May 3, 2016 Best gear of the year 2014 Innovation, I'm sorry to say, was not a hallmark of the technology world in 2014. There were plenty of updated gadgets and gimcracks — from thinner tablets to networked, singing light bulbs — but few standout products. Nevertheless, over the course of testing hundreds of high-tech items, from cars to TVs, I found a few devices with the kind of utility and ingenuity that make them worthy of a best of the year designation.
April 22, 2016 How to Recycle Old Electronics We love our devices—our TVs, laptops, tablets, and perhaps most of all, our mobile phones, those pocketable miracles of computing power.
March 23, 2016 What Personal Data Stays on a Phone? The wrangling between the FBI and Apple over an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, Calif., shooters in December highlights an area of confusion for many smartphone users.
March 22, 2016 Update Your Amazon Kindle. Like, Now. If you own an Amazon Kindle, you might want to grab it and turn it on.
March 21, 2016 New Apple iPhone SE and iPad Pro to Arrive Next Week Apple today updated its lower-end offerings, improving its smallest phone and standard tablet with higher-end technology.
March 21, 2016 Hands On With the LG G5 Smartphone Thanks to competitive mimicry within the smartphone industry, many smartphones across leading brands now share the benefits of longer battery life, dazzling displays, better cameras, and other de...
March 8, 2016 Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge Smartphones Look Like Winners The Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge seem to have most, if not all, of the ingredients for being the smartest-designed smartphones on the market.
February 21, 2016 Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge: Memory Upgrades Are Back Despite what management consultants may say, not all change is good, particularly regarding smartphone design.
February 21, 2016 Radical New LG G5 Smartphone has Swap-In Modules How great would it be if a state-of-art smartphone you love today could be easily upgraded to keep up with the advances of tomorrow?
February 20, 2016 Comcast Data Cap: The ISP Wants You to Pay for Netflix Binges If you like to think of subscription services like Netflix as an all-you-can-eat buffet of streaming videos, some Internet service providers want to put you on a crash diet.
