Now playing: Watch this: Remove scratches from your Apple Watch 2:42 Just two weeks into wearing the Apple Watch, and my timepiece was smothered with micro-scratches. Like any piece of stainless steel jewelry, scratches are completely normal. But also like any piece of stainless steel jewelry, if you’re not happy with scratches, there’s a way …
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Sarah Tew/CNET It’s been almost one year since Android Wear debuted on several mostly forgettable smartwatches. So where are we now? We now have half a dozen or so Android Wear watches, a lot of apps, and few people who seem compelled to actually buy one. Google’s annual developers conference, I/O, is scheduled to kick off on Thursday, May 28, …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET Unlike a traditional watch, when you first power up the Apple Watch, the task of setting the time doesn’t exist. The Apple Watch merely duplicates the time on your iPhone, and that’s that. Or is it? It may be a bit buried in settings, Apple has included the option to set a custom time on your Apple Watch. …
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The page on the left is mobile friendly; the one on the right not so much. Microsoft Bing is following in Google’s footsteps by encouraging websites to offer mobile-friendly versions. In April, Microsoft added a “mobile-friendly” tag to certain websites found through its search engine, Bing. The goal is to alert users that such sites offer versions designed for better …
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Australia’s new Border Force will now have access to metadata on all Australians. Australian Customs and Border Protection Service Facebook The Federal Government this week has given its newly formed Australian Border Force the power to access metadata stored under Data Retention laws, in what has been labelled as the first example of “scope creep” under the scheme. In March …
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Apple should have another quarter of strong iPhone sales, says one analyst. Sarah Tew/CNET iPhone 6 demand could trigger yet another stellar quarter for Apple. iPhone sales to customers may reach as high as 51.1 million units for the April to June quarter, which would be Apple’s third fiscal quarter for 2015, UBS analyst Steven Milunovich said in an investors …
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Kim Dotcom blames Hollywood studios for the digital piracy problem. Bloomberg Kim Dotcom, the outspoken founder of the defunct cloud-storage locker MegaUpload, says he views Hillary Clinton as an enemy of online freedom. Dotcom, currently under house arrest at his New Zealand mansion, expressed that opinion during a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg reporter Emily Chang. Dotcom is fighting extradition to …
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Daniel Zhang, who took over as Alibaba’s new CEO on Sunday, plans to make Alibaba more of a global player. Getty Images Alibaba wants to go global in a big way. Days after taking the helm as the company’s new CEO, Daniel Zhang told employees Wednesday he’s making international growth Alibaba’s primary mission in the coming year. “We must absolutely …
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The Apple Watch may be especially vulnerable to theft. Sarah Tew/CNET Apple’s new smartwatch apparently lacks the same security offered by the iPhone, which tries to dissuade robbers from snatching the device in the first place. Up for sale since April, the Apple Watch is the company’s first wearable device geared to compete in a growing landscape of smartwatches and …
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Matt Elliott/CNET The Apple Watch provides quick access to your 12 favorite people — or the dozen people with whom you are most frequently forced to interact. Whatever your reason for including them in the Friends screen, you can choose who gets listed and in what order. Pressing the side button on your Apple Watch calls up the Friends screen, …
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