Windows Phone 7's bogus 'too late' problem
Want to dismiss Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 outright? Simply wave a hand in the air and say "too little, too late." Everyone's doing it (myself included).
Stories by Jared Newman
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Google Chrome OS might be released in a month
Google's Chrome OS is still on track for a holiday launch, and could be released in one month.
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Amazon Kindle Singles: A Short Wishlist
Just as MP3s changed the way we listen to music, Amazon wants to shake up our reading habits with Kindle Singles.
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Windows Phone 7: Problems out of the gate
No matter what Microsoft reveals at its Windows Phone 7 event, the company faces some huge hurdles in the race to create a popular smartphone platform. The major problem for Windows Phone 7 is that it's three years late to the party thrown by Apple, and another operating system, Google's Android, has already become the iPhone's main competitor.
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Nielsen: iPhone 4 fails to stave off Android invasion
The last time Nielsen declared Android to be the most popular smartphone operating system in the United States, Google's victory was incomplete. Apple hadn't launched the iPhone 4 yet, and sales were bound to spike in the months that followed.
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4 ways Google's URL shortening service can win
The Google URL shortening service Goo.gl, that allows you to transform long Web addresses into short easy to remember links, was opened to the public Friday. After nine months of testing the Goog.gl service, Google now joins the ranks of Bit.ly, TinyURL, and Ow.ly. All of these services cater to people who despise long URLs and use services such as Twitter to share Web address and limit messages to 140 characters.
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Apple TV jailbreak: Imagine the possibilities
The jailbreaking of Apple TV, days after shipping, is no surprise. The real delight will come in the weeks and months ahead, as hackers and developers start figuring out what to do with Apple's liberated set-top box.
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Xmarks considers comeback as a paid service
Fans of the bookmark, password and tab sync service Xmarks have spoken, and the response was so encouraging that Xmarks is no longer dead-set on shutting down.
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Google phone gallery aids Android shoppers
The Web page once reserved for Google's Nexus One phone is now a monument to Android phones in general -- or at least the ones Google likes best.
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The BlackBerry PlayBook is RIM's tablet
Research in Motion's tablet is not the BlackPad, but the BlackBerry PlayBook, a 7-inch rival to Apple's iPad and Samsung's Galaxy Tab. The tablet will ship "early 2011" according to RIM and sports some impressive specs including support for dual-processors, Flash support, and video resolutions up to 1080i.
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4 ways a RIM tablet could smoke the iPad, Galaxy Tab
Research in Motion's tablet, rumored for months, is nearly official, according to the Wall Street Journal's unnamed sources. If the report is accurate, RIM could reveal the so-called BlackPad next week during a developer conference in San Francisco.
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Twitter mouse-over flaw spawns potentially dangerous links
A security flaw has made Twitter's website a chaotic and potentially unsafe place, filled with annoying pop-up windows that activate just by rolling the mouse over another user's tweets.
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Nokia exec slams Android as N8 lags
What a day for Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's outgoing executive formerly in charge of the mobile phone giant's phone division.
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The HP Tablet Is Here … In a Printer
HP's new printer tablet is not the "Slate" you're looking for, but it does lend a pinch of crazy to a tablet market that will soon get pretty crowded.
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From Russia with Android: Dual-screen smartphone
A Russian company plans to spice up the Android formula with a smartphone that has screens on the front and back sides.
