Meghan J. McDonough

According to the Wall Street Journal, Amazon may launch a rental service for digital books. The company would charge users an annual fee to access Amazon's library of digital content, similar to Net...

Apple fanatics. There's one on every list. Feed their craving with one of five great MacBook accessories. Though your Apple fan won't believe it at first, each device makes MacBook computing even more...

Imagine a sub-$100 smartphone with serious processing power that lasts all day (or longer) on a charge. Sounds like a dream device, right? Today, ARM took a serious step toward making that dream come ...

Intel's Ivy Bridge 22nm platform won't appear until the first half of 2012, but the chipmaker rounded up a number of sample Ivy Bridge ultrabooks from the world's leading ODMs to give the public a ta...

In the "wish we'd thought of that" category, Jeff Buske of Larkspur, Colorado, is selling TSA-proof underwear to keep your privates, uh, private while you walk through the new TSA full-body scanners.B...

It's been a wild few days at the CeBIT conference in Germany, where we've seen everything from a pink Samsung Galaxy Note to extra slim ultrabooks to robots dancing suggestively. Below are the most in...

If you've ever watching Windows install updates when you shut down your computer, you know it's a very automated process. Windows Update installs the updates while you walk away from your laptop, then...

LAS VEGAS -- Like a comet in the sky, we just received word at CES from T-Mobile that the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G is coming to its network later this year. It'll be the third phone to take advantage...

It's been a busy week at the Intel Developer Forum conference. On Tuesday, Intel announced it will support Android devices, leading some to believe that Intel and Microsoft had a falling out. Then on ...

Along with showing off a tablet and new Facebook-centric phones, HTC announced updates to three of its most popular phones worldwide-- the Desire, Incredible, and Wildfire. The new devices have all ad...

Google's Android dessert buffet is getting a little longer. BGR is reporting that the next generation of Google's flagship phone may ship in October. Dubbed the Nexus Prime, it will likely be the fir...

It's no secret that RIM is getting cozier with Android, but could the company really let its ace in the hole migrate to it? TechnoBuffalo was tipped off by an anonymous RIM staffer with images of the ...

Although I usually avoid strangers with candy, I couldn't resist trying Tab Candy for Firefox. It was just released for very early alpha testing, but so far, it's incredible. Tab Candy provides a very...

Like everyone else, we here at LAPTOP are enamored with mini-notebooks, but we're concerned about the size of the keyboards. While the HP Mini-Note sports an almost full-size keyboard with much more f...

If you've been procrastinating, haven't done your taxes and are freaking out now, don't worry--there's an app for that. GottaBeMobile has found a 99-cent iOS app called Taxsoftware.com 4868 that makes...

While giving and receiving gifts should ideally be as simple as “Enjoy. I hope you like it!” that’s rarely the case. Notebooks and smart phones in particular are intensely personal products, whi...

As Japan continues to deal with the aftermath of the earthquake that struck the northern part of the country last week, concerns are growing among manufacturers who have plants in Japan and who source...

The iPad is at its best when you're online, but what if a Wi-Fi hotspot isn't available? Sure, you can still read iBooks, play most games, compose (but not send) e-mails, and use iWork, but what about...

Today, Acer officially announced the Aspire S3 at their IFA press conference in Berlin. We saw this ultrabook beauty last month when shots of it leaked under the moniker of the Acer Aspire 3951. It'll...

LAS VEGAS-- If you swing both ways when it comes to desktop OSes, you know the problem well-- you want to transfer something from your PC to your Mac or vice versa. You could use Wi-Fi or a flash driv...

Adding a QR code to your company’s flyers or to you business card is an instant way to communicate your tech savvy to potential customers and it’s not expensive or hard to get started. In fact, a ...

The second day of CTIA flew by just as fast as the first day. While yesterday was dominated by smartphones, today we saw apps and technology that are moving us into the future and redrawing the line b...

Intel made it known today that its Thunderbolt I/O port technology isn't just for Apple. The quick-paced solution for wired data transfers will soon be made available to PCs and the new class of ultra...

If you're an avid photographer or a rabid photo organizer, or if you just love looking through photo albums, Flickr is the social network for you. It's the most widely used free online photo sharing s...