GoToMyPC for iPad (2012) Review By Davey Alba Published 22 March 12 $9.95 We review GoToMyPC for iPad, a remote access app that does a good job of bringing your notebook's desktop to the tablet and is a cinch to set up, despite its steep price.
Samsung Officially Announces Galaxy Tab 7.7 Tablet with 4G LTE for US By Davey Alba Published 9 January 12 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 Nexus 7 Has Magnetic Auto-Wake Sensor, Just Like Apple Smart Cover By Davey Alba Published 12 July 12 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...
Q&A: Inside Amazon’s Silk Browser for Kindle Fire By Davey Alba Published 4 November 11 Amazon.com's the most successful online retailer in the world, but when it comes to the tablet business, it's a newcomer. Its new Kindle Fire tablet comes loaded with Amazon Silk, a web browser that p...
HP Keeps Netbook Alive with New Mini 1104 By Davey Alba Published 23 January 12 Tablet ownership nearly doubled over the holiday gift-giving season, but HP is still making a case for the netbook. Standing firm that the device still has a place in the market, the company today ref...
Hands-on with SAIL, VeriFone's Mobile Payment Card Reader By Davey Alba Published 9 May 12 At CTIA Wireless 2012, venerable point-of-sale equipment maker VeriFone officially launched SAIL, its prime mobile payment system for retailers. The whole system seems uncannily familiar to Square, in...
Yahoo Axis for iOS Review By Davey Alba Published 30 May 12 $0 Boasting a slick interface for searches and easy cross-device syncing, Yahoo Axis is a very good alternative to Apple's Safari browser.
Springpad Note-Organizing App Gets Big Update for 2012 By Davey Alba Published 9 January 12 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...
Google Translate Review By Davey Alba Published 12 November 12 $0 Editor's Choice The Google Translate app has everything you need: dictation, voice recognition, augmented reality (on Android devices) and the deepest language database we've seen.
HP Will Keep Its PC Division, Make Windows 8 Tablets By Davey Alba Published 27 October 11 Hewlett-Packard is staying in the PC business, the company confirmed this afternoon. The number one PC maker announced this past August that it might possibly spin off the Personal Systems Group, but ...
Rumor: Samsung Halting Production on Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 To Go Quad Core (Updated) By Davey Alba Published 17 April 12 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...
Twitter Users to Help Choose New Archbishop of Canterbury By Davey Alba Published 28 March 12 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...
Google Nexus 7 Pre-Order Shipments Delayed, FCC To Blame? By Davey Alba Published 13 July 12 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...
Q&A with Paul Davison, Founder and CEO of Highlight By Davey Alba Published 11 March 12 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 Web App Combines a Little Bit of Pinterest, Quora By Davey Alba Published 12 March 12 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...
Navizon's New Location Technology Lets You Find Your Friends Indoors By Davey Alba Published 27 October 11 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...
Dell Latitude 8 Windows 8 Tablet Specs Leak By Davey Alba Published 25 May 12 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...
T-Mobile Announces 4G Network Expansion, LTE Suppliers and 1 Million Bobsled VoIP Users By Davey Alba Published 8 May 12 T-Mobile, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., made several announcements Monday at CTIA 2012 regarding the expansion of its 4G network efforts. First up, the company stated that it struc...
Samsung Focus 2 Lands on AT&T May 20th, Brings 4G LTE for $50 By Davey Alba Published 7 May 12 The Nokia Lumia 900 is still the premier Windows Phone you can snap up right now, but Samsung is offering a compelling alternative for bargain hunters with its just-announced Focus 2. This 4G LTE smar...
Postagram Review By Davey Alba Published 18 January 12 $0.99 An alternative to the iOS-only Cards app, Postagram provides a good alternative way to send your images as postcards to anywhere in the world.
Motorola Droid 4 To Land on Verizon February 10 for $199 By Davey Alba Published 7 February 12 We first saw the Motorola Droid 4 at CES at the beginning of this year and were delighted by its springy, edge-lit keyboard, so we're quite excited about the announcement that comes to us this morning...
SuperTooth Shows off Melody Headphones, Disco2 Speakers at CTIA By Davey Alba Published 10 May 12 French accessories-maker SuperTooth may not have the best-sounding name in the industry, but its audio products have better-than-decent sound quality. Here at CTIA Wireless 2012, the company made quit...
You Can File Your Taxes for Free on TurboTax for Android over the Weekend By Davey Alba Published 30 March 12 At tonight's Intuit Innovation Gallery Walk in New York City, the software company behind popular tax preparation app TurboTax had a highly useful announcement for attendees (and their respective audi...
360 Panorama Review By Davey Alba Published 18 January 12 $0.99 Getting a wider view of your surroundings and quickly sending it to friends is cool, but poor stitching details disappoint.
Clik for iOS and Android Lets You Throw Video onto Any Screen with a Browser By Davey Alba Published 16 February 12 We've all been there. You're gathered around with some friends at a coffee shop or your apartment when somebody pipes up, "Hey, have you guys seen that new Avengers trailer?" Nope, you haven't. "Here,...
