HTC’s “Facebook phones” revealed
Rumors had been swirling for weeks that HTC had a pair of new Android phones with deep Facebook integration in the offing, and now the two handsets—the Salsa…
Mobile and Handheld Technologies
Multitasking, cut-and-paste support coming to Windows Phone 7
Two of the biggest complaints about Microsoft's mobile OS reboot--no multitasking for third-party apps, and no cutting and pasting--will be fixed before the year is out, with the…
Acer Iconia A100: A 7-Inch Android tablet (with Honeycomb!)
Acer may take the plunge to put Android 3.0 on a 7-inch tablet, according to reports from this week’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. The company is…
Nokia, Microsoft in pact to rival Apple, Google
Technology titans Nokia and Microsoft are combining forces to make smart phones that might challenge rivals like Apple and Google and revive their own fortunes in a market…
News Corporation introduces The Daily, a digital-only newspaper
Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday pushed the send button on The Daily, a news application designed for the iPad that he hopes will position his News Corporation front and…
Colleges could profit as internet runs out of addresses
The internet is running out of numerical addresses – known as IP addresses – and that might not be so bad for colleges and universities prepared for the…
New service lets voices from Egypt be heard
Unedited, raw, anonymous and emotional, Egyptian voices are trickling out through a new service that evades attempts by the authorities to suppress them by cutting internet services, reports…
Verizon to offer $30/month unlimited data plan for iPhone
You'll be able to get unlimited data with the upcoming Verizon iPhone, carrier execs have confirmed. Meanwhile, word has it that Verizon may nix a cheaper, capped 3G…
10 of the best apps for higher education
In this special feature, we’ve assembled a list of education “apps” for Apple devices that we think are noteworthy for higher education.
Are Android tablets vapor? Or just not here?
Everyone seems to have proclaimed that this was the "year of the tablet" at the Consumer Electronics Show. But while I certainly saw a whole lot of tablets…