T-Mobile on Friday sent out invites to a mysterious New York event, saying cryptically “This one’s a real piece of work.” The invite-only press event is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET on Wednesday, March 18 at Manhattan’s Spring Studios. T-Mobile, which recently made the case that it’s the nation’s third-largest wireless carrier by subscriber base, …

Eddy Cue, Apple’s head of Internet software and service (left), and Rick Welts, president and chief operating officer of the Golden State Warriors, talk up their new partnership on Apple Pay at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif. Shara Tibken/CNET OAKLAND, Calif. — iPhone 5, 5C and 5S owners, you’re in luck. Just like those iPhone 6 and 6 Plus owners, …

The Apple Watch is the first wearable from the company behind the iMac, iPhone and iPad. CNET App-makers are hard at work building apps for the Apple Watch in top-secret conditions that would make Maxwell Smart jealous, according to a new report. Behind those closed doors, Apple is offering guidelines on how Watch apps should work and suggesting that wearers …

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is now paying Alibaba to attract Chinese consumers. James Martin/CNET E-commerce giant Amazon has, at least for the time being, decided that joining them is sometimes better than trying to beat them. This week the company opened its own digital storefront on rival Alibaba’s Tmall, an online marketplace for consumers in China, which hosts merchant’s storefronts …

Nike Nike on Friday announced four new hardware partners for its Nike+ health and fitness app. Watches, activity trackers and fitness equipment from Garmin, TomTom, Wahoo Fitness and Netpulse will be able to sync with the Nike+ Running App on Android and iOS beginning on March 9. The move to open the platform will give Nike+ users the freedom to …

Nuance Communications Congrats to Daniel G. of Slidell, La., for winning last week’s giveaway prize, a Cycliq Fly6 bike taillight with a built-in HD camera. Tired of all that typing? Check out this week’s prize. We’ve got version 4 of Nuance Communications’ speech recognition software Dragon Dictate for Mac. This version promises better accuracy than its predecessors, and also transcribes …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple’s $10K gold Watch on the wrist 1:58 It might just be another smartwatch to some, but to Apple, its Watch is clearly meant to be more than a “wearable.” At its announcement in September 2014, the company said the Apple Watch would be available in three different collections: an entry-level aluminum-and-glass Watch Sport, a midrange …

Apple gold is a little more magical than normal gold. In an interview with the Financial Times, Apple Watch designer Jony Ive says Apple’s gold is twice as hard as standard gold. And Bloomberg reports the apps made for the smartwatch are being tested in a secret lab. But the secrets will be revealed Monday at Apple’s event, starting at …

Google For any Gmail user who owns an iPhone or iPad, there’s a decision to be made: Use Apple’s stock Mail app, or switch to Google’s Gmail app? If you’ve been on the fence, this may swing the pendulum toward the latter: Gmail 4.0 for iOS brings three welcome new features to iPhones and iPads, most of them designed to …

The Galaxy S6 Edge has wireless charging built in. Juan Garzón/CNET BARCELONA — Samsung Electronics has broken the ice when it comes to wireless charging. That’s according to Thorsten Heins, chief executive of Powermat, the company behind one of the key wireless charging standards. He said the standard will come packed into any future Samsung smartphones capable of wireless charging. …