Brad Chacos

Early in the year, Apple found itself rocked by a series of serious abuse allegations at the factories of its Chinese suppliers; at the time Li Qiang, the head of the New York-based China Labor Watch,...

LG's U.S. plans for its new 4.7-inch Optimus phones began to solidify late yesterday, as the company announced that the quad-core Optimus G flagship phone will appear on Sprint and AT&T shelves by...

Facebook isn't the only company that has billions to toss at innovative young tech startups; late last night, the Wall Street Journal claimed that Microsoft flexed its money muscle at Yammer, an enter...

With 2012 entering its closing quarter, the Ultrabook phenomenon hasn't performed quite as phenomenally as expected.  Even though Intel's brain trust has stuck closely to its prediction that the new ...

One Laptop Per Child's plan to expand its scope to manufacturing rugged, low-cost tablets for educational use in third-world countries has been scuttled. The organization's XO 3 tablet has been shelve...

The Fire has officially burned out. Amazon announced today that its entire Kindle Fire stock has been depleted after a successful nine month-run that the company touts as "the most successful product ...

Hybrids, convertibles and newfangled laptop lines won't be the only PCs sporting a Windows 8 makeover when the Tile-centric operating system makes its main street debut on October 26th; expect old fav...

Yesterday's security update for Samsung Galaxy S III phones running on the Sprint network sure seems to be adding a lot of protection to the handsets -- at least for Samsung and Google. So far, the on...

Has your cellular data usage skyrocketed since you've picked up an iPhone 5? You're not the only one -- and it's not your (or Siri's) fault. Several users are reporting that their iPhone 5 is chewing ...

Do you have a need for computing speed, but find yourself grounded with a pokey mechanical hard drive ? If so, Adata's new entry-level SP600 SSD may just be the wallet-friendly flash storage you've be...

The playground is open. Google just sent us an invitation for an October 29th Android event, and those words are prominently displayed across the top. What does that mean? We have some pretty strong i...

Photosynth may be a Microsoft product, but the software's app availability has nevertheless been limited to Apple's iPhone for more than a year. That ended yesterday, however, when a Photosynth app ap...

The second week of the Apple vs. Samsung case began with a bang yesterday, courtesy of a 2010 memo written by Samsung's own president of mobile electronics. In it, J.K. Shin repeatedly calls for a dra...

Microsoft just kicked Zune to the curb with the unveiling of Xbox Music, a new multiplatform $9.99 monthly digital music service launched today on the Xbox 360. It's also coming to the bevy of incomin...

Intel CEO Paul Otellini has announced that he will retire at the company's annual stockholders' meeting in May of next year, bringing an end to his eight-year tenure as the guiding light for the compa...

What does Google Now have in common with the Large Hadron Collider, the Toyota Prius and the Curiosity rover currently blasting rocks with lasers on Mars? All four have won Popular Science's prestigio...

Time to take off the gloves! Yesterday, Google accused Nokia of colluding with Microsoft to stifle innovation in the smartphone industry by transferring over 1,200 collective patents to MOSAID Technol...

Need more proof that tablets are taking over? Just ask Jen-Hsun Huang, the CEO of Nvidia. In the past, Nvidia and its discrete graphics offerings feasted or starved based on the way the winds were blo...

If Razer’s innovative Project Fiona gaming tablet fails, we’ll have nobody to blame but ourselves. In an intriguing twist, Razer has crowdsourced (via its Facebook page) some of the slate’s majo...

ARM's Windows debut isn't exactly off to an auspicious start. Big-name manufacturers such as HP and Toshiba pulled back plans to launch a Windows RT tablet in the months before the operating system's ...

Sony's Xperia line of phones each seems to focus on a specific niche: the Xperia Play goes for gamers, while the various Xperia NXT series handsets target music lovers, Instagram fans and high-definit...

The rumors of an Asus-made Google Nexus tablet have gained more credence thanks to a new entry on a benchmarking website. Android Police's David Ruddock was poking around on Rightware's Power Board wh...

If the Wall Street Journal's multiple sources are correct, the long-rumored iPad mini could be right around the corner; the newspaper claims that Asian suppliers have started producing components for ...

If you’ve been holding your breath, waiting eagerly for touch-friendly Windows 8 apps for Google’s wide world of web services, you can exhale. No, Google hasn’t announced that it’s releasing M...

They may be called smart TVs, but that doesn't stop the vast majority of us from using them as basic boob tubes. A new NPD Group report claims that most people use their Internet-enabled televisions t...