April, 2017

• 28 April

  Everything Acer just announced, from new hybrids to gaming laptops

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Acer announces a new beastly Predator 1:16 Acer’s annual global press conference was held, April 27 in New York. The recorded stream of the event is at at the top of this page, and a list of newly announced products is below. Acer makes a wide range of popular laptops, desktops, …

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• 27 April

  Samsung is top dog in smartphone sales once again, says IDC

  

  Samsung is back on top. Even before the Galaxy S8 went on sale, the Korean electronics giant took back its place as the No. 1 smartphone maker, ahead of Apple, according to IDC’s quarterly report on smartphone market share. Samsung dominated the charts at 22.8 percent. That was despite the disastrous setback of its worldwide Galaxy Note 7 recall, which …

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• 27 April

  Facebook: Law enforcement requests for user data up 9 percent

  

  Requests for Facebook user information from law enforcement agencies around the world increased by 9 percent in the last half of 2016, the company reported Thursday. The figure came as part of Facebook’s global government requests report, which it puts out twice a year. In total, law enforcement asked for user information 64,279 times, compared with 59,229 requests from the …

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• 27 April

  Kickass Torrents to be blocked Australia

  

  Kickass Torrents will be blocked across Australia by the end of next month. But in an online world where new piracy sites pop up every other day, how much will this affect the worst pirates in the world? The Australian Federal Court today ordered a group of more than 20 Australian ISPs, representing the majority of the Australian industry, to …

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• 27 April

  Razer’s new gaming mouse cuts the cord, keeps the performance

  

  The Razer Lancehead could change your opinion on using a wireless mouse for gaming. Available in the May/June timeframe, the $150 mouse (approximately AU$200 or £120) uses a proprietary 2.4GHz wireless technology that lets the Lancehead automatically hop frequencies within the band to maintain a lag-free connection with your PC. Razer claims that it will outperform every other wireless gaming …

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• 27 April

  Reactions and new camera effects are coming to Facebook Lite

  

  Facebook Lite is beginning to look more and more like its big brother. The social networking giant today introduced new features from the original Facebook app to Facebook Lite, according to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. These include India-specific camera effects and the Reactions feature. The plans were originally announced at A Place to Connect, an event Facebook held yesterday. India …

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• 27 April

  BlackBerry KeyOne keyboard phone sells May 31, comes to Sprint this summer

  

  K-e-y-b-o-a-r-d. That’s the main difference between the BlackBerry KeyOne, which has just acquired a North America release date, and every other Android phone. The QWERTY phone goes on sale May 31 in both the US and Canada, with preorders for Canadian carriers revving up May 18 (it’ll cost CAD $199 for a two-year contract). In the US, the KeyOne will …

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• 27 April

  Get a set of sport Bluetooth earphones for $9

  

  CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Enlarge Image Muscles not included. Jelly Comb Quick note: My apologies for the confusion yesterday over that folding keyboard. The vendor didn’t correctly …

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• 27 April

  Head trip: The experience of broadcasting an NBA game in VR

  

  In a flash, it seemed Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green was about to come crashing into me after blocking a shot from behind. Moments later, I saw Green on the run, lobbing a basketball for an alley-oop to teammate JaVale McGee, who appeared from out of nowhere for the slam, ultimately helping the Warriors win their April 4 game …

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• 27 April

  Apple’s competitor to Venmo could be on the way

  

  Apple wants a piece of Venmo’s market. The iPhone maker held talks recently with payments companies in hopes of introducing its own money-transfer service akin to PayPal’s Venmo, according to a report Thursday from Recode. The new peer-to-peer payment service, which could be coming later this year, would reportedly allow iPhone owners to send cash digitally to other iPhone owners. …

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