Tapping on a map in Google Maps for Android, then scrolling to the bottom of the screen, will reveal an option to cache the map for offline. screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET A day after users complained that the overhauled Google Maps app for Android made it hard to store maps for later use offline, Google …

The much-touted mobile wallet has yet to catch on with a majority of consumers. But dollars generated by mobile payments continue to rise. Payments made via a mobile phone will surpass $1 billion in the U.S. this year, research firm eMarketer said Thursday. That’s more than double last year’s figure of $539 million. Peering into the future, eMarketer predicts that …

T-Mobile is shaking up the wireless industry yet again with a new device upgrade program announced Wednesday that is supposed to make it easier for its customers to upgrade to new devices. The company’s CEO John Legere said during a press conference in New York City, where the new plan called Jump was unveiled, that it’s all about giving customers …

At its developer conference this week in San Francisco, cloud storage giant Dropbox announced a few new developer tools, called Drop-Ins, that create a link between Dropbox and any app or online service. The first Drop-Ins are called Saver and Chooser. True to their names, Chooser lets you choose and import your Dropbox files into other apps, and Saver helps …

The HTC One has only been on sale for a few months, but a new version of it is rumored to be coming before year’s end. And next year, that will be followed by an HTC One 2, if you will, said to be codenamed the HTC M8. There are also rumors of a plastic version of the currently metal-shelled …

So long, Alfred. It’s been nice knowing you. Google has informed users of its Alfred local-recommendations mobile app that the time has come for the helper to retire as of July 19. Users who have liked places that they want to take with them must request their data from Google by tomorrow. Alfred was the brainchild of developer Clever Sense. …

Microsoft is planning a new version of both the Microsoft Surface and Surface Pro tablets alongside Windows 8.1 and the Xbox One. Microsoft’s plans for the foreseeable future, spotted by The Verge, include updates to both the Surface, which uses the tablet-friendly Windows 8 RT software, and the Surface Pro, which uses full-fat Windows 8 so you can install programs …

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The Nokia Lumia 1020 has been officially unveiled, and O2 and Three are the first British networks to confirm they’ll sell the 41-megapixel camera phone this year. O2 says it will offer the Lumia 1020 “later in the year”, while Nokia promises it for the UK “this quarter”, which means September at the latest. The new phone goes on sale …

It hardly seems worth having an event. Nokia’s new 41-megapixel Lumia 1020 camera phone has been so extensively teased by the company itself, and leaked all over the Internet, that we’d be extremely surprised if there were any surprises at this afternoon’s launch. Nevertheless, CNET will be there in New York with bells on from 3.45pm UK time. We’ll bring …