Brad Chacos

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...

Stymied by the new tile-centric design of Windows 8? You aren't the only one. Noted usability expert Jakob Nielsen conducted a small-scale test of Microsoft's new-look operating system by dropping a d...

Well, that didn’t take long. A single day after Instagram yanked the ability to view pictures directly inside of Twitter feeds, the 140-character-loving social network fired back with the introducti...

Macy's and hip hop star turned fashion mogul Sean Jean -- a.k.a. Puff Daddy, a.k.a. P Diddy -- have joined forces to give tacky sweaters a delightfully high-tech twist. At first glance, the grey shawl...

Samsung isn't the only one with a Windows 8 hybrid up its sleeve. PocketNow has obtained photos of just such a device hailing from Sony, and the Sony VAIO Duo 11 looks attractive enough -- and busines...

Password recovery tools fill a very useful place in today's login-crazy Web, but the helpful boon has turned into a hindering bane for Skype users. For at least two months, hackers have known -- and p...

Asus has unveiled the Padfone 2, the second iteration of the company's innovative Android-powered device that's two devices in one. The Padfone 2 is a powerful smartphone that slides into its companio...

Meet the Ubi: a hands-free, hassle-free "ubiquitous" computer (get the name?) designed to plug in to a wall socket and sit there, silently waiting and watching with its numerous environmental sensors,...

Several pundits lamented the iPhone 5 as a lackluster update, but if preorder numbers are any indication, actual customers think it's anything but: the iPhone 5 is already shattering the lofty sales r...

BlackBerry 10's hitting the streets in all its newfound touchscreen glory in just 19 days, and despite RIM's tight-lipped stance surrounding the upcoming hardware, leaked images have been hitting the ...

Faced with quarter after quarter of sluggish sales, PC manufacturers have been pining for a savior that just hasn't materialized. This year, it's Windows 8's turn to try out the hero role, but a recen...

Microsoft isn't the only company going touch-crazy with its desktop operating system. A new report claims that Google is working on an in-house Chromebook with a touch screen display. If true, this de...

Where are the apps? That's the question we asked in our review of the Microsoft Surface, and it's one of the bigger question marks plaguing Microsoft's Windows 8 launch. At today's Build 2012 kick-off...