Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET In Windows 10’s File Explorer, the Favorites section you know and love (maybe) has gotten a makeover. The new Quick Access is similar in principle to the old Favorites section — it’s a place where you can pin your favorite files for, well, “quick access” — just with a few added features, …

Sunrise’s popular cross-platform calendar app was a hit among users thanks to smart design and support for various services. Sunrise Satya Nadella celebrated his one-year anniversary as head of Microsoft with yet another app acquisition. This time, the software giant has scooped up popular mobile and desktop calendar app Sunrise for more than $100 million, according to a report from …

The Galaxy S5’s successor could start out with a meeker chip, if rumors are right. CNET A new chip could be all it takes for Microsoft’s next flagship Lumia smartphone to outperform the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy S6 ‘s internal hardware. Related Stories Samsung’s chief of mobile marketing steps down at crucial time Four things we learned from Samsung’s Q4 earnings …

Verizon is hoping some extra data and a few discounts will lead to better customer loyalty. Verizon is offering a few more carrots to customers. Sarah Tew / CNET The nation’s largest wireless provider will pack an extra 1 gigabyte of data into its More Everything plans that range from 1GB to 3GB, or $40 to $60, a month, the …

Apple, which hasn’t updated its Apple TV hardware in years, may be working on a Web-based pay TV service. Apple Apple’s long-awaited TV service may finally be getting a jolt — but the product still may not be available anytime soon. The company is in talks with TV programmers about offering a Web-based pay TV service, much like Dish’s Sling …

Prezi Everybody likes to make fun of PowerPoint, but when it comes to expressing your ideas, making your pitch, and so on, the slide deck remains one of the most effective tools. That said, PowerPoint isn’t exactly free, and I suspect most seasoned users would agree it hasn’t evolved much over the years. What if you want to integrate, say, …

Apple iOS 8 is now at home on almost three-quarters of all iOS devices measured by Apple. Based on the latest stats offered by Apple’s App Store Distribution page, iOS has reached an adoption rate of 72 percent, leaving iOS 7 with 25 percent and older versions with 3 percent. The latest number for iOS 8 is up from the …

iPhone clones made from cheap components and a skinned-up version of Android made to look like iOS are nothing new, but one of the latest iPhone 6 knock-offs out of China could be one of the first that’s actually a better phone than the one it imitates — at least where some key specs are concerned. The Dakele 3, also …

How can three skiers race each other down the same hill at the same time when they’re hundreds of miles apart? With Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets, a smartphone app and a 4G LTE connection, that’s how. Described as a “mixed reality” race, this contest pits real-life skier Vegard Engen — known as Dr V — against online gamers wearing …

Apple’s iPhone 6 (center), flanked by the Moto X and Nexus 5. Sarah Tew/CNET Apple’s iPhone 6 helped propel the company’s mobile operating system to the top spot in the US in the fourth quarter, new data from research firm Kantar Worldpanel shows. For the first time since the fourth quarter of 2012, Apple’s iOS was No. 1, topping Google’s …