Consumer Electronics

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....

October 19, 2009

Apple: All Systems Go

The tech industry's earnings juggernaut keeps rolling. Apple blew past Wall Street's expectations with a fiscal fourth-quarter report on Oct. 19 that showed profits ...

October 15, 2009

Android's Spread Could Become a Problem

For the mobile-phone software Android, popularity may carry a high price tag. The operating system created by a Google-led consortium is being adopted by a growing ...

October 15, 2009

Samsung's Series 7000 LED TV Keeps You Connected

Despite a release date in May, when many consumers were still cutting back on big-ticket purchases, Samsung's new line of televisions has been a big hit. With a ...

October 15, 2009

RIM's Vastly Improved BlackBerry Storm

Over the past few weeks, I have used about a dozen smartphones. The experience has convinced me that touchscreens will soon be the main way we control phones—and...

October 14, 2009

Wi-Fi Is About to Get a Whole Lot Easier

Going Wi-Fi is about to get a lot easier. For many consumers, setting up an in-home Wi-Fi connection point is something of a hassle. Before you can enjoy the ...

October 13, 2009

Voice Is Dead, Long Live Voice

I first started seriously writing about voice delivered over the Internet almost 10 years ago. I've written about the meteoric rise and ignominious fall of Vonage, the...

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