The Livescribe Echo is one of those products that you have to see—and use—to believe. With the help of a built-in voice recorder and an infrared beam in its tip, the Echo not only records every nearby word, it also keeps track of what’s being said as you write,...
What better way for Amazon to promote its new “Cloud Player” than to offer Lady Gaga’s latest album, “Born This Way”—the entire album, mind you, complete with a digital booklet—for a mere 99 cents? Sounds like a pretty good deal, except...
Looks like it’s open season on Sony as far as hackers are concerned. Digital security firm Sophos reports that a database chock full of personal information from registered users of Sony BMG Greece has been posted online. The database includes names, user IDs,...
Could the iPhone 5 arrive with a curved display that better fits the contours of your face? So says DigiTimes, a Taipai-based technology site with a so-so track record when it comes to iPhone rumors. The article claims that Apple has procured a few hundred...
After a few hours with the massive, yet thin and light Infuse 4G—a new Samsung-made Android phone for AT&T—my own, personal iPhone 4 began to look positively puny … and even a tad jealous. Available from AT&T for $199 with a two-year contract, the Infuse...
Leery about plugging your credit card number into Sony’s PlayStation Network after hackers managed to make off with the personal data of 70 million-odd subscribers last month? I don’t blame you—and indeed, I wasted no time in deleting my credit card info...
Thinking about getting a tablet like the iPad, but not sure when—or where—you’d ever use it? Personally, I love to fiddle with my iPad while I’m lounging in front of the tube or right before I turn off my bedside lamp, but that’s just me. For some...
Family plans for voice minutes have long been available for cell phone subscribers, but what about data? For now, at least, the big U.S. carriers are still charging each member of a family for their own data plans, even if all their voice minutes are pooled...
Xbox 360 users have long been able to purchase Microsoft Points—the virtual currency for games, add-ons, video rentals, and other goodies on the Xbox Live gaming network—using their PayPal accounts, but an upcoming system update will soon allow gamers to access PayPay...
Even if you couldn’t care less about 3-D TV, you just might end up buying one anyway—like it or not. So say the analysts at In-Stat, who predict that “100 percent of all 40-inch and above DTV sets will eventually be 3-D-enabled.” Of course,...
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