10 posts and columns on focus

New Solar-Powered Case Brings More Battery Life to Already Long-Lasting Kindle

in Product News on April 3 at 10:38 am PT

We know: The next time you’ll need to charge your Kindle is when your firstborn graduates college. Still, SolarFocus is bringing even more battery life to the e-reader.
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AT&T Takes Another Bite of Windows Phone, Adding Three Mango Devices to Lineup

in Mobile on September 12, 2011 at 7:26 am PT

Ma Bell plans in the fourth quarter to start selling HTC’s Titan, as well as two new Focus-branded phones from Samsung.
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Nokia’s Stephen Elop Responds to Those Who Oppose His Big Windows Phone Deal

in Mobile on February 15, 2011 at 5:37 am PT

Facebook Sets Mobile Sights on HTML5

in Social on January 25, 2011 at 12:15 pm PT

“Mobile is our primary focus for our platform this year,” Facebook CTO Bret Taylor told an audience of developers at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco today.

Kabam Raises Serious Dough to Develop Serious Games for Social

in Commerce on January 20, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Social games developer Kabam has raised a hefty round of funding to develop games for Facebook that appeal to a more traditional gaming demographic–and probably not your mother.

Windows Phone 7 Prices Quietly Dropping

in Mobile on December 9, 2010 at 7:45 am PT

Although the official prices of the initial Windows Phone 7 devices remain the same, various promotions are heavily discounting the month-old models, with Amazon offering three AT&T models for just a penny.

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Ford Uses Wi-Fi to Customize Cars

in News on August 26, 2010 at 11:29 am PT

The auto industry is getting fired up about wireless technology in cars and trucks but it’s not just for connecting passengers’ laptops or streaming Internet radio stations.

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Almost Famous: Harold Smith IV of OWLE

in News on January 15, 2010 at 12:59 am PT

We Skyped with Harold Smith IV, CEO and co-founder of OWLE, the uber-built iPhone rig that attempts to bridge the gap between a camera on a phone and camcorder. We talked gadgets, apps, “Star Trek,” the Apple stores and more. Enjoy Harold’s yellow suspenders!
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Digital Cameras That Do Thinking for You

in The Mossberg Solution on April 23, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Most people forget their digital cameras have a settings dial that can be adjusted to take pictures in specific circumstances, or don’t know how to use them. Three new digital cameras claim to do the thinking for you, but how are the results?
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