Davey Alba

There’s nothing more frustrating than having your desk or bed be just outside the range of your Wi-Fi network. If you face this dilemma, try a cookie sheet. It can extend your Wi-Fi reach by redirec...

Remember Color, that photo-sharing app that garnered heaps of attention for securing $41 million in venture capital funding pre-launch, only to quickly descend into obscurity once it were live in the ...

Remember Clik, that cool little app that let you throw video onto any screen with a browser? Well, they're here at SXSW, exclusively demoing three new apps for attendees — CrowdTube, Tracks and Ethe...

A new feature called Video Messages will soon be on your Skype app across Mac, iOS and Android devices that you own. Microsoft had reportedly been working on the feature for a few months now, and thos...

LAS VEGAS -- As we tech bloggers are further immersed in a deluge of posts, products and announcements here at CES 2012, one of the things that can become difficult is staying on top of it all. That's...

LAS VEGAS — Whether you've got an affinity for watching cat videos on the Internet or you just like sharing short clips online, you've likely heard of Vimeo, the popular video sharing service. What ...

In a blog post this morning, Google announced that it has acquired QuickOffice, a productivity company whose premiere software suite (of the same name) lets users create, edit and view Microsoft Word,...

Despite some possible misconceptions, Heads-Up Display (HUD) technology isn't just fixed in the realm of army combat or gimmicky commercial tech (Google Glasses, anyone?). Apparently, it's involved in...

LAS VEGAS -- SpeechTrans, a multilingual language translation app, just launched a new service—IntreprePhone—at this year's CES. Available in-app on SpeechTrans, IntreprePhone allows folks w...

There are times when accessories-makers sacrifice durability for design, or vice versa. But Bracketron's new MetalDock for the iPhone 4 and 4S proves this isn't always the case. Revealed this week at ...

AllThingsD just reported that Jon Rubinstein, ex-Apple executive and former Palm CEO, has left HP. The move isn't entirely unexpected, given that Rubinstein left HP's Palm unit last summer to take on...

Typically, a 100% figure on your battery indicator means it's time to pull the plug. But this may not be true for your new iPad, according to new research by Dr. Raymond Soneira of DisplayMate Technol...

These days, messaging apps are a dime a dozen, and word of any new releases is sure to induce some groans and questions. So is it even possible to distinguish oneself from the gaggle of text apps avai...

In the day and age, owning multiple cards--credit, debit, loyalty, et al.--is just a given. What's really inconvenient is having to bring them everywhere all the time and risk losing one or two of the...

LAS VEGAS — At Samsung's press conference at CES 2012, the company announced that the Galaxy Tab 7.7 would soon be coming to our shores, offered through Verizon Wireless (which means it'll get full ...

Google hasn't listed this as an official feature on its recently unveiled Nexus 7, but it looks like the tablet sports the same auto-wake sensor we first saw in the iPad 2's Smart Cover. The sensor au...

Our friends over at Netbook News have just dropped some interesting news about the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. Supposedly, one of their inside sources at Samsung Korea has just informed them that...

There's no doubt that Twitter has by now ingrained itself as an extremely useful tool for techies, social media mavens and even regular old joes. Here are some of the things folks routinely use it for...

The official word from Google on the Nexus 7 release date is "mid-July," but consumers keen to get their mitts on the tablet have likely put in their pre-orders by now. Unfortunately, it looks like th...

If you've been following the news about SXSW 2012, you've surely heard of Highlight, the location-based social network startup that's all abuzz at the SXSW Interactive conference down in Austin, Texas...

Trails is a little tricky to explain. The site, in alpha version for now, was one of the web apps we saw being demoed at SXSWi's Startup Spotlight. It looks like Pinterest, but functions very differen...

GPS has established itself as the navigation technology people turn to when cruising roads and highways, but what about simpler predicaments—like when you've lost a friend inside the mall? Navizon h...

Thanks to a rogue system specs slide snapped up by Neowin, details of Dell's upcoming Windows 8 tablet, the Dell Latitude 8, have materialized ahead of its impending launch later this year.According t...