screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Anyone looking to unload an Android or BlackBerry smartphone can now turn to Apple. The company expanded its trade-in program on Monday to accept certain models of rival phones, including Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone handsets. Your old phone scores you store credit, which you can then use to purchase a …

Image by Nicolas Raymond, CC BY 2.0 After the Federal Government tabled new legislation to allow the blocking of sites facilitating piracy, legal and copyright experts have raised concerns that VPN providers could be swept up in the net. The Attorney-General introduced legislation to Parliament in March which, if passed, would allow rights holders in Australia to seek a Federal …

Voice calling is now available to all WhatApps users. WhatsApp WhatsApp users on Android can now all tap into the app’s new voice-calling feature. Rolled out in February to a small number of people, the call feature then expanded to invitation-only by those who were able to get the feature. Now it’s available to all Android phone users. There’s just …

In an initial trial involving 14 people, the pen improved writing 86 percent of the time, according to the maker of the ARC. YouTube/screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET A new vibrating pen may be the key to improving the writing of people who have Parkinson’s disease. Fashioned by British design firm Dopa Solution, the ARC pen tries to resolve the motor …

Infinit on Windows Nicole Cozma/CNET When you want to share a file with your mobile device, or even another computer, you may use cloud storage to get the job done. While this is a decent solution, it falls short in requiring you to wait for the file to transfer twice (the uploading and the downloading). Additionally, most cloud services have …

Toshiba Is that a one-terabyte hard drive in your pocket, or are you just happy to see this deal? Today only, and while supplies last, Amazon has the Toshiba Canvio Basics 1TB portable USB 3.0 hard drive for $49.99, shipped. It lists for twice as much and sells elsewhere for at least $10 more. As you can see from the …

The LG G3 Vigor brings VoLTE calling to Canada. CNET The LG G3 Vigor isn’t just any midrange LG Android handset. It’s Canada’s first-ever to support VoLTE, or voice-over-LTE, a technology that uses the same network to make voice (and video) calls on the same network that also transfers data. Canadian wireless provider Rogers announced on Tuesday that it started …

Microsoft’s Surface 3 may be too pricey for binging on Netflix and not quite powerful enough to replace your laptop. Sarah Tew/CNET Microsoft has yet to find the one true purpose for its Surface tablets. Are they Apple iPad killers, laptop replacements or hybrid two-in-one computers? That question still applies to the Surface 3, Microsoft’s new $499, 10.8-inch tablet announced …

With Dash Buttons, Amazon hopes to make ordering products even easier. Amazon Nearly two decades ago, Amazon launched one-click ordering, making it easy for customers to buy anything on its site with a simple button-click. Now it’s bringing that technology to the real world. The Web shopping giant said Tuesday it’s launching Dash Buttons, a followup to the Dash remote …

Pick a color, any color! Jason Cipriani/CNET Customizing a smartphone is a easy way to personalize the device we constantly have nearby. And with the new new HTC One M9, and Sense 7, the Taiwanese company wants you to personalize the device until your heart’s content. A new Themes app lets you quickly and easily change everything from wallpapers, to …