Netflix agrees to pay Comcast to improve its streaming speeds
Deal Ends Standoff Over Streaming, Would Give Netflix Direct Access to Comcast Systems — Netflix Inc. has agreed to pay Comcast Corp. to ensure Netflix movies and TV shows stream smoothly to Comcast...
The problem with WhatsApp's privacy boasts: They're not true
WhatsApp's FAQ, before the company sold to Facebook — Ever since news of the WhatsApp/Facebook deal broke, members of the tech press have been heaping crazy amounts of praise on founder Jan Koum for...
Scaling Windows Phone, evolving Windows 8
A lot of you folks know me as “the Windows Phone guy.” Over the past five years I've been co-managing the Windows Phone product team on a mission to make Windows Phone a delightful and successful pla...
Huawei announces TalkBand B1 smart watch with 1.4 inch flexible OLED display and removable earpiece
Huawei's first smartband has a pop-out earpiece for voice calls — Huawei hasn't exactly been keeping quiet about its very own wearable device, so today's announcement of its TalkBand B1 should be no...
Facebook Price for Having No Phone OS? $19 Billion. A Must-Have Apps Play? Priceless.
Everyone in a room I was in today dropped their jaws in disbelief when I told them the news that Facebook had forked over $19 billion to buy the global mobile messaging service WhatsApp.
Facebook's WhatsApp acquisition should atone for a prank Zuckerberg played on Sequoia in 2004
The Story Of Sequoia Capital's $3 Billion ‘Revenge’ On Mark Zuckerberg — He's become a successful CEO and a generous person, but ten years ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used to have something of...
PlayStation 4 goes on sale in Japan, and there's no competition
The PlayStation 4 is now available in Sony's home country of Japan, over three months after it first became available in the US. The release comes after Sony has racked up impressive figures elsewher...
Huawei Ascend G6 has 4G LTE and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera (hands-on)
CNET Editors' Take — Huawei has a new phone to show off at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in the form of the Ascend G6. With a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, Huawei is hoping the ...
Apple's ‘Gotofail’ Security Mess Extends To Mail, Twitter, iMessage, Facetime And More
First, Apple revealed a critical bug in its implementation of encryption in iOS, requiring an emergency patch. Then researchers found the same bug is also included in Apple's desktop OSX operating s...
Mozilla's Partners Launch New Firefox OS Phones As It Looks To Expand To New Markets In 2014
Just ahead of the start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Mozilla today announced a number of new Firefox OS smartphones from partners like ZTE, Huawei and Alcatel, as well as a $25 reference...
In a First for Spain, a Woman Is Convicted of Inciting Terror Over Twitter
MADRID — The line between youthful rebelliousness and something more dangerous is not always clear. But in her angry musings on Twitter, Alba González Camacho, 21, who describes herself as a “very no...
Firefox OS getting interface overhaul in coming months
BARCELONA, Spain — Big changes are coming to Firefox OS over the next year as Mozilla moves the browser-based operating system away from its current Android-style functioning. — At the Mobile World ...
Google, LG working on smartwatch to be unveiled in June
BARCELONA, Spain—Google and LG are about to jump into the smartwatch game together. — Google is set to unveil plans for its smartwatch-centric operating system in March, likely in a blog post, accor...
HP's Pavilion x360 convertible has a low price, decidedly Yoga-like design
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Lenovo ought to be tickled right now. HP just announced the 11-inch Pavilion x360, and it takes more than a few cues from Lenovo's iconic Yoga design.
Lenovo tries again with the Yoga Tablet 10 HD+ with improved specs, coming in April for $349 (hands-on)
CNET Editors' Take — The best thing about the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 8 and 10 were their impressively long-lasting batteries. As for performance and value, well let's …
China's Huawei seeks U.S. foothold in smartphone race: executive
(Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies believes it can take advantage of recent changes in how operators in the United States sell phones to get a foothold in the all-important market, an executive w...
HP unveils business-focused ElitePad and ProPad tablets, TX1 POS system
HP is showing off two new tablets, as well as a new point-of-sale retail system, ahead of Mobile World Congress. Both the ElitePad and ProPad tablets feature Microsoft's Windows 8.1 and 64-bit compat...
What will unify the fragmented world of mobile apps like Google unified the web?
A New Glue For A New Kingdom — To me, the most exciting part of the Facebook/WhatsApp deal has nothing to do with the deal itself. Instead, I'm excited about the ramifications of such a deal.
Inside The Netflix/Comcast Deal and What The Media Is Getting Very Wrong
On Sunday, Comcast and Netflix announced a commercial interconnect relationship between the two companies, which is in the very early stages of implementation, and as a result, many who clearly don't ...