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Use your smartphone as a viewfinder, shutter release for the Re Camera

Re Camera with an Android device as a viewfinder. Jason Cipriani/CNET Last fall HTC released the Re Camera, a small periscope-looking device. Adorning the outside of the portable camera is a wide-angle lens and two buttons. It’s always ready for a spontaneous shot, without the fuss of framing and lining up the shot with a screen or viewfinder. It’s fun …

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Marriott removes ban on personal Wi

Marriott has backed off blocking personal Wi-Fi — for now. Hotel chain Marriott said in a statement Wednesday that it will stop preventing customers from using personal Wi-Fi hot spots and charging them fees to use Marriott’s Wi-Fi network instead. The decision comes just three months after Marriott was fined $600,000 by the Federal Communications Commission for using “containment features …

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