Monthly Archives: October 2009

Initial response to the new Motorola Droid smartphone on the Verizon Wireless network have been very good, thanks in large part to the updated Android 2.0 operating system. A look at how multiple accounts are handled in the contact list … Continue reading →

MLB debuts its Android app for Game 1 of the World Series. (Credit: MLB) Alex Rodriguez won’t be the only big baseball name making its World Series debut Wednesday night. When the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies take the … Continue reading →

The Droid is in our hot little hands. (Credit: Kent German/CNET) Hooray! We finally have the Motorola Droid in our hands. Though it’s much too early to offer a full critique, we can report that Verizon’s first Google Android device … Continue reading →

(Credit: CNET) CNET Labs finished their panel of battery drain tests for the fifth-generation Apple iPod Nano, and the results are better than expected. Testing for continuous playback of audio and video, the Nano reached an average of 33.6 hours … Continue reading →

(Credit: CNET) CNET Labs finished their panel of battery drain tests for the fifth-generation Apple iPod Nano, and the results are better than expected. Testing for continuous playback of audio and video, the Nano reached an average of 33.6 hours … Continue reading →

(Credit: Gizmodo) Sony is recalling 69,000 Vaio AC adapters, the company announced Wednesday. Insulation inside some VGP-AC19V17 adapters can fail over time, Sony said, posing an electrical shock hazard. The Sony VGP-AC19V17 AC adapter shows up in computers from the … Continue reading →

(Credit: Gizmodo) Sony is recalling 69,000 Vaio AC adapters, the company announced Wednesday. Insulation inside some VGP-AC19V17 adapters can fail over time, Sony said, posing an electrical shock hazard. The Sony VGP-AC19V17 AC adapter shows up in computers from the … Continue reading →

A Peek just for Twitter? (Credit: CrunchGear) Peek, the makers of e-mail- and messaging-only handhelds like the Peek Pronto, are working on a brand-new Peek made only for Twitter. We don’t know too many details about it, such as how … Continue reading →

Sony Ericsson Aino (Credit: Sony Ericsson) Just a few months after it was first announced, Sony Ericsson has officially launched the Aino in the U.S. This unlocked GSM beauty boasts a crisp, 3-inch, 432×240, touch-screen display, plus a slide-out keypad, … Continue reading →

Motorola Droid hands-on photos NEW YORK–Verizon Wireless customers will soon be able to get their hands on the much anticipated Google Android phone called the Droid. The companies officially unveiled the device at an event here. Like most smartphones of … Continue reading →

"Good" is always what you want to see when it comes to the state of your system, isn’t it? (Credit: Screenshot by Dong Ngo/CNET) You get a new computer and it runs great. However, after a while, things start to … Continue reading →

You’re approaching the kitchen sink with raw meat all over your hands. Now what? You contort your hands around to turn on the water without making a mess, or you make a mess and then spend an extra five minutes … Continue reading →

(Credit: Plastic Logic) Plastic Logic and Barnes & Noble announced on Tuesday that Plastic Logic’s Que proReader will be sold through Barnes & Noble’s retail stores and on B&N’s Web site in 2010. The Que is Plastic Logic’s long-awaited e-reader … Continue reading →

Setting up Google Voice voice mail online. (Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) On Tuesday, Google took another step toward bringing Google Voice to the masses, fulfilling the wishes of those who are curious enough to try Google’s brand of visual … Continue reading →