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Two Joysticks to Beat Smartphones at Games

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on February 21 at 3:42 pm PT

Sony’s PS Vita tries to offer almost everything, but game-focused features are still what PlayStation does best.

Nook E-Reader Has Potential, but Needs Work

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on December 9, 2009 at 6:03 pm PT

Barnes & Noble’s new e-reader has Wi-Fi and allows users to lend books, but it’s slower and less polished than its Kindle competitor, writes Walt Mossberg.

Amazon’s Kindle 2 Improves the Good, Leaves Out the Bad

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 25, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

Walt finds that Amazon.com has fixed the worst design flaws in the Kindle, its popular electronic-book reader, while maintaining the excellent book-buying experience that made the first model tolerable despite those problems.