image Look, ma, no thumbs! Lazy-Hands Before you laugh, before you scoff, hear me out. The Lazy-Hands is a finger-loop gripper thingie you stick to the back of your phone, tablet, or …

Enlarge Image Hello Code e.U. Learning a programming language is an intimidating experience. The terminology, semantics and rules can be to beginners. I know, I’ve tried to learn several times only to give up. Javvy is a new app made by the same team behind Swifty. Both apps are designed to make learning a programming language, in this case Java, …

The Moto X Pure Edition is Motorola’s standard bearer for 2015. Josh Miller/CNET Just when you thought we were done with new Motorola smartphones for 2015, another device has landed on our rumor radar. According to Twitter source @upleaks, the Moto X Force will reportedly make its debut some time in December — with a “shatterproof” build. Whether this is …

Enlarge Image Xiaomi achieved quick success with its smartphones. Aloysius Low/CNET Xiaomi has managed to take a big bite out of Apple’s market share in China thanks to its Mi line of smartphones. Now, four years after its inception, the Chinese smartphone powerhouse looks to bring the fight to Apple in the laptop market. According to a Bloomberg report out …

Enlarge Image The Moto 360 comes in a variety of colors and materials and two sizes. Sarah Tew/CNET Motorola’s smartwatch head start has long since dissipated. When Motorola launched its Moto 360 a year ago, it turned heads as the first smartwatch that felt like a watch — one that employed premium materials such as a leather strap and a …

Now playing: Watch this: Change Spotify streaming quality settings to save data 0:42 If you have your Spotify, or any streaming service, running for hours a day, your monthly mobile data limit could be getting a workout. Here’s two tips on slowing things down when you’re on the road so you don’t burst your data cap wide open.

Gazelle says it will beat the trade-in deal offered by Apple or your carrier for your old iPhone. But you’ll still want to shop around. CNET Gazelle, which offers cash back for trading in your used electronic devices, is offering a new, limited-time deal in which it’s vowing top dollars for your existing iPhone. Running from now through September 9, …

Enlarge Image Intel’s Kirk Skaugen talks up the company’s new Skylake processors during an event at IFA in Berlin. Shara Tibken/CNET BERLIN — Intel on Wednesday officially took the wraps off its new Skylake processor family and showed off computers that use the chips. More than 800 systems will be launching around the world starting Wednesday, said Kirk Skaugen, senior …

Acer took to IFA Berlin to push a full lineup of new gaming rigs, Chromebooks, convertible notebooks, desktops and monitors, kicking things off with the company’s Predator gaming product line. The company was joined at the conference by its sponsored e-sports team, TeamAcer, whose members provided early customer feedback, as well as research and development for the following products. Acer’s …