Remember in high school when you used to have to take photos of yourself by holding your camera out in front of you, hoping you lined everything up correctly? And then your girlfriend got mad at you because you didn’t have any …
Gadgets
Get Your BlackBerry PlayBooks Cheap: $299 Fire Sale on All Models
Want a 64GB tablet for just $299? Wallet, meet solution — if you don’t mind the part where it’s called a BlackBerry PlayBook, that is.
Yep, RIM just dropped the official prices on its beleaguered tablet lineup, taking the …
LG Debuting 55-inch Ultra-Thin OLED TV at CES, May Sell Later This Year
Jumbo-screen TV lovers, hide your checkbooks — it sounds like LG will be the first electronics manufacturer to sell a monster-sized 3D organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV later this year. Hey, what better way to celebrate …
Looking Forward to 2012: Credible iPad Threats
The iPad is a great tablet, but you know what’s even better? Competition. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much of that in 2011, as Apple’s rivals rushed out clunky, expensive tablets based on Android Honeycomb, which itself was buggy …
5 Big Hopes for Samsung’s Galaxy S III
As an owner of Samsung’s Galaxy S II, I’ve taken an interest in a series of rumors about Samsung’s next flagship phone, the Galaxy S III. There’s not much to chew on at the moment, aside from the requisite spec boosts and a …
Rumor: Two New iPads in January, iPad 2 Price Drop Expected [Updated]
Apple’s next iPad — make that iPads, as in two — could see light of day at last in January, according to a highly detailed new rumor, but word that Apple was planning a smaller 7-inch iPad is in doubt after the source backed …
Looking Forward to 2012: Apple TV, iPhone 5 and Goodnight PCs
Onward, tablets, smartphones and post-PC (yet still just as much “personal computing”) devices — call them whatever you like, 2012 will see a glut of me-too mobiles designed to untether us from stodgy office desktops and …
Android, iOS Devices Have ‘Record-Shattering’ Holiday Sales
It’s been an exceptionally profitable holiday for Apple and Google, according to research firm Flurry Analytics, which claims that it can detect device sales based on “apps monitoring” and use that to come up with a “roughly …
Cellphones that Repair Themselves? Scientists Create ‘Self-Healing’ Circuits
Cellphone, heal thyself — if you’re sick of having to work your way through a series of broken electronic devices, dulled (or dead) batteries and an endless thread of replacement cellphones, help may be at hand thanks to …
Looking Forward to 2012: Ultrabooks
As 2011 quickly draws to a close, here’s what I’m most looking forward to in 2012. Check back each day this week for similar pieces from Graeme, Jared, Matt and Keith.
Ultrabooks
It’s taken the PC industry a while to reach …
Buyer’s Remorse: What to Do with Tech Gifts You Don’t Want
Just because you didn’t get the perfect gift during the holidays, it doesn’t mean you can’t get what you want
How the iPad 2 Became My Favorite Computer
Can the iPad replace a PC?
Ever since Apple announced its tablet nearly two years ago, the Internet has been awash in discussion of this question. Most of it has had a pretty theoretical feel and has gravitated toward …