BlackBerry CEO John Chen speaking at an event at Mobile World Congress in late February. Brian Bennett/CNET BlackBerry may be hit by quarterly losses for at least another two years, according to one analyst’s crystal ball. In an investors note released Monday, Canaccord Genuity’s Michael Walkley said he was impressed with BlackBerry’s cost-cutting moves but …

Jason Cipriani/CNET Beyond the native integration with RunKeeper, the Pebble lineup doesn’t offer much in the way of fitness or health apps. And with more manufacturers starting to emphasize those features, it only makes sense that Pebble owners will want to know how to turn the current smartwatch into a healthy smartwatch. As such, I’ve rounded up four apps currently …

Monitoring your heart rate is seemingly becoming a staple for upcoming activity monitors and smartwatches. The Pebble lineup of smartwatches currently lacks this capability, but that hasn’t stopped a developer from creating a companion app for the watch. The app is called Pebble Heart Rate and requires both an iPhone app ($1.99 in the App Store) and a free Pebble …

Ed Rhee/CNET Remember the good old days of ripping CDs? Well, the UK will soon allow its citizens to do just that without any fear of reprisal. Starting June 1, UK consumers will be allowed to make personal copies of media they own, the country’s Intellectual Property Office announced recently. The discs should be used for “private purposes such as …

Foxtel Play has been available on the Xbox 360 for some time now, but PlayStation 3 owners can now get in on the action. (Credit: Sony Australia) The Foxtel Play app can be downloaded from the PlayStation Network for the PS3. As always, Foxtel Play is a month-by-month subscription, with no lock in contracts and the use of the Go …

The Samsung PNF8500 from 2013, distinctive O’Keeffe-esque stand and all, will continue to be sold through 2014. Sarah Tew/CNET Last year the superb Samsung PNF8500 series of plasmas was our third-favorite TV overall for picture quality, losing out to Panasonic’s VT/ZT series by a nose. Now that those two are gone, never to be replaced, the 8500 is top dog …

Amazon Amazon sent out invites for a press event for this Wednesday, and all signs point to this being the release of the long-rumored Amazon streaming video device. There has been speculation of an Amazon streaming device since about a year ago, but the recent flood of rumors seems to indicate that it may finally be on its way. Here’s …

An obvious benefit to the Pebble app store are the ideas developers come up with for the smartwatch. As it stands now, the Pebble doesn’t include any native activity tracking features. Naturally, developers have taken advantage of this and are attempting to fill in the holes. One such app is called Morpheuz. The free app works independently of your smartphone, …

BlackBerry seems to be having some trouble getting consumers to move across to the BlackBerry 10 operating system. BlackBerry CEO John Chen speaking at an event at Mobile World Congress in late February. (Credit: Brian Bennett/CNET) In fact, of the 3.4 million phones the company sold in the fiscal fourth quarter of last year, only 1.1 million were BB10. The …

Yesterday, here on CNET Geoffrey Morrison‘s article, ” Music Multitasking: How background listening enhances life,” put me through some changes. He said a lot of things I think are just plain wrong, but I’ll start with this, “I don’t understand people who don’t listen to music all the time. I listen while I’m working. I listen in the car. I …