The Many Flavors of 4G
Gadgets All of the mobile carriers are liberally tossing around the same "4G" label for their new networks and gadgets here at CES, but the real meaning of the word is not as clear-cut Almost every...
View ArticleHTC Evo 3D Review: The Country's First Glasses-Free 3-D Smartphone
Gadgets Sprint's new stereoscopic smartphone boasts a 3-D display and camera--but is it worth the (literal) headache? HTC's Evo line of Android smartphones is big on firsts: The Evo 4G was the first...
View ArticleHands-On: Ditching Cards and Cash for the Google Wallet App
Gadgets Blindly charging away your savings with a tap of a phone Until today, that NFC chip on your Sprint Nexus S 4G hasn't been living up to its potential. Today, though, today Google and Sprint...
View ArticleYou'll Soon Be Able to Buy a Firefox Phone
Gadgets Mozilla has been making some small moves into mobile with the Firefox browser for Android, but today the company announced much bigger plans: Firefox OS, previously known as "… Mozilla has...
View ArticleIn First U.S. Accounting of Wireless Phone Surveillance, Carriers Reveal 1.3...
Technology So here's the scary number: the major wireless carriers (Verizon, AT&T;, Sprint, T-Mobile, and a couple little guys like U.S. Cellular and Cricket) revealed that in total, in… So here's...
View ArticleFYI: How Can I Protect My Cell Phone Data Records From Law Enforcement...
Technology Our wireless carriers hand over data from millions of users per year. How can we protect ourselves? When it came to light that law enforcement has issued millions of annual requests/demands...
View ArticleVerizon, AT&T, Sprint, And Even The New T-Mobile Are Trying To Screw You
Gadgets T-Mobile announced its new "Uncarrier" strategy--no more two-year contracts, pay for the phone up front. It's a step in the right direction, but not enough. Let's ban all smartphone subsidies...
View ArticleThe Physics Of Usain Bolt's Record-Breaking Sprint
Science Usain Bolt's historic 100m dash at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. In 2009, at the World Championships in Berlin, Usain Bolt beat his own previous world record by 0.11 seconds, running...
View ArticleGoogle Wants To Be Your Wireless Carrier
Technology The service would let phones jump between Wi-Fi and 4G Forget being your search engine and email service: now Google wants to be your wireless carrier as well. Forget being your search...
View ArticleComparing the limits of 'unlimited' smartphone data plans
Technology You get access to lots of data, but it may not be very fast. Explore the subtleties of unlimited data plans from Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T…
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