Move your receipts to the cloud with apps like Evernote. Photo by Nicole Cozma/CNET Editors’ note, November 26, 2014:This How To post was originally published on April 23, 2014, and has been updated to include new information. Some receipts don’t offer much information at all — like those from individually owned gift shops or gas …
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Moving beyond e-book subscriptions, startup Oyster will now sell digital titles outright in a bid to rival Amazon. Oyster Oyster, a subscription service for e-books that launched a year and a half ago, is expanding into online retail with an e-book store set to spar with Amazon’s. Until Wednesday, Oyster only sold consumers a subscription book service for $9.95 a …
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UPDATE: DJI has announced the Phantom 3 drone. Read CNET’s hands-on coverage for more detail. DJI, maker of the popular Phantom quadcopters for aerial photography, is holding concurrent invite-only events in New York, London and Munich on Wednesday, April 8. The company posted the cryptic video above to tease the event, but has otherwise been tight-lipped about what’s coming. CNET …
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HTC is launching the HTC One M9+ to Chinese consumers. HTC HTC will launch a bigger and beefier version of its upcoming M9 phone in China. But don’t get too excited if you live in North America or Europe. Announced Wednesday in a blog post, the HTC One M9+ offers a 5.2-inch screen with 2K resolution and is powered by …
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Enlarge ImageAround 100 apps will be available at launch with many more on the way. CNET The Apple Watch won’t be available to the public until April 24 (preorders start Friday, April 10), but there are are already a good handful of apps for it. During my review period, I’ve accumulated 50 apps on my Apple Watch: some pre-loaded, others …
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Sarah Tew/CNET What is a smartwatch, and what can it do? The Apple Watch arrives in a landscape filled with things for your wrist. How does it stack up? Great in some ways, and not so wonderfully in others. Let’s look at the closest competition and see. Pebble Watch My personal favorite, the Pebble, is lean, mean and cheap. A …
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Spring cleaning month is coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean you should stop optimizing the tech in your life. Gmail can be a source of stress if you don’t have a good system in place for responding to email, or the ability to easily locate contact information. Fortunately, these changes are just a few clicks away. Here’s seven …
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Will the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge be joined by a third variant? Josh Miller/CNET Samsung will offer yet another version of its Galaxy S6 smartphone, this one dual-SIM cards, according to photos allegedly leaked online. Pictures of the purported phone snagged by blog site Phone Arena show a device with two SIM card trays. The device itself is a …
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Global Fashion Group appeals to fashion-seekers. Global Fashion Group One of the leaders in Amazon’s European operations has left the e-retail giant to run a fashion company that’s now flush with cash. Romain Voog, the former Amazon France president, has been appointed CEO of Global Fashion Group, the company announced Wednesday. In his new role, Voog will be in charge …
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Outlook.com appears to be malfunctioning. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Having trouble with your Outlook.com account this morning? You’re not alone. As of 9:34 p.m. PT Tuesday, some type of technical glitch has been affecting Microsoft’s Outlook.com email service and various email clients. The company has acknowledged the problem on its service status page and has been promising to fix it: …
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