Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 19 at 9:00 am PT
Decide.com helps eliminate buyer’s remorse by predicting whether the price of products will rise or fall. Now it is confident enough about some of its deals that it’s offering a money-back guarantee.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on January 25 at 6:03 pm PT
Tely Labs’ telyHD turns Skype video chats into room-size experiences, involving whole families or groups of friends on each end—seeing each other, chatting and sharing photos in high definition using TVs instead of computers.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on June 20, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Ever wonder if you should buy a new digital camera or wait for a better one just around the corner? Even worse, did you buy the brand-new HDTV right before 3-D came out?
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on March 9, 2011 at 6:01 pm PT
The new IPad 2 is thinner, lighter, faster and more powerful than the original. It offers an excellent balance of size, functionality and price, and keeps Apple ahead in the tablet race, at least for now.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 5, 2011 at 1:10 pm PT
Superphones are beautiful on the outside but a monster inside, thanks to the new high-speed processor announced today by Nvidia. The so-called Tegra 2 will bring superior graphics capabilities to a wide variety of devices this week at CES.
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Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 16, 2010 at 3:52 pm PT
Gary Shapiro promises more cool stuff than ever at the giant Consumer Electronics Show in early January. But the trade group leader sounds less than enthusiastic about one of the most talked-about topics, 3D television.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on November 17, 2010 at 6:07 pm PT
Google TV, the latest attempt to integrate Web video and regular TV, is a bold effort, but it is ultimately too complicated for mainstream use.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 11, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Do you watch most of your television in HD, or standard definition?
Even though 56 percent of U.S. households have high-def, more than 80 percent of television viewing is still done in standard definition, according to a report this week by Nielsen.
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Nick Wingfield, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 27, 2010 at 8:06 am PT
Samsung’s John Revie says 3D televisions aren’t a fad, and he believes there’s early evidence to prove it.
Revie, a senior vice president for the Korean electronics giant and one of its top bosses in the U.S., smiles when asked what he says to skeptics who say 3D-capable HDTVs will never catch on with the masses. Since they went on sale at the end of March, Revie says sales of Samsung’s 3D televisions are already outpacing those of Samsung’s successful LED televisions at the same stage following their introduction last year.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 4, 2010 at 4:00 am PT
People are watching more Web video than ever. And they’re buying more TV than ever. What gives?
