Brad Chacos

Password recovery tools fill a very useful place in today's login-crazy Web, but the helpful boon has turned into a hindering bane for Skype users. For at least two months, hackers have known -- and p...

Asus has unveiled the Padfone 2, the second iteration of the company's innovative Android-powered device that's two devices in one. The Padfone 2 is a powerful smartphone that slides into its companio...

Meet the Ubi: a hands-free, hassle-free "ubiquitous" computer (get the name?) designed to plug in to a wall socket and sit there, silently waiting and watching with its numerous environmental sensors,...

Several pundits lamented the iPhone 5 as a lackluster update, but if preorder numbers are any indication, actual customers think it's anything but: the iPhone 5 is already shattering the lofty sales r...

BlackBerry 10's hitting the streets in all its newfound touchscreen glory in just 19 days, and despite RIM's tight-lipped stance surrounding the upcoming hardware, leaked images have been hitting the ...

Faced with quarter after quarter of sluggish sales, PC manufacturers have been pining for a savior that just hasn't materialized. This year, it's Windows 8's turn to try out the hero role, but a recen...

Microsoft isn't the only company going touch-crazy with its desktop operating system. A new report claims that Google is working on an in-house Chromebook with a touch screen display. If true, this de...

Where are the apps? That's the question we asked in our review of the Microsoft Surface, and it's one of the bigger question marks plaguing Microsoft's Windows 8 launch. At today's Build 2012 kick-off...

Never underestimate the ingenuity of the Internet. Shortly after Google's new Nexus 7 tablet launched, enterprising users discovered two nifty little tidbits about the Tegra 3-powered tablet: one, tha...

It's official: Windows Phone 8 includes NFC support, and that support isn't limited to hardware alone. Microsoft program manager John Skovron took the time to show off the near-field sharing capabilit...

Sometimes, cups that runneth over can be a bad thing. Research In Motion's plummeting market share has caused its inventory to skyrocket by over two-thirds in the past year, Bloomberg reports, and all...

On the surface, Nokia's proxy-based Xpress Web browser — available for the manufacturer's Asha and flagship Lumia handsets — sounds nothing short of excellent, routing Internet traffic through N...

If you needed any more convincing that Windows 8 and Windows RT are two separate and distinct operating systems, look no further than Acer. The Taiwanese computer maker threw its full weight behind Wi...

Thin is in, and not just when it comes to smartphones. This morning, ADATA announced the DashDrive Elite HE720, a slim and trim USB 3.0 external hard drive that ADATA says is the thinnest of its kind ...

Rumors of mass produced iPad minis inching closer to completion may titillate the Apple faithful, but when it comes down to brass tacks, rumors are nothing but whispers in the wind: in the absence of ...

If you can't outsell 'em, outsize 'em. After failing to secure much of a toehold in the American smartphone market, Huawei seems poised to capture the attention of U.S. shoppers and carriers alike wit...

It looks as though Instagram's backpedaling wasn't enough to quell user outrage at the controversial new terms of service that were released—and rapidly repealed—a couple of weeks back. New data f...

Apple-loving streaming media fans rejoice! Amazon Instant Video, a top-notch video service that has been conspicuously missing from the iOS lineup, has finally touched down on the iPad. Amazon's video...

Several months back, Google raised eyebrows when it moved (mostly) to a single, unified privacy policy that allowed the company to share information between its various apps and services; now, we're s...

Samsung rules the Android roost, but it looks like the consumer electronics giant is one step closer to releasing its Plan B.  The Daily Yomiuri newspaper says that Samsung will begin selling its fi...

While the world waits for the big Windows Phone 8 launch later today, Nokia's taken the time to crash Microsoft's party a bit early with the unveiling of the Lumia 822, a Verizon exclusive variant of ...

Will Motorola unveil its first Intel-powered smartphone on Sept. 18? That's the question we posed just last week when the two companies began passing out invitations to a big press announcement event....

HTC's One V could be getting a slightly bigger, slightly better refresh later this fall: the HTC "Proto." Rumors about the Proto -- which is a code name -- have been floating around the Web for months...

Google's giving website administrators the ability to monetize their sites using a new kind of paywall: pay-per-page purchases. According to the Google Wallet for Web Content website (which, fear not,...

Nexus handsets hang their hats on being as close to a pure, frequently updated Android experience as you can get. That selling point became a point of contention for disgruntled Verizon Galaxy Nexus o...