April, 2017

• 5 April

  Bonus

  

  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. Like any good mystery writer, I often start my daily-deal posts at the end and work backward. In …

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• 5 April

  Pebble update will keep watches ticking indefinitely

  

  If you have a Pebble smartwatch, you’ve probably been worrying about how long your timepiece will keep working after Fitbit‘s acquisition. To address those concerns, Pebble has issued an update for the iOS and Android versions of the app that ends smartwatches’ dependency on Pebble’s cloud services. That means when Fitbit eventually shuts down Pebble’s servers, the devices will continue …

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• 5 April

  Twitter releases MLB streaming schedule after losing NFL deal

  

  With Twitter striking out on streaming NFL football, it’s now shifting its focus back to baseball. The social network on Wednesday released its schedule of live-streaming Major League Baseball games in April. The action starts this Friday as the defending World Series champion Chicago Cubs take on the Milwaukee Brewers. The weekly streams are part of a deal Twitter struck …

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• 5 April

  AT&T adds free HBO to Unlimited Plus plans

  

  In the wireless war to win you over, AT&T may have just found its nuclear weapon: free access to “Game of Thrones.” The carrier said Wednesday that customers who subscribe to its “Unlimited Plus” plan will get HBO thrown in at no extra cost. Customers with an AT&T DirecTV or U-Verse TV account will get the premium channel added to …

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• 5 April

  10 tips and tricks to get the most out of Samsung Health

  

  Samsung recently renamed its S Health app as Samsung Health and added the ability to video-call doctors directly within the app. The new name and feature were announced alongside the Galaxy S8 ($180 at eBay) at the end of March. With the company’s renewed focus on healthy living, there’s no better time to give Samsung Health a try. Here’s what …

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• 4 April

  How to set up a backup phone

  

  Well, it happened. Your phone is lost. Or broken. Maybe even stolen. And because your entire life is contained in that thing, now you’ve got problems. Your passwords — gone. Contacts, gone. Trip details, appointment calendar, photos from the wedding, that book you were reading — all gone. Thankfully, you planned ahead. Nearly all your data is synced to the …

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• 4 April

  Roaming sucks. This Handy travel phone could rescue your bill

  

  Google Maps, online flight check-in, access to TripAdvisor and Yelp on demand — there are a thousand ways the internet makes traveling more convenient and fun. You know what’s not so fun? Roaming bills. It’s a problem Hong Kong-based Tink Labs is trying to solve by putting custom-made phones with free data in hotel rooms across the world for foreign …

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• 4 April

  Get a Star Trek Schematic Illuminated Display for $29.99

  

  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 Want want want. ThinkGeek Can we get our geek on for a minute? I love me some “Star Trek.” Like, not …

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• 4 April

  March Madness app sets livestream record

  

  Looks like national champ North Carolina isn’t the only big winner. The NCAA said Tuesday fans watched a record 98 million livestreams of the men’s college basketball tourney on the March Madness Live app. That’s a 33 percent increase compared to last year when more than 74 million tuned in to watch all 67 tournament games on 15 different platforms …

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• 4 April

  ​Microsoft Sprinkles app copies Facebook by copying Snapchat

  

  Enjoy putting funny stickers and comments on your photo then sharing it with your friends? You’re probably using Snapchat to do it, but if you want to branch out, Microsoft‘s new Sprinkles app offers a new option. The app, for iPhones right now, tries to figure out what’s in the photo then come up with apt witticisms and attach stickers …

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