Davey Alba

Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet just launched last week, but iFixit has already taken it apart—and the repairability verdict looks dismal indeed. If you're planning to pick up this tablet, make sure ...

In a controversial charitable experiment at SXSW Interactive, 13 homeless men are roaming the festival grounds as wireless hotspots, allowing tech-heads and writers to quickly blog and update their on...

LAS VEGAS — It's generally accepted knowledge that watching videos on your smartphone's screen can be a nuisance. But doing it on the LG Spectrum, the company's newest 4G LTE smartphone with a 4.5-i...

Location is king. That's the message we're getting here in Austin, Texas, where a slew of social discovery apps leveraging the feature have emerged from the tangle of nascent startups at SXSW Interact...

Six Adobe Touch apps have touched down in the Android Market this month, available for Android tablets that run version 3.1 or later of Google's OS and have screen sizes of at least 8.9 inches. The su...

We've known about Apple's special education event for a while, but now we've got the official word. At the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Apple's VP of marketing Phil Schiller announced that they...

It's WWDC day! Naturally, that means a lot of interesting tidbits about the current state of Apple's business, and onstage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Tim Cook just dropped a huge bomb abo...

“Will it be sunny in Miami this weekend?”“Bring your sunglasses, it’s going to be nice in Miami.”No, this isn’t a conversation between two friends. It’s an exchange between user and a sm...

Like most desk-bound workers, Steve spent a lot of time in front of a computer and barely made any effort to go to the gym. And, like most other engineers at his online marketing company, he loved to ...

It starts out with the small suspicion that something is wrong. You notice your laptop takes much longer than usual to complete a simple task. Or you open that file for your big report only to find it...

Day 3 of Computex 2012 has just wrapped up, and things at Taiwan's biggest tech trade show are poppin. We got our hands on Samsung's Series 5 Ultra Touch, Microsoft made some big statements, we played...

Thanks to the ruckus surrounding "Girls Around Me," we now know how easy it is for apps and other services to repackage our personal data for disturbingly creepy ends. The Girls Around Me app might be...

Dolphin Browser, the first gesture-based web browser app, just got a handy update: a couple of add-ons from note-taking top dog Evernote. Now you can get Skitch and Evernote baked right into the brows...

LAS VEGAS -- Musicians and podcasters, stomp for joy. IK Multimedia just released a new trio of hardware at CES this week, expanding on their existing iRig line. This includes the MIX, the Stomp and ...

Well, here's a surprising twist. According to Fox News' sources, HP's hardware team has been testing Windows 8 on HP TouchPads. The company had announced back in August that it planned to discontinue ...

Tapbots, makers of the new Tweetbot for iPad, have gained a solid reputation as developers of some of the most highly-polished apps available on the iTunes Store. It’s truly well-deserved. After all...

Apple's iPhone 4S is coming this week, but that doesn't mean it won't have any new competition. In a welcome opener to this week's CTIA event, Samsung's rumored LTE slider, the Stratosphere, has been ...

iTunes is telling me that I currently own 337 apps. Seriously. I've arranged them into neat little folders on my phone—it's a great way to intimidate that pesky friend who always grabs my device to ...

Digital payments are hitting in a big way at SXSW Interactive. Today, in an exclusive talk for conference attendees, PayPal VP for global product and experience Sam Shrauger took the wraps off a bra...

LAS VEGAS — A surprising tandem in Griffin and Crayola has emerged at CES 2012. Earlier this morning in Las Vegas, the duo unveiled a new lineup of kid-friendly apps and audio accessories. In a fol...

So many rumors are churned out with the onset of a new Apple product that it can become difficult to tell which ones stray toward the more reliable. But some sources are known to be more trustworthy t...