Jawbone, maker of the popular Up24 fitness tracker, has just launched two new pieces of mobile software coded to foster better sleep. Called Up Coffee and Up 3.1, one keeps an eye on your caffeine intake, while the other strives to correlate personal physical movement with sleep performance. To be clear, the Up application isn’t …

Apple Apple and Google are tops in the mobile space, according to new data from research firm ComScore. Apple was the No. 1 smartphone manufacturer, with its iPhones capturing 41.6 of the US market during the three months ended January 2014, said ComScore. That figure is an average of the three months and bests the 40.6 percent average Apple posted …

Six months on from its well-received launch, Sony’s zhuzhed up its top-notch Z1 with the Xperia Z2, one of the highlights of Mobile World Congress last week. Phones 4U has pumped out some deals on this sharp new blower, starting at £47 per month for a free handset. That’s on a two-year Vodafone contract with 3GB of data on its …

The tablet market is shifting into a more mature phase, and that figures to be a good thing for Microsoft. Market researcher IDC on Thursday forecast a dramatic slowdown in the expansion of the worldwide market for tablets, with the growth rate simmering at 19.4 percent in 2014, down from a sizzling growth rate of 51.6 percent last year. The …

The Wello doubles as an iPhone case and health monitor. Azoi Your iPhone may be able to play doctor with help from a $199 case. Made by consumer-electronics company Azoi, a smartphone case called Wello aims to measure a range of vitals, including your blood pressure, electrocardiography (ECG), heart rate, blood oxygen, temperature, and lung function. Azoi claims the measurements …

T-Mobile CEO John Legere Lori Grunin/CNET T-Mobile is offering its customers a free data upgrade. The company announced Friday that it is doubling the amount of data customers can use per month on its standard 4G LTE service plan for no additional cost. So instead of getting 500MB of data per month at the full 4G LTE speed for $50 …

Credit: Orangeornate/Shutterstock With Three up and running in London, and even Giffgaff set to offer 4G in the next few weeks, 4G has hit the mainstream in the UK. Most new smartphones are 4G-capable, so if you’re shopping for a new contract, which networks have the best deals? Let’s have a look. Value for money I’m going to look only …

WeTransfer There are a number of ways — e-mail, text, iCloud, Photo Stream, Dropbox, and social networking to name a handful of popular options — to share iPhone photos. There are also a number of ways — email, text, iCloud, YouTube, Vimeo, and social networking to name a few — to share iPhone videos. There may not be an easier …

The device may complement Samsung’s Heart Rate Monitor band. Sarah Tew/CNET Samsung is working a new, unannounced product through the regulatory process. The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday published files submitted recently by Samsung showing details on what the company is calling an “activity tracker.” The product number doesn’t match up with any fitness devices shown off so far this …

Joan E. Solsman/CNET Samsung is taking on Apple’s iTunes Radio, as well as Pandora, Spotify, and a host of other companies in the competitive streaming music business, but it picked an innocuous name to do it. Milk Music, launched Friday and available now in the Google Play store, is Samsung’s latest foray into a music service, this time a streaming …