As 2011 draws to a close, there's a lot of focus on tech that flopped. And while part of me likes rubbernecking as much as the next guy--RIM's Amateur hour is over ads for the PlayBook were...
AT&T has officially put the kibosh on its $39 billion bid to scoop up T-Mobile and become the nation's largest wireless carrier. With so much politics involved and so many players with something a...
When you think about it, Verizon Wireless was almost lucky to suffer a 4G LTE outage this week. That's because it diverted attention away from the controversy surrounding the carrier's decision to...
The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the first of what will likely be many Android tablets that sport Nvidia's new Tegra 3 quad-core processor. This chip has a ton of power under the hood, and each core has the ability to run at 1.3-GHz.
Is Ice Cream Sandwich truly a leap forward or a very sleek Android skin made by Google itself? That's the question I asked myself as I tested the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the first smartphone to run An...
Judging by the 55-foot tall Windows Phone replica standing in midtown Manhattan this week, I think it's safe to say that Microsoft is pretty serious about making its platform a mainstream hit with con...
You know your smartphone is doing well when 4 million people buy it in the first weekend and it temporarily sells out on all three of your carrier partners. (You can order one now from AT&am...
Right after Amazon introduced its Kindle Fire, I heard a reporter question whether the device is a true tablet. Because it's primarily a vehicle for consuming Amazon content, she wanted to put the Fire in the same "other" category as the Nook Color.
When the first Palm Pre launched way back in 2009--before HP promised it would double down on webOS--I asked a product manager why the company was going it alone with a whole new platform inst...
It hit me while performing a three-finger salute on Microsoft's "reimagining" of Windows. I was shutting down an unresponsive program using Windows 8's new Task Manager--this is a developer preview, a...