Electronics

Samsung has dragged its feet fixing a bug on the Galaxy S III, even though the glitch came to light in June 2012, about nine months ago. Watching this mini-drama play itself out in the tech press and blogosphere, I find myself wishing that somehow we could combine iPhones and Galaxy S phones to get Continue Reading →

LG is definitely one of the most active companies at this year’s Mobile World Congress, having already shown several new smartphones and announcing it has acquired webOS from HP. It seems LG doesn’t plan to stop there, as it just announced the “world’s smallest” wireless charging device. The WCP-300 is a little black pad, just Continue Reading →

Nike released its Nike+ FuelBand to the public a year ago this month. If you’re unfamiliar with the product, it fits around a user’s wrist and provides one common tracking metric for any sort of physical activity. The FuelBand builds on Nike+, a shoe-embedded energy-tracking product the company launched for runners in 2006 and has Continue Reading →

Nokia believes that you shouldn’t have to pay top dollar to enjoy some of the latest smartphone technology, so on Monday the company introduced two new Lumia handsets that deliver higher-end features at lower prices. The first of the devices is the Lumia 720. Priced at around $329 before taxes and carrier discounts, the Windows Continue Reading →

Sony is unveiling a new Android tablet, the Xperia Tablet Z, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Monday. The company claims the tablet is not only the “world’s thinnest 10.1-inch tablet” at 6.9 millimeters, but it’s apparently waterproof in up to three feet of water for 30 minutes. Inside, the Xperia Tablet Z has a Continue Reading →

Barnes & Noble issued two devastating warnings about Nook revenue performance over the past two months. On Sunday night, a New York Times article stated that a person familiar with Barnes & Noble’s strategy believes “the company must move away from its program to engineer and build its own devices and focus more on licensing Continue Reading →

The “leap” from dial-up Internet service to broadband in the late 1990s consisted primarily of a 1.5 Megabits per second (Mbps) connection. You could visit a Website or two and even exchange messages to friends on the thin air we called “e-mail.” Fast forward more than a dozen years to last Friday when the Federal Continue Reading →

HP is back in the non-Windows small tablet game, and this time Android is the platform. The company’s webOS-based TouchPad may have been loved by some, but not by enough to help HP battle the iPad. Now, after a year of licking its wounds, HP has returned with the Slate7. The Slate7 is HP’s new Continue Reading →

Global flavors of LTE bands can be a hassle for travelers and firms making multiple versions of the same device, but Qualcomm says its solved that quandary with a new radio chipset. Dubbed the RF360, the silicon is hailed as the world’s first mobile chip that packs support for global LTE, which translates to connectivity Continue Reading →

Regular people will be able to purchase Google Glass by the end of 2013 for less than $1,500, sources have confirmed to CNET. Google originally targeted a 2014 consumer release when it revealed Project Glass last year, but the timeframe has seemingly sped up in recent months with developer hack-a-thons in San Francisco and New Continue Reading →