It wasn't that long ago that it was next to impossible to pickup a new laptop for under $1000, but now you can regularly find them for just a few hundred dollars. And there's no arguing that people are becoming more and more connected thanks to the Internet access proved by cellphone networks. When you combine the falling prices of laptops

An official press release from Microsoft puts to rest concern that Microsoft Surface is really just vaporware. Starting on April 17th, select AT&T stores will receive the Microsoft Surface computers to change the way that consumers purchase mobile devices. Instead of just looking, they will be "exploring their mobile worlds using touch and device recognition technology." The first stores to

Microsoft just released Windows Mobile 6.1 yesterday, and they've added some features that are actually pretty slick. The new home screen is really the focal point of the release. With it you have several "panels" that get expanded as you scroll up and down over them. A video demonstration of this (and other features) is at the end

Each year, communicating through text messages continues to grow and has now turned into an extremely popular communication medium. Millions upon millions of text messages are sent every single month and carriers only anticipate that the number of messages sent by their subscribers will continue to grow. Amazon knows this and obviously sees a tremendous value in it because they have just launched a new service called Amazon TextBuyIt.

TextBuyIt is a brand new

Over at ZDNet, Garrett Rogers is always pretty good about keeping tabs on Google. Recently he stumbled upon a new service that Google doesn't want the public to see quite yet because it was added to the robots.txt file. The robots.txt protocol is used to prevent web spiders and web robots (like what search engines use) from accessing certain parts

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Sprint had two pretty big announcements today, one of which they hope everyone catches wind of and another they hope is quickly forgotten about. Lets start with the bad news first. Sprint, despite being the third largest wireless carrier in the United States, posted a loss of $29.5 billion for the fourth-quarter. Stock holders definitely can't be happy since today they hit

If cameras became good enough in cell phones, would you ditch your stand-alone camera? What I mean by that is this, right now I use the camera in my phone on occasion for those times when I have forgotten my camera and there's something that needs to be captured.  I prefer a quality camera though, and so at this point, I could never