Good advice from Gizmodo: DON’T buy a notebook now.
Usually, when folks ask whether to buy a notebook now or wait for the next big thing, my recommendation is simple: If you need a new system now, buy it now. If you wait for the next version, presuming...
View ArticleAsk TechBlog: What case do you use to protect your mobile device?
If you’re smart, you protect your mobile device with some kind of case. Nothing’s worse than fumbling and dropping your smartphone or tablet, then watching helplessly as its screen cracks upon contact...
View ArticleMac users get pricier Orbitz offerings? Sometimes Windows users do, too.
For some time now, the Wall Street Journal has been running a series on how personal information gleaned from users’ online activities can be used to shape digital marketing. The concept that site...
View ArticleThe Digitalia Collection: How the TechBlog community protects its devices
Last week I asked TechBlog community members to sound off on which cases and covers they use to protect their smartphones and tablets. I’ve compiled the results into the photo gallery above. The...
View ArticleGameStop wants to sell you a used iPhone
With sales of more than $9.5 billion and profits of almost $340 million, you wouldn’t exactly think of GameStop as a company on the ropes. But the people who run the leading purveyor of computer and...
View ArticleAlmost back to the future: Amazon.com participating in Texas’ Tax-Free Weekend
In July, Amazon.com began collecting sales taxes on purchases made in Texas, the result of a settlement between the online retailer and the state’s comptroller. Sadly, the tax-free ride for Amazon’s...
View ArticleIs that guy a shoplifter, or someone using EasyPay at the Apple Store?
Apple makes it ridiculously easy to shop in their retail stores if you’ve got an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad on you. Using the company’s shopping app, you can scan a product’s bar code, pay for it on...
View ArticleWant to pre-order an iPhone 5, Houston? Set your alarm for the wee hours
Apple and carriers that will offer the iPhone 5 in the United States will begin taking online pre-orders for the smartphone at 12:01 a.m. PDT on Friday. And that’s bad news for Houstonians, except for...
View ArticleApple’s latest stores are gorgeous . . . and loud
If you’ve been in the Apple Store in the upscale Highland Village Shopping Center, you know that it’s beautiful, sunny, always crowded and very, very loud. In fact, the decibel level is often one of...
View ArticleThe digital puppy: Think long and hard before giving a smartphone
When people ask me about buying a smartphone as a gift for someone they care about, I suggest that it’s not the simplest of presents. “It’s kind of like giving someone a puppy,” I say. “It’s cool when...
View ArticleAbout that Rocketfish iPhone 5 case … [Updated]
Remember the clear-silicone Rocketfish case I bought for my new iPhone 5? I praised it, but expressed concern that, like a lot of clear products, it would yellow. Well, it did just that, but went even...
View ArticleIs T-Mobile’s JUMP worth jumping to T-Mobile?
If you're the kind of smartphone owner who's just gotta have the latest and greatest device all the time, you probably started salivating with Wednesday's announcement from T-Mobile about its new JUMP...
View ArticleGot a smartphone? Retailers may be tracking you
Most smartphone users also leave Wi-Fi turned on, which lets them quickly connect to available networks and use less cellular data. But that practice may also be giving some retailers detailed...
View ArticleVerizon unveils Edge, its own fast-phone-upgrade program
Verizon followed T-Mobile and AT&T Thursday, laying out the details for its own program to let customers get early smartphone upgrades. Unfortunately, it's more like AT&T's program than...
View ArticleWant an iPhone 5s on Friday? Good luck with that. [Updated]
Interested in buying an iPhone 5s on Friday? Apple's latest high-end smartphone goes on sale at 8 a.m. in retail stores, and just after 2 a.m. CDT on its website. But reports indicate turning your...
View ArticleTarget giving $200 gift card for 1st-gen iPads
If you've got an original iPad – the one Steve Jobs introduced back in 2010 – you know that it's only minimally useful today. That first iPad, cool as it was at the time, can't be updated past iOS 5...
View ArticleSurprise! Apple’s now selling the iPad Mini with Retina display online [Updated]
When Apple unveiled new iPads last month, it gave a firm date for the start of sales of the 9.7-inch iPad Air, but was more vague about the highly anticipated, Retina display vision of the 7.9-inch...
View ArticleReview: Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Router EA6500
[Note: This is the first in a series of reviews of wireless routers that use the new 802.11ac Wi-Fi protocol.] I’ve been partial to Linksys wireless routers since I set up my first home network....
View ArticleMeet Vertu, maker of the world’s most expensive cellphones
What’s the most you would be willing to pay for a quality, well-designed mobile phone? $200? $500? Maybe a little more? The world’s most expensive cellphone goes for about $15,000 – and it’s not even a...
View ArticleWhat tech gadgets are on your holiday wish list?
Christmas is just around the corner, have you been good enough to deserve any of these hot tech gadgets for the holidays?
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