Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 20 at 7:05 am PT
Turns out cloud service SugarSync is behind some of those Samsung “smart” TVs — which means users aren’t limited to sharing only from other Samsung devices.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on March 8, 2011 at 9:05 pm PT
A new iPad app called Zite makes the news-gathering process a lot easier. The app crawls over half a million Web domains to find specific reading material that would be of interest to users, according to their social network and online reading behavior.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 16, 2011 at 2:37 pm PT
Walt reviews the Motorola Atrix 4G Android smart phone, which acts as the brains of a small laptop device.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 16, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
Web conferencing is just the worst, but thankfully the tools for giving live remote demos are getting simpler and snappier all the time. Today SlideShare, the presentation-sharing site with 45 million monthly uniques, is launching its take.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 14, 2011 at 2:00 am PT
Cooliris, which makes tools to help people consume media on the Web and various devices, is changing focus with a new flagship product that’s about sharing photos rather than browsing.
John Paczkowski in News on February 10, 2011 at 3:30 am PT
Hewlett-Packard bought Palm for its technology and talent, not for its brand. So it’s hardly surprising that the Palm logo and name were nowhere to be found at HP’s big webOS event Wednesday. Not in the signage. Not in the videos or slides included in the onstage presentation and not on any of the new hardware on display. The TouchPad, Veer and Pre3 all sport silver HP logos and “HP” as a prefix, not Palm.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 9, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who are waiting to see if an appeals court will invalidate their settlement with Facebook, flex their muscles and try to justify their use of the site.
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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 7, 2011 at 3:57 pm PT
Ahead of Apple’s iPhone launch on Verizon later this week, Sprint unveiled the
Kyocera Echo, a dual-touchscreen smartphone. The Android phone, which looks a lot like a Nintendo DS, is being positioned against tablets because of better multitasking capabilities. It allows people to watch videos on one display while browsing on another. The Echo will be available this spring for $200 with a new contract. Monthly plans start at $80 for unlimited text, talk and data.
