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 Digital 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.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on August 24, 2010 at 3:49 pm PT
TiVo is offering a new remote with a QWERTY keyboard as a solution to its arcane text-entry system. We take it for a test drive.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 12, 2010 at 3:38 pm PT
Comcast wants you to know it loves Web video. Time Warner, too. Just keep paying your cable bill, okay?
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on March 24, 2010 at 6:06 pm PT
The latest TiVo model aims to seamlessly blend programming from conventional TV and the Internet, but it doesn’t go nearly far enough in tapping the Internet.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on February 23, 2010 at 2:35 pm PT
The cloud is a hip way of describing Web-accessible storage, and whether people know it or not, they’re using this more each day.
