May 4, 2010
In the pantheon of Apple rumors, some refuse to die. Among these is the idea that Apple (AAPL) should team up with Advanced Micro Devices to offer its chips inside ...
May 2, 2010
Touchscreen software maker Swype says its technology will be speeding the way consumers type on about 10 million smartphones by the end of this year. Each of the ...
April 30, 2010
Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrote a rare, 29-paragraph open letter on Apr. 29, panning Adobe Systems' Flash video software as having "major technical drawbacks"—and ...
April 30, 2010
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 6, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer brandished a prototype Windows tablet computer made by the company's ...
April 28, 2010
To widen its lead in the cloud computing market, Amazon.com is working to make its Web services compelling to more customers as computing giants such as Microsoft ...
April 27, 2010
Although the red-hot netbook minicomputer market has cooled considerably in the past few months, PC manufacturers say they're committed to churning out new designs ...
April 27, 2010
T-Mobile has announced that it will end a 5 gigabyte-per-month data usage cap on its mobile broadband service. T-Mobile has changed its mobile data pricing plan to cut...
April 22, 2010
When Adobe Systems (ADBE) announced Apr. 21 that it wouldn't support Flash development tools for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone in its new Creative Suite 5 software, the move ...
April 15, 2010
Huawei Technologies, China's biggest maker of phone equipment, is "open to all the possible opportunities" for North American expansion, said Charlie Chen, a senior ...
April 15, 2010
Between packing up to move apartments and keeping an eye on Twitter's Chirp conference, I've been playing around with a new 15-inch MacBook Pro, one of the many new ...
April 14, 2010
Every few years as softball season approaches, I get this dumb idea to upgrade my equipment. Some years I'll drop hundreds of dollars on a glove, thinking I'll be able...
April 13, 2010
Google (GOOG) is said to be planning a rival device to Apple's (AAPL) iPad that will run its Android operating system. Assuming this is true, what does Google need to ...
April 12, 2010
Sometimes timing is everything. After several weeks of testing HTC's gorgeous new HD2 smartphone, I can tell you it's unquestionably the best device yet that runs ...
April 12, 2010
Internet retailer Amazon.com (AMZN) may need to write a new chapter for the Kindle in the face of fierce competition from Apple's iPad. Since Apple (AAPL) announced on...
April 11, 2010
Intel (INTC) has owned the corporate computing market for decades, thanks for its industry standard x86 architecture for computer chips. Now Barry Evans thinks it's ...
April 7, 2010
Apple's (AAPL) iPad tablet computer costs as little as $259.60 to build, according to analysis by the research firm iSuppli. Materials for the iPad, which went on sale...
April 6, 2010
Kyle Osborn does a good job impersonating a technical support rep. On a recent day in Southern California, the 19-year-old is working the phones, trying to persuade ...
April 6, 2010
Palm has fired the creators of its ineffective Pre advertisements, but the tossing overboard of ad agency Modernista isn't going to right its sinking ship. Palm's ...
April 2, 2010
Apple's (AAPL) iPad is helping cool the computer industry's netbook fever. Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has made no secret of his disdain for the popular, ...
April 1, 2010
Publishing professional Peter Costanzo is out to redefine telecommuting. The 45-year-old online marketing director for Perseus Books Publishing in New York has ordered...
March 29, 2010
Sprint Nextel (S), the nation's third-largest cell-phone carrier, is betting big on 4G. The company has spent several billion dollars in recent years to build wireless...
March 28, 2010
Mobile broadband consumption shows no signs of slowing, but the way people access the mobile Web could be changing. Market researcher Gartner (IT) has released a ...
March 26, 2010
This year, wireless carrier Sprint Nextel (S) is expending a lot of effort to promote its Overdrive mobile broadband modem, which searches for wireless connections to ...
March 24, 2010
Jim Turner has bought 15 iPads that he'll get in April, when Apple (AAPL) starts shipping the tablet-style computer designed for book reading, game playing, and video ...
March 19, 2010
Apple makes big demands of software developers who want an early crack at the iPad. Would-be testers of the tablet-style computer, due to be released Apr. 3, must ...