Lauren Goode in Product News on May 3 at 6:04 am PT
A new version of the crowdfunded swiveling smartphone dock will cost $50 less than the original.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 22 at 10:12 am PT
Apple’s plans for a super-duper TV remote involve the iPhone or iPad you’re already using.
Lauren Goode in Reviews on March 12 at 6:00 am PT
Consumers who shoot a lot of home movies with their phones or who like to video chat will appreciate the Swivl. But its price point could be a big deterrent for some.
News Byte
Lauren Goode in News on February 22 at 4:55 pm PT
For those of you still holding your breath while you
wait for an official Microsoft Office app to come to iPad, here’s something that might help in the interim: OnLive Desktop Plus, a premium, $4.99-a-month version of the
OnLive Desktop app for iPad and other tablet devices. The newest version of the app offers a cloud-based Internet Explorer 9, Adobe Flash, and PDF capabilities, in addition to the full Office suite and the “accelerated browsing experience” that OnLive created for fast pushing and pulling of data on a remote-access desktop.
Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 20 at 3:16 pm PT
New technologies are making touchscreen typing easier — but is a tactile keyboard still the best solution?
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on September 7, 2011 at 11:15 am PT
Long known as a vendor of the phone service of last resort for use in the world’s remotest locations, Iridium is pushing its data business with a new Wi-Fi device and a new handset.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on December 1, 2010 at 6:02 pm PT
The revamped $99 Apple TV streams content from online, computers and portable devices, and allows you to rent TV shows and movies, but has a very limited selection of Internet video sources.
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.
News Byte
Beth Callaghan in News on September 30, 2010 at 10:55 am PT
A new study shows that
many popular Android apps transmit private user data to advertising networks without the user’s consent or knowledge. Researchers from Duke, Penn State and Intel Labs developed an application called TaintDroid, which detects such transmissions, and tested 30 apps from the Android Market–half of which were found to be sending GPS coordinates to remote servers. The developers of the TaintDroid application plan to make it available to the public to enable user awareness of data collection.
Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on September 21, 2010 at 5:25 pm PT
This week, Sony’s PlayStation 3 gets motion-sensing action with the new Move bundle. Katie tries out the feature.
