Gadgets

Interead, a British company has made the Cool-er, a gadget that could change our reading habits for ever. Until relatively recently, buying music meant going in to a shop and picking up a CD. Now, all you need is a computer, an internet connection and an MP3 player to instantly download any song you...
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As U.S. demand for personal computers craters, Apple Inc is getting a boost from overseas PC sales, where iPods are hugely popular but Macs have not been a major presence. Although analysts see the international market as fertile ground for Macs, they say the growth momentum may be tough to maintain due to the...
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Amazon chose to keep secret from much of the publishing sector the text-to-speech feature built into the Kindle 2. Instead, Amazon sprung the feature on publishers and the retailer is now taking public-relations hits that it might have avoided if it hadn’t been so tight lipped. Following the debut of the Kindle 2, the...
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Microsoft officially unveiled the latest version of its mobile operating system at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer previewed Windows Mobile 6.5 during his keynote address and as expected, the updated OS brings a handful of enhancements, including an application store, a backup and restore service, and improved mobile Web browser....
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Speaking at an investor conference today, Palm CEO Edward Colligan has made official what many already suspected: the company won’t be making any new handsets that run the Palm OS and instead will focus on its forthcoming webOS as well as Windows Mobile devices for business users. He also confirmed that Palm will launch...
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It seems the so-called “Jesus Phone” is not so perfect. According to a security consulting firm, the iPhone can easily be taken control of by hackers, leaving your personal information out in the open. According to the Maryland-based firm Independent Security Evaluators, hackers can take over an iPhone if a user accesses a Web...
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Google has banned the term “netbook” from being used in ads placed on its wildly popular Adsense network. Why, you ask? Well apparently, the term “netbook” is a trademark owned by Psion. Anyone remember Psion’s Netbook Pro? No? You aren’t alone. Last year when the netbook world started heating up, Psion was warning manufacturers...
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