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,...
Just a few months ago, I was marvelling at how sales of Kindle books had managed to outpace those of paperback—all paperbacks, mind you, not only those available as Kindle editions—on Amazon. But while Kindle books had also been outselling hardbacks since last summer,...
Just a few days after Sony jump-started the hacker-plagued PlayStation Network comes word of another potential vulnerability, although it doesn’t appear that any additional PSN account info has been stolen (or at least, not yet). The deal, according to...
The successor to last year’s red-hot Motorola Droid X is set to arrive with a dual-core processor and a sharper display, but those hoping for a dose of speedy LTE data access should prepare for disappointment. Slated to land in Verizon Wireless’ smartphone...
It wasn’t all that long ago that Sprint was in the doghouse as far as the American Customer Satisfaction Index was concerned. What a difference a scant three years makes, with Sprint scoring a 72 out of 100 on the annual ACSI survey, up a eye-popping 16 points...
Turns out that the “vast majority” of Android smartphones are doing a lousy job when it comes to protecting the digital “token” that grants users access to calendars, contacts, and other Google-hosted services—or so says a team of wireless...
The long-awaited PlayStation phone—well, close enough, anyway—just got a U.S. release date, with Verizon Wireless announcing Tuesday that the gamepad-toting, Android-powered slider phone will arrive in stores on May 26, for $199 with a two-year service agreement....
From the makers of the notorious-but-groundbreaking “Grand Theft Auto” series comes “L.A. Noire,” a Dashiell Hammett-style whodunit set in the City of Angels and starring the motion-captured likeness of Aaron Staton, better known as Ken...
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