Later this spring, Cadillac will start selling the 2013 XTS, a $44,995 luxury sedan with a standard infotainment system called CUE (Cadillac User Experience), cameras that provide a 360-degree view, magnetic suspension and other …
New Google+ for iPhone Is a Slick Wonder (Still Needed: a Decent Google+ for iPad)
Keeping up with Google+ is — for me — a never-ending roller-coaster ride. At first, I loved Google’s social network. Then it slipped out of my list of daily must-visit sites, in part because the quality of the conversation …
This Phone Is All Firefox, All the Way
This year’s CTIA Wireless conference in New Orleans is surprisingly short on major new smartphones. But at last night’s MobileFocus press event, I happened across a fascinating, one-of-a-kind handset which I hadn’t seen in person …
Virgin Mobile and Boost’s Not-Quite-New 4G Android Phones Make Prepaid More Palatable
When you think about it, it shouldn’t matter that much whether you pay for your wireless service after you’ve received it — as most of us do — or before you use it, as you do if you have a prepaid carrier such as Virgin Mobile …
HP Introduces New Ultrabooks and Sleekbooks (But Let’s Just Call Them Notebooks, Shall We?)
HP is taking this whole Ultrabook thing pretty darn seriously. After launching the Folio business Ultrabook last November and the Envy Spectre high-end model in January, it’s back with another Folio and three additional Envy …
Android Update Delays: AT&T CEO Passes the Buck…to Google
At a Milken Institute event on May 2, an audience member asked AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson why phones are so often so slow to get the latest versions of Android. Stephenson’s response is raising eyebrows — including those of …
Color’s Video-Sharing App: Now Optimized for Verizon
Back in March of last year, an innovative but ill-fated iPhone and Android app named Color debuted. It let you share photos with nearby folks who you didn’t necessarily know; the idea was that it would be cool for use at …
Everything Allen Needed to Know About Windows 95, All on One Page
I bought a second-hand computer book this weekend. Its previous owner was someone named Allen. And while I don’t know anything about him — well, I feel like I do know something about him.
The book in question is Without Me …
Flipboard for Android: Coming Soon (as Long as You Buy a Galaxy S III)
[UPDATE: if you’re excited about Flipboard for Android but don’t want to buy a Galaxy S III, you won’t have to wait that much longer. A Flipboard representative e-mailed to tell me that the app will be coming to other Android …
The Old Gmail Is Officially Dead, Dead, Dead
The Atlantic‘s James Fallows — a technology enthusiast as well as a god to anyone who likes good writing — is not a fan of the new Gmail. How hard did he try to avoid it? When he heard that Google was about to kill off the …
Logitech’s New iPad Keyboard Recharges with Sun Rays, Not a Cord
I’ve often said that Zagg’s ZaggFolio — an iPad case with a really comfy built-in keyboard — changed my life. I still use it every day. But I have to say that Logitech’s new Solar Keyboard Folio for the new iPad and iPad 2 …
MasterImage 3D’s 3D Tablet: Surprisingly Decent, and No Glasses Needed
The first time I saw the glasses-free 3D technology from a company called MasterImage 3D, it was in the form of a smartphone-sized screen mounted in a little box full of circuit boards. 3D skeptic though I am, I was kind of …