Brad Chacos

It's still early, but the numbers don't look so good for Windows 8, Microsoft's bold new touch-friendly operating system. Net Applications' stats show Windows 8 with just 1.72 percent of the market a...

Nokia may not have tossed its complete lot in with Windows Phone, after all. The Finnish company is reportedly in talks with Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Compal Electronics to develop a 10-inch Windows RT...

Sony's been bulking up its Xperia smartphone line in anticipation of the holiday rush, and its newest addition, the Xperia TL, just happens to be James Bond's phone in the upcoming Skyfall movie. Whil...

Have you put off buying a new handset in order to wait for the looming iPhone 5? You may not need to wait for long if a couple of new reports are true. This morning, the iLovers over at iMore reporte...

The rumors are true: HTC has indeed been working on a 5-inch Android phone to rival the Galaxy Notes and LG Intuitions of the world. But while the HTC J Butterfly's display is indeed the star of the s...

Apple's reputation for building hard-to-fix devices didn't dissuade hordes of people from preordering the iPhone 5 or camping outside of Apple Stores early this morning, and it turns out that's a good...

When Microsoft revealed that the Surface Pro would only last half as long on a charge as the Surface RT tablet, the geeks of the Internet shook their heads. "Should've waited for Haswell," they said c...

Mountain Lion is preparing to pounce: according to MacRumors.com, Apple sent developers the "golden master" version of the next iteration of OS X yesterday, right on schedule for the previously announ...

Google Maps may be the most eagerly awaited app to land in the iOS App Store today, but streaming video lovers will be happy to hear that an iPhone- and iPod-compatible version of Amazon Instant Video...

The prices of tablets from top-tier manufacturers just keep tumbling down, down, down. Acer's reportedly working on an offering that would make even the $160 price tag of the original Kindle Fire seem...

Google+ users must’ve been especially good this year, because the company has just announced that it's stuffing the service with a bevy of new features just in time for the holidays, along with upda...

The numbers are in and it's no contest: Samsung is the most prolific supplier of phones in the world by a long shot. According to the latest figures from IDC, Samsung shipped a whopping 50.2 million s...

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...

Photos aren't the only aspect of the Android experience getting some love from Facebook. Yesterday, the social giant rolled out a major update to its Messenger app designed to streamline the way you c...

Despite having just a single CPU core, Intel's single-core, x86-based "Medfield" Atom Z2460 processor -- the company's first foray into the competitive world of tablets and smartphones -- and its hype...

Most people focus on the love-it-or-hate-it Metro interface when they think of Windows 8, but the next iteration of Microsoft's classic operating system is coming with a lot of intriguing behind the s...