In my apartment, the cordless phone sits right next to the 2,400 baud modem ... in my drawer of outdated gadgets. My last VCR sits at the bottom of a landfill, buried right next to my VHS copy of "Y2K...

Android may be the most popular mobile platform on the planet, but it's not without flaws. Android phones and tablets frequently suffer from mediocre battery life, performance that slows down over tim...

In the same week that Samsung came out with the most advanced Android smartphone ever, we heard that Intel and its partners were working on $200 Android laptops with Atom processors. Though it started...

When I was growing up, my parents would tell me about all the ancient technologies they had to use in their youth. Whether it was a car with a manual choke, a phone that required you to ask an operato...

The smart money says that laptops and desktops are dead, replaced by tablets and smartphones. According to a new report from analyst firm IDC, Global PC shipments were 13.9 percent lower in Q1 of 2013...

Who can forget when HP spent $1.2 billion for Palm, only to give up on its entire ecosystem just 57 days after launching the first webOS tablet? Does anyone even remember Microsoft's Kin phones, whi...

Most people have at least one piece of old technology they use, despite more advanced alternatives. Many still like shooting pictures with film cameras and, the other day, I saw a hipster sitting in the park clacking away on a manual typewriter.

No respect. They get no respect. No matter how many great products some tech companies produce, they just don't get all the love they deserve from consumers, or from many of my colleagues in the press...

For some odd reason, many tech companies are physically incapable of hosting a product launch event without turning it into some type of cringe-worthy Vaudeville show, complete with silly skits, half-...