Consumer Electronics

November 25, 2009

Amazon Paces Holiday Tech Discount Drive

Michelle Evans wanted to buy a Kindle electronic book reader for her boyfriend, but was having trouble fitting the item into her budget. Then Amazon (AMZN) cut the ...

November 22, 2009

Developers Look Past Apple's Jammed iPhone App Store

Programmers at Ubermind are diversifying their app store loyalties. Once the company's mobile-phone software developers trained all their attention on making ...

November 22, 2009

Apple's Schiller Defends iPhone App Approval Process

Apple (AAPL) is under fire from some developers for the way it vets applications that can be sold on its online App Store. Facebook developer Joe Hewitt goes so far as...

November 18, 2009

Game Console Makers at a Crossroads

Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony need a new game plan. Amid growing evidence old marketing strategies aren't working and concerns by some analysts that holiday sales may ...

November 17, 2009

Smartphones: A Bigger Target for Security Threats

Cheaters beware. In late October, Indonesian developer Sheran Gunasekera released mobile-phone software that can help someone eavesdrop on your conversations. A ...

November 16, 2009

Videoconferencing: Cisco, Logitech Target the Mainstream

Videoconferencing may finally be headed for the mainstream. The technology that lets people around the globe hold face-to-face meetings electronically has been around ...

November 11, 2009

Booming Gray Market Threatens Cell-Phone Industry

Gray is the new black. Just as trafficking in black market goods has eroded sales of consumer electronics, a burgeoning "gray" market for cheap look-alike cell phones ...

November 10, 2009

EA-Playfish: Social Gaming Deals Gain Buzz

At home, Peter VanRysdam rocks out to Guitar Hero on Microsoft's (MSFT) Xbox 360. But while he's on break at work, the 31-year-old marketing executive from ...

November 9, 2009

Why Google Is Buying AdMob

In a move likely to give a big boost to the mobile-phone ad market, Google announced on Nov. 9 that it's buying AdMob, a provider of mobile ad technologies, for $750 ...

November 3, 2009

Augmented Reality: Getting Beyond the Hype

As we look back on the year's technology milestones, 2009 may go down as the year of the rise of augmented reality. As recently as January, this meshing of digital ...

November 3, 2009

Augmented Reality Goes Mobile

It was the shake heard 'round the world. On Aug. 27, 2009, überblogger Robert Scoble uncovered a hidden software feature buried within an iPhone application that ...

November 3, 2009

Augmented Reality Helps Sell the Product

Wise Foods wanted to make its Cheez Doodle brand appealing to a broader market. The snack food is typically purchased by parents for kids, but Wise Foods set about ...

November 1, 2009

Do-It-Yourself iPhone Apps

Tom Johnson is no engineer. But that didn't stop him from creating software that helps him market his wedding-video business. Johnson crafted an application, ...

October 29, 2009

Motorola's Promising Comeback

Is Motorola (MOT) back? The mobile-phone giant has struggled for years as rivals from Nokia (NOK) to Research In Motion (RIMM) to Apple (AAPL) have stolen away its ...

October 28, 2009

Verizon's Motorola Phone Boosts Android

From the start, Google's Android smartphone software has garnered way more attention from hard-core techies than the general public. That's mainly because the range of...

October 27, 2009

Apple: How Long a Rally?

The rally that propelled Apple's shares to a record has sparked debate over how much further the stock could rise, with most analysts expecting the gains to continue. ...

October 26, 2009

Piecing Together a Telecom Gear Rebound

An Oct. 26 earnings report by Tellabs (TLAB) is the latest sign that the worst of the telecom spending slump may be ending. The seller of products that can boost ...

October 25, 2009

Flexible, Open-Source Telephony Resources

Sure, you're up on Android smartphones and perhaps other Linux-based phone platforms, but the freewheeling world of open source includes many hugely useful telephony ...

October 25, 2009

Samsung's Overtaxed Headset

By Aoife M. McEvoy San Francisco - Have you ever heard of the dual-purpose cow? As the name suggests, it gives you both beef and milk. But some folks argue that a ...

October 22, 2009

The Great Internet Buildout Is Spurring Mergers

If you're a BlackBerry (RIM) or iPhone (AAPL) user (see: addict), then you are partly responsible for the great Internet buildout. Those cute apps that look up ...

October 22, 2009

Amazon's Early Holiday Cheer

Booming sales of e-book readers and material to read on them brought early holiday cheer to online retailer Amazon.com (AMZN) in the third quarter. And judging from ...

October 21, 2009

HP's Sleek, Low-Priced Ultraportable

By Darren Gladstone HP has a thing of business-savvy beauty on its hands with the ProBook 5310m. Why do I say that? Even the guys in the PC World Labs—who see ...

October 20, 2009

Preemptive Strike? Apple Upgrades Mac Computers

Days before archrival Microsoft is set to release the next major version of its flagship computer operating system Windows, Apple unveiled a significant upgrade to its...

October 19, 2009

Perils of the Mobile Cloud

Editor's Note: This is the second in a two-part series about the potential hazards of storing personal and business data with online services. The first article, ...

October 19, 2009

Handicapping Dell's Smartphone Bid

Now that Dell is signaling its intention to vault into the smartphone market, industry watchers are asking whether the company can make a serious run. Don't bet on it....

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