Apple finally hopped on the wireless charging bandwagon with the iPhone X, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. While this is the first time the tech has appeared on an iPhone, Apple’s wireless charging still requires contact with a charging mat. Previous rumors stated that Apple was looking into ways to charge your phone from a …
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With technology increasingly intertwined with all aspects of business, CNET@Work can help you — from prosumers to small businesses with fewer than five employees — get started. The self-employed worker is becoming increasingly popular among software vendors. And there’s a good reason for that. There were 15 million people self-employed in 2015, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. …
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Workplace messaging app Slack is now valued at $5.1 billion thanks to an investment from Japanese internet giant SoftBank. The company confirmed Monday that it raised $250 million from SoftBank and other investors, including the venture capital firm Accel Partners, in its most recent funding round. In total, Slack has raised $841 million from investors. The company was valued at …
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With Face ID, Apple is bringing a new way to unlock your iPhone. But whether people are going to use it is still out on the table. We compare Face ID with facial recognition for devices like the Galaxy Note 8 and Samsung’s Galaxy S8, and highlight how Apple’s made it different for the new iPhone X. Also on the …
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Ten years ago, Steve Jobs stood on a stage in San Francisco and promised, “Apple is going to reinvent the phone.” That turns out to have been the understatement of the decade. Though Apple certainly wasn’t the first to make a mobile phone, or even the first to use touchscreen technology, the iPhone’s blend of slickly designed hardware and software …
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Don’t expect a hologram of Princess Leia to pop out of the Hydrogen One phone, pleading “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.” But in a different way Leia will be inside the $1,200 phone due to arrive next year. Red, the high-end cinema camera maker behind the Hydrogen One, said Friday that a startup called Leia is providing …
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With technology increasingly intertwined with all aspects of business, CNET@Work can help you — from prosumers to small businesses with fewer than five employees — get started. For Todd Spodek, the decision to equip his New York law firm with Google‘s software applications boiled down a single need: collaboration. “We settled on Google because it was at the forefront of …
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The man who made the Pebble watch is back on Kickstarter again, but this time he’s making an iPhone case. It sounds ridiculous, but according to Eric Migicovsky, there are greater things down the road, and he’s partnering with a former co-founder of Avegant and an engineer at Pebble to do it. Migicovsky last year sold his smartwatch company, Pebble, …
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Whether you’re in a bar playing obnoxiously loud music or just a little hard of hearing, we all know what it’s like to struggle to hear what someone physically close to us is saying. Danish startup Lizn has developed one solution with its Hearpieces wireless earbuds, which can be used to listen to music or to enhance the hearing of …
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On May 30, Essential founder Andy Rubin said he’d ship his stunning Essential Phone within 30 days. On July 22, he said it was coming “within a few weeks.” On August 16, the company said the first preorders would ship within 7 days. None of those things happened. But Essential tells CNET the phone is finally shipping today, August 25. …
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