Brad Chacos

RIM's BlackBerry 10 focus may center around the L-series handset, a.k.a. the fully touchscreen BlackBerry, the company isn't leaving staunch QWERTY conventionalists by the wayside. The N-series phone ...

Most of the talk these days may go to Windows 8 and the flood of hybrid devices heading our way in October, but a newly improved update to an early Android tablet has shown up on the radar: the HTC Fl...

Tablet sales may already be booming, but one research group says that Google's getting into the arena just when things are starting to get really good. The analysts at NPD DisplaySearch have gazed int...

Apple wasted little time in identifying eight Samsung phones the company wants banned in the U.S. after it prevailed over its competitor in court, but the judge presiding over the case obviously doesn...

It's confirmed: most of HTC's impressive One series phones are only going to get better. The various HTC One phones already ship with Android 4.0 ICS, but after rumors about a possible Jelly Bean upgr...

Earlier this year, Apple and Foxconn agreed to improve working conditions at Foxconn's Chinese facilities after the Fair Labor Association issued a fairly damning report blasting the manufacturer's of...

The good news: the mechanized locks on hotel doors can't be picked using the old "slide a credit card between the lock and the frame" trick. The bad news: ne'er-do-wells with coding skills and less th...

Could one chip rule all of Apple's future hardware? The Cupertino company is known for its driving desire to integrate hardware and software, and that may soon extend to the brains inside MacBooks. S...

If two CPU cores are good and four cores are better, eight cores must be absolutely mind-blowing, right? We'll know for sure soon, as Samsung just took the stage at CES 2013 to announce the Exynos 5 O...

The  TazPad V2 is as close to impenetrable as an Android tablet gets.  This 7 -inch slate includes a built-in biometric reader, which stores the fingerprint images of authenticated users inside an I...

The Galaxy Note 10.1  is anything but an iPad clone. This bigger cousin to the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note phone-tablet features a built-in S Pen for writing notes, annotating, and taking advantage of apps...

The Editors' Choice award-winning Fitbit Ultra is one of the best fitness-tracking gadgets available in an increasingly crowded market, but rather than resting on its laurels and letting its competiti...

It's official: Windows 8 is not the miracle cure for the sluggish PC market's woes, just as Ultrabooks failed to shoulder the burden last year. So sayeth the NPD Group, which claims that holiday sales...

Kensington has long been known as one of the kings of mobile accessories, offering an array of products ranging from styli to tablet covers. At CES 2013, the company is showing off a small horde of to...

HTC is going to release a Facebook phone? Haven't we been down this path before? Indeed we have -- with mixed results -- but if a new report by Bloomberg is any indication, the new Facebook phone that...

Now that Intel has all but won the battle for the heart and mind of your PC, the company wants to shift focus to the battle for the eyes and ears in your living room. A new report claims that Intel pl...

As more and more of the electronics we use every day are made by Chinese manufacturing firms, is America being put at risk? That's what a new 52-page report by the U.S. House of Representatives' Intel...

Few things can breathe new life into a laptop faster than swapping out a hard disk drive for a solid state drive, but ADATA's hedging its bets with a pair of new mSATA-compatible notebook SSDs announc...

If hardware manufacturers were hoping Windows 8 would jolt sluggish PC sales back to life, the past month has been a rude awakening. So claims the NPD Research Group, which says that Windows laptop sa...

One of the best replacement Android keyboards money can't buy (it's free) just got even better. This morning, Nuance released an update for its Swype keyboard that lets you sync your personal dictiona...

Rumors about a 7-inch iPad mini have been swirling around for a while now; when are we actually going to see the darned thing? Assuming the fabled device is actually in production and not just a figme...

The iPad mini's pint-sized frame was made with portability in mind, and the arrival of a 4G LTE-equipped model at three of the nation's top cellular providers this morning makes it easier than ever to...

The Galaxy Tab 10.1 still isn't as cool as the iPad, but that's a good thing when it comes to Samsung's European plans. Today, a British appeals court upheld an earlier judgment that the Galaxy Tab 10...

Some early mobile Microsoft adoptees have started reporting that the early Windows Phone 8 hero handsets to hit the streets have been acting, well, less than heroic. Unhappy customers have taken to fo...

Slow and steady doesn't win any races in the fast-paced mobile world, but the big carriers still have a reputation for dragging their feet when it comes to certifying and pushing out phone updates. Sp...