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Searching for a Mighty Mouse? Here Are Three Options.

Lauren Goode in Product Reviews on April 9 at 6:01 am PT

Wireless, touch-friendly mice from Microsoft, Logitech and Hewlett-Packard.

Tablets That Have a Certain Feel to Them

Ina Fried in Mobile on March 1 at 10:13 am PT

Even if many tablets look alike, they could soon feel very different, thanks to advances in the field known as haptics.

Adobe Brings Photoshop Touch to iPad, Unveils iOS-Friendly Video Ad Platform

Lauren Goode in News on February 26 at 9:05 pm PT

First Adobe killed Flash for mobile. Now it’s cozying up to iOS.

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Kindle Fire Heats Up Holiday for Amazon

Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 29, 2011 at 8:50 am PT

Amazon said this holiday season was the best ever for its Kindle, with more than four million Kindle devices sold in the month of December. The company also said that its new tablet, the $199 Kindle Fire, has become the best-selling and most-gifted product across all of Amazon.com since its introduction to the market 13 weeks ago. Amazon rarely releases unit sales numbers of its e-readers, but said earlier this month that it had sold more than one million Kindles a week for three consecutive weeks.

Ever Heard of the App Touch? Nobody Has, but 12M People Already Use It.

Liz Gannes in Social on December 5, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

An under-the-radar Canadian start-up with more than 12 million users for its free texting app is now trying to break out as a mobile social leader.

Spooking Flipboard: Yahoo’s Livestand — Followed by Google’s Propeller — Set to Launch Next Week

Kara Swisher in Media on October 28, 2011 at 5:35 am PT

Memo to Flipboard, Pulse, CNN’s Zite and AOL’s Editions: You might want to make some room in the crowded news and social reader space — you’re about to get some bigfoot company.

Apple’s iPhone 4S Event in Photos

Drake Martinet in News on October 4, 2011 at 5:55 pm PT

AllThingsD was on hand to capture everything in photos, and we’ve compiled a gallery of the best.

Kobo’s Strategy Includes Hardware With Introduction of New Touch E-Reader

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 23, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

The bare bones e-reader that Kobo released in May 2010 was intended to help sell more of its e-books. But now the company is also seeing the merits of pursuing a hardware strategy, which includes today’s unveiling of an all-new touch-enabled device.

Comedy Is Not Pretty (And Neither Is CES)

John Paczkowski in News on January 6, 2011 at 3:48 am PT

That Steve Martin is on Twitter is a good idea. That he’s taken to tweeting about the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas this week is a great one. Who better than Martin to sardonically poke fun at the annual gadget bacchanal that promises to launch game-changing technologies but more often than not ends up showcasing derivative ones?