Report: poor battery life in 4G smartphones makes for unhappy customers
The lackluster battery life of 4G-capable phones is dragging them down in consumer ratings, according to data collected by J.D. Power and Associates. The company noted dissatisfaction with battery life "greatly impacted" cust...
Feature: Does this smartphone make me look stupid? Meet the "ladyphones"
Women are accosted everywhere by pink: pink toys when they're young, pink clothes when they're teenagers, pink beer when they're adults. That wasn't the case in tech, which for decades created...
DIY: Make your own laptop hammock, for a dollar
Multiple monitors on desks are all the rage in the last few years. According to studies, the more monitors you have, the better your productivity. I worked with two monitors for...
iTunes Digital Copies of movies can now be served up by iCloud
Digital copies of certain movies can now by synced to and downloaded from iCloud, Tech of the Hub noted Friday. Customers who have iTunes Digital Copies of movies loaded on their...
Apple in antitrust crosshairs over e-book pricing
The Department of Justice has plans to sue Apple for allegedly colluding to fix the prices of e-books, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Until fairly recently, publishers sold books to retailers...
Feature: The five technologies that will transform homes of the future
You get home from work on a Tuesday evening. Sensing your arrival, your home turns on the lights in the living room and kitchen. You stop by the bathroom and step...
Struck by a smooth criminal: hackers lift unreleased Michael Jackson songs
Hackers got their hands on a number of unreleased Michael Jackson songs after attacking the Sony Music archive. Sony confirmed the hack to the BBC Monday, though would not detail which or how many of the...
Windows 8 Photos app brings "fast and fluid" to picture management
Windows 8 Consumer Preview's handling of photographs is a slick, centralized, and very much a tablet-like experience. The Photos app gives users fluid, near-instantaneous access to your pictures, for which the...
Pew study shows the democratization of the smartphone
The percentage of smartphone owners is growing closer to the 50 percent mark, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. Forty-six percent of American adults now have smartphones, with growth in several...
A year late, hundreds of dollars short: Sony Tablet P coming March 4
Sony's burrito-like clamshell tablet, dubbed the Tablet P, will finally arrive to market March 4 via AT&T. Unfortunately, it appears the device got stuck in a time warp from the time it was announced, and...
App makers may pick up part of your mobile data tab in the future
Cellular carriers may be looking into the data equivalent of 800 numbers to lighten the financial burden of data on customers, the Wall Street Journal reported today. A representative from AT&T said at Mobile World...
