Davey Alba

After months of rumors then denials, confirmations then subsequent previews, Apple finally opened the doors to its Grand Central Terminal retail store at 10 AM this morning. Now if you're one of the 7...

Trust us when we say we aimed to keep as open a mind as possible about what we'd uncover at SXSW 2012. But this new iPad app pounced on us out of nowhere. Aptly dubbed You vs. Cat, it's the first dual...

Republic Wireless, the company behind the noteworthy $19/month unlimited smartphone plan, just pushed out a rather enticing offer. The company used to market its mediocre Motorola Defy XT smartphone o...

If you're a Linux geek and longing to get Ubuntu onto your mobile device, this news should make you pretty happy. Canonical has just announced that a  Developer Preview of the Ubuntu operating system...

There's been no shortage of rumors swirling around Apple's empire of products, and now the latest has arrived about the Apple TV. According to the New York Post, Apple's VP of Internet Software and Se...

Adobe just revealed a much clearer picture of Creative Suite 6 (CS6), the next iteration of its industry-leading collection of graphic design, video editing and web development desktop applications. C...

If the name Isis Mobile Wallet rings a bell, you'll be pleased to know that the NFC-based payment system is making its first real debut here at SXSW 2012—and today, we were shown a clear, step-by-st...

Research In Motion, maker of the waning BlackBerry smartphone platform, has always had at least one big thing going for them: Businesses sang the praises of the company's first-rate security feature...

LAS VEGAS -- We've seen some remarkable uses of augmented reality before, like apps that do live translations of street signs (Word Lens) or apps that use your GPS to generate a map layer of constella...

Since yesterday, leaks on the yet-to-be-released Windows Phone 8 mobile platform -- codenamed Apollo -- have been spilling across the Internet, and the refresh looks to have a whole darn lot of potent...

How do you top a year in which you became the biggest company in the world, had the best-selling smartphone and tablet, and inspired an entire category of MacBook Air copycats called Ultrabooks? You ...

With all the poking, liking, following, circling, and friending that we do on a daily basis, it’s no wonder that many of us have woken up one day with a tangle of followers and friends—many of who...

Though HUD (heads-up display) prototypes have existed for some time, manufacturers have appeared quite tentative to bring them out into the open -- that is, before now. After Google broke the proverbi...

French tablet maker Archos just took the wraps off the first sub-$200 Android tablet dripping in Android 3.2 Honeycomb: the Archos 70b Internet Tablet. The new slate is an update to the Archos 70 IT G...

There are countless virtual gift services today, yet physical gift cards just won't go away. Here's a pretty big endorsement for the latter: Facebook has just launched the "Facebook Card," which will ...

Drying out a wet phone in a bowl of rice. Fixing a skipping disc by wiping it with a vodka-soaked wash cloth. Extending your Wi-Fi router by placing a cookie sheet behind it.You’ve probably heard of...

You may have purchased your first cell phone for its elemental function of being able to take phone calls, but is that the main reason you own one now? With text messaging, food delivery apps, and soc...

When the PC era began in the early 1980s, you'd be lucky to find a computer for under $3,000. Today, you can buy a notebook that's hundreds of times more powerful than the original IBM PC for well und...

Apple’s App Store opened its doors on July 10, 2008, right before the 2008 Bejing Summer Olympics. Now, four years later, you can watch the 2012 London Olympic Games right on your smartphone or tabl...

Right now, gesture control seems to be neither one of the most desired nor polished features offered in tech, especially among laptops. But PointGrab, principal purveyor of advanced hand gesture recog...