Some of the best new Facebook privacy controls—including the ability to pick and choose who you share your posts and photos with—just landed on Facebook’s iPhone app. Available now on the App Store, version 3.5 of Facebook for iPhone also adds several other new...
Jason writes: Is it OK to just put my smartphone in “airplane” mode on a plane when it’s taking off and landing, or do I have to turn it all the way off like the flight attendants say? Hi Jason! Anyone who flies the friendly skies on a regular basis...
Hope you’ve been having a great—and long—weekend. here’s the thing will be taking a break for the rest of the day, but I’ll be back Tuesday with more tech tips, how-tos, and news. Enjoy your barbecues, and see you...
Netflix’s new and pricier (in some cases, at least) subscription plans kick in this month; ready to pick a new one? Also: How to watch Flash videos on the iPad; Sony unveils a pair of tablets that go where no tablets have gone before; how to review tagged photos...
Jo Ann writes: On the AT&T GoPhone $50/month unlimited plan, is mobile Gmail included? Thanks! Hi Jo Ann! So, AT&T’s new $50 unlimited pre-paid GoPhone plan includes unlimited calling, texting, and web access. And since web access is all you need to...
And I thought phones with four-inch screens were big. Check out the Samsung Galaxy Note, a new, Android-powered superphone with an eye-popping 5.3-inch display, nearly two inches larger than the iPhone’s puny 3.5-inch screen. Unveiled Thursday at the IFA...
The year? 1981. Ronald Reagan was in office, CD players were a year away, and many of us still had rotary phones hanging from our kitchen walls. (Well, we had one in our house, anyway.) Yep, things have sure changed in the past few decades, but one classic tech gadget...
Kudos to Sony for trying something new—very new—with its upcoming Android tablets, with one that looks like a folded-over magazine while the other, dual-screen tablet boasts a hinged folio-style design. The Sony Tablet S—that’s the one with the curled edge—is...
Worried that consumers like us will be the losers if AT&T manages to gobble up T-Mobile? Well, it looks like the U.S. government couldn’t agree more. Bloomberg reports that the Justice Department is moving to block the proposed merger, arguing that the...
Don’t get me wrong: I like pinching and swiping as much as the next person. But when it’s time to balance my checkbook in Quicken, I long for an old-fashioned number pad—you know, the kind with ten number buttons and the oversize “enter” key....
