One word: Wow. Barely a month and a half after launching the TouchPad tablet, HP shocked the tech world Thursday by abruptly announcing (as reported by All Things Digital) that it will discontinue its iPad competitor—and not only that, it will also stop making any and...
Oh, great. It’s your day off, and your boss is calling your iPhone. You don’t really want to talk to him (hey, it’s the weekend!), but you don’t want to abruptly send him to voice mail, either. After all, you don’t want him to think...
As of this Sunday, new AT&T wireless customers will have but two options when it comes to text and picture messaging: either get an unlimited texting plan (for individual or families), or pay 20 cents (or more) for each and every message. That’s bad news for...
So, you’re at an Internet café with your iPad—the non-3G model—and all your want to do is check your email for a minute or two. But the only Wi-Fi plans offered by the café’s hotspot are by the hour, or the entire day. Ugh! Enter Skype and its new Skype...
Got a PlayStation 3 in your living room and a PC or Mac in the den? If so, you have everything you need to stream Hulu videos to your TV without coughing up $8 a month for the premium Hulu Plus subscription service. Orb’s $19 “BR” disc has been on...
Get ready for yet another Android superphone with a glasses-free 3D display—and yet again, while the phone itself is fine, the fuzzy 3D screen is leaving me with little more than a headache. Set to land in AT&T’s handset lineup any day now, the $99 (with...
Tinny and not nearly loud enough: that’s pretty much how I’d describe the iPad 2’s iffy speaker, which barely cuts it when it comes to watching a movie or a TV show—even in the quietest of bedrooms, mind you. Possible solution: a new clip-on tablet...
Click on Netflix’s brand-new “Just for Kids” tab and you’ll find a kid-friendly paradise populated by the likes of Hannah Montana, Dora the Explorer, and the Cookie Monster. Needless to say, neither Freddie Krueger nor Tony Soprano are invited....
The new—and free—Google Catalogs app takes all the paper catalogs piled on your coffee table and puts them on the iPad, perfect for searching, tapping, and swiping. Google isn’t the first company to dream up a catalog app on the iPad, mind you. There’s...
In a first for Apple, the latest version of Mac OS X is available primarily as a download—a hefty 4 GB download, mind you, meaning those with poky Internet connections might be in for a long wait. Now there’s an alternative for Mac users who’d rather...
