Lines between netbooks, laptops keep blurring

When I saw Lenovo's recent announcement about its new, 12-inch netbook, the IdeaPad S12, I did a doubletake. Netbook? 12-inch screen? That's what my Mac PowerBook, circa 2004, had, and I remember carrying it everywhere.

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Digital TV transition: Almost all are ready

Here's the number to remember June 12 if your television doesn't get your regular channels, if you waited until the last minute to make the transition to digital TV, or if you have any questions about it: 1-888-225-5322 (1-888-CALL FCC).

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Dell launches 'Della,' a women's PC site

Computer sales have slowed down, but has it really come to this? Dell, the world's second largest manufacturer of PCs, last week launched a cutesy site for women called "Della." What's next, "Dello" for guys? Maybe No. 1 PC maker H-P wants to do something similar like "Hewlett-Packarda" for females, and "Hewlett-Packardo," as in Ricky Ricardo, for men?

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Palm Pre prepares to battle 'iBerry' juggernaut

For the first time in nearly two years, the iPhone faces a showdown with what could be a true iPhone challenger. It's not a BlackBerry. It's not an Android phone. It's a Palm and it's called the Pre.

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IT survey: Not quite ready for Windows 7

Windows Vista is much-improved and the early word on Windows 7, Microsoft’s next computer operating system, is encouraging. Still, the company faces an uphill battle to get corporate users to move from its older operating system, XP to Windows 7, due out next year, according to a recent survey of more than 1,100 information technology professionals.

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AOL: You've got irrelevancy?

America Online’s dial-up Internet service may be headed for the sale bin. Do we care?

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Not your mother's Garmin or Nokia

Cisco recently announced plans to buy Pure Digital, maker of the popular Flip video camera. Nokia may make a netbook. Garmin is teaming up with Asus to create a cell phone.

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Can other 'app' stores work for mobile users?

Research In Motion, Microsoft and Nokia are getting ready to launch online “app” stores for their mobile phones, attempting to play catch-up with Apple’s hugely successful “App Store” for the iPhone. With a tough economy, will consumers be willing to spend tightly held dollars on software programs for their phones?

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Non-removable batteries aren't a charge for all

Apple’s MacBook Air and latest 17-inch MacBook Pro laptop have non-removable batteries. Asus, maker of the popular Eee netbook computers, plans to follow suit with its 1008HA model, due out mid-year in the United States.

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Cell phone models change frequently

The BlackBerry Curve 8900, one of RIM's newest and slickest smartphones, became available from T-Mobile just a few weeks ago. But even in the days leading up to its release, there already was Net buzz about the 8900's successor, the 9300, which is supposed to have an even bigger screen and other improvements — and is not due out until the end of this year.

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House votes to delay digital TV transition

The House voted Wednesday 264-158 to delay the analog TV shutdown until June 12.

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Netbooks: XP now, but Windows 7 later

Netbooks, the little laptops geared to mainly Web surfing and e-mail, have tiny keyboards, small screens — and the Windows XP operating system on many of them now.

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Android apps you won't find on the iPhone

Two months after the first Android phone was released, there are more than 400 free programs from which to choose and the promise of more handsets coming that use the open-source operating system.

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Nobody wants to see Apple Jobs-less

It was the kind of news nobody really wanted to hear: no Steve Jobs at next month’s Macworld Expo, his absence seemingly a dress rehearsal for a time when the man who not only co-founded Apple but revolutionized personal technology won’t be a part of such events.

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Major software, firmware fixes to Storm made

A major operating system upgrade that makes badly needed improvements to the troubled BlackBerry Storm has been released, making the smartphone much smoother to operate and to use,

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A cloud hangs over BlackBerry Storm

After nearly two weeks on the market, the much-anticipated BlackBerry Storm has lived up to its name, with longtime BlackBerry loyalists frustrated by the smartphone's bugginess, sluggishness and user unfriendliness with its three touchscreen keyboards.

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Getting ready for 'Cyber Monday'

This holiday season is likely to be the worst for online shopping since it started a decade or so ago. But that doesn’t mean you won’t face delays or slowdowns at retail Web sites on Cyber Monday, or in the weeks ahead when online shopping intensifies.

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Pew study cites personal tech frustrations

Feel discouraged or aggravated when your home Internet connection goes on the blink or your cell phone fritzes out, and you don’t know what to do?

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Notebook sales dominate desktops in U.S.

Are desktop PCs going the way of the dinosaur?

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More smartphones will have "app stores"

Apple, with its one-stop App Store for the iPhone, made downloading programs like games and utilities for the device easy by using the phone itself. Google is doing the same thing with the new Android Market for Android phones, and next March, Research In Motion will start its own application store for BlackBerrys.

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WiMax launch in Baltimore is key for Sprint

The modem looks more like a coffeemaker or other home appliance than a means of quickly moving large data files, such as movies, to your computer.

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Camera combo devices not a one-stop solution

Nintendo’s new DS portable game player will include a camera, and Samsung is coming out with a phone that includes an 8-megapixel camera, while Sony is reportedly working on a 12-megapixel camera phone.

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Touchscreens getting thumbs up

With Nokia announcing its first touchscreen phone today, all major manufacturers will now have such phones on the market or in the works, in hopes they will appeal to consumers the same way Apple’s iPhone does.

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Texting, driving don't mix, readers say

Kristy Rexrode doesn’t need to read about the perils of text messaging while driving a vehicle.

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Make your own 911 cell plan

As Hurricane Ike continues its path toward Texas, phone companies and wireless carriers are preparing. Are you?

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The Kindle DX is not a rock star like its sibling, the Kindle 2. The DX is bigger, more expensive, and can be tedious to use.

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TV stations around the country will replace their analog broadcasts for a few minutes today with reminders that those broadcasts will disappear completely in three weeks.

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For the first time in nearly two years, the iPhone faces a showdown with what could be a true iPhone challenger - the Palm Pre.

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With additional mobile TV subscription services and per-episode downloads becoming available, consumers have lots of choices available for television 'snacking' on the small screen, as one analyst terms it.

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Kindle for iPhone is excellent, but is by no means the only e-book reader available.

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It seems like cell phones have a market lifespan as long as the average American's attention span, especially for cell phoneaholics who dream in CDMA and GSM.

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Congress appears poised to grant a four-month delay in the upcoming shutdown of analog TV broadcasts, though broadcasters still will be allowed to go all-digital earlier if they want.

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The House has defeated a bill to postpone the upcoming transition from analog to digital television broadcasting by four months to June 12.

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"App stores," where phone users can download programs onto their phones "are quickly becoming an expected part of the smartphone experience," says one expert in the wake of Research In Motion's announcement it will have an application storefront for its BlackBerry smartphones.

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It's suspected, but not known for sure yet, that that the engineer of a Los Angeles Metrolink commuter train may have been text messaging when the train ran a stop signal, crashing into an oncoming freight engine.

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Even if you don't live along the Gulf Coast, the lessons learned since Katrina, and before that, Sept. 11, about the vulnerability of communications networks are important for everyone.

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As of Monday, there was a 'bug �fix' released for the iPhone. You apparently had to find out about it by trolling iPhone-related Web sites or setting up a Google news alert for "iPhone fixes."

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Social networking programs represent some of the location-based services that are starting to take hold as mobile users move more of their day-to-day lives onto their phones.

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Microsoft is launching a new campaign to try to get consumers and businesses to take a second look at Windows Vista, its much-maligned computer operating system. Some believe the company's stronger push on Vista's behalf is long overdue.

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A GPS receiver is one of the� new features of the iPhone 3G, which has several location-based navigation programs for it. But none of them, so far, offer voice-based navigation with turn-by-turn directions, and it may be months before such a program is available.

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I thought Sen. Russ Feingold made for an excellent representative of this practical point of view on MSNBC's "Countdown" last night.

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You won't have to buy a new iPhone to get a new iPhone.� Millions of current iPhone owners will be able to download the phone's free 2.0 software Friday that will let them use Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, as well as access Apple's new App Store, which could ultimately offer t …

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Welcome, California and Washington, to Version 2.0 of driving and talking on the cell phone. Drivers in other states have been living for awhile with handheld cell phone bans, and there are a growing number of Bluetooth hands-free devices that can help.

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The smartphone wars - and hype -appear to be in full heat. Two weeks before the second-generation iPhone goes on sale, the Samsung Instinct, dubbed an "iPhone killer," looks like it's appealing to buyers' instincts.

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Windows XP, R.I.P. - at least for most buyers of new PCs. On Monday, Microsoft will stop selling copies of the operating system to retailers and computer manufacturers.

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They're the Cadillacs of smartphones, and the choices of the �ber-hip. How do you decide whether to go the iPhone or BlackBerry route?

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Sales of smartphones are up, at a time when cell phone sales are slowing in the United States,­ down 22 percent in the first quarter this year compared to the first quarter of 2007, according to The NPD Group.

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Although effective obesity prevention leads to a decrease in costs of obesity-related diseases, this decrease is offset by cost increases due to diseases unrelated to obesity in life-years gained.

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You've likely heard all about the successful experiments. Not just the "big bets" as Gates likes to call them, or the interesting things that happen at Microsoft Research, but projects that almost never made it to market, like J. Allard's Xbox. But what about the flops?

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Voice recognition, Internet connectivity, multi-zone sound systems, security and surveillance. There are a lot of options open for homeowners. But up until this point, there hadn't been much out there for people who wanted to know how to wire them.

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