AT&T released its first Android-powered phone, Motorola Backflip, this weekend. At $100 after rebate it offers a low-cost choice for customers looking for all of the open platform capability that Google offers with its Android operating system. The Backflip features a unique folding keyboard (hence the name) that folds over...

Apple (AAPL) announced today that it would start taking orders for its iPad, the biggest tech product in years, starting March 12. Units, though, won't reach consumer's itchy, news-loving hands until April 3, a few weeks later than originally planned. The 3G version which will enable mobile Internet using...

Today, Google Gesture Search was made available (as part of Google Labs beta software) and here's a quick preview of the new search technology. For those wanting the quick summary: it works as advertised, but doesn't quite dazzle my socks off yet. There are many great things about using an...

According to a report released today by Pew Internet and American Life Project, more Americans are getting their news from the Internet than from newspaper or radio. 61% said in the survey they get at least some news from the Internet, followed by radio (54%), and national and local...

The HP 5102 is an update of HP's successful 5101, a member of their business line of netbooks.

Oh, that display. Like looking through a mail slot.

It's probably something a door-to-door Encyclopedia salesman would never see. Two million dollars just fell out of the sky courtesy of the Google Gods into the lap of Wikipedia, everyone's favorite free-for-all knowledge web site. An announcement was made via Twitter by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and now board member...

There were no product announcements by Google at MWC. However, during his keynote, CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned that Google along with their partners are now shipping 60,000 Android devices daily. That works out to over 21 million units per year, and would place Google in the fourth place after...

Steve Jobs will attempt to set the record straight. In collaboration with former TIME managing editor Walter Isaacson, an official autobiography will be penned about the famous co-founder of Apple computer. There have been many books about Steve Jobs of varying degrees of quality and credibility. And there have also...

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, Microsoft (MSFT) announced Windows Phone 7, the long awaited upgrade to its mobile platform used in about 13% of smartphones. Unlike Apple and RIM (BlackBerry), Microsoft will not manufacture handsets, and instead license the OS to others, a strategy consistent with...