Best & Worst Laptops of 2010: Know Before You Buy in 2011!

Consumers are not always aware of what is happening in the market until they need to buy something. Computers can cost a tidy sum, and even budget PCs run a few hundred dollars. It is important to know which are rated as good buys, and which are wastes of money.Best Laptops of 2010 * Since taste varies, choosing the best laptop computers of 2010 is not easy, but some were clearly ahead of the game based on reviews and sales figures. Some that made the cut are: * Apple MacBook Pro: Mac lovers will be thrilled that this portable is at the top when it comes to the best of the best. Apple is known for its technical support which is way ahead of...

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HDTV in the News: What's Upcoming, & What's a Myth

The technology surrounding HDTV gets a lot of attention. While some of the HDTV news is pretty accurate, there is also some of it that's pretty mythical. That's mainly because the technology is always changing and advancing, and it's often hard for the industry to stay ahead of the new developments that have occurred.It's also due in part to over-zealous consumers who may often mistakenly spread or start their own idea of HDTV news before the facts are proven.All of this goes to prove how popular the technology has become and how it's going to continue to impact the industry. With so many changes, it is hard to keep up with it, but we've compiled...

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iPad 2 Could Be Unveiled March 2

Apple will reportedly unveil the iPad 2 on March 2, giving the world its first glimpse of the successor to the iPad, which has sold more than 15 million units. This leaves the tech world just under a week to rev up even more speculation surrounding the iPad 2 feature set, as well as keep a watchful eye on Android competitors arriving on the market.Amid reports of iPad 2 delays until June, tech pundits corroborated their sources and believe March 2 to be the date Apple will unveil the new tablet. Kara Swisher at All Things Digital scooped the date, John Gruber of Daring Fireball says this "sounds right on schedule" and Miguel Heft at The New York...

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iPhone 4 vs. Droid Incredible a Verizon smartphone showdown

The iPhone 4 is now on Verizon's network. But the Droid line of smartphones, running Google's open-source Android operating system, is already there ... and it's not going anywhere!In an earlier article, I compared the iPhone 4 to the Droid X, Verizon's top-of-the-line Android smartphone. Now let's see how it compares to the Droid Incredible: Verizon's budget Droid, at only $99.Droid doesHTC says that the Droid Incredible was inspired by an Italian sports car. It's not as minimalist as the iPhone 4's sleek, industrial design, but the ridges along the back help you grip the phone (per the Engadget review), and the extra buttons on the front serve...

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The 5 Best iPad Financial Apps

The Apple iPad is another great gadget combining portability with power in enabling customers to view data, graphics, and documents wherever they may be. There are many great iPad financial applications that assist customers in managing their money.The 5 best iPad financial apps can be divided into the following categories:1.) Calculator2.) Budget3.) Expenses4.) News5.) InvestmentsBest iPad Calculator App: powerOne Financial CalculatorA good, solid calculator for crunching numbers on every day bills like car insurance to more involved cash flow calculations is always valuable. The powerOne Financial Calculator, made by Infinity Softworks, transforms...

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Buying mobile phones – The tips on getting cheap phones

If you want to buy cheap mobile phones, you will have to decide whether you need a phone with various features or if you need just a simple one. Generally a cell phone providing simple features is available at low prices. However, if you think that you would like to buy a cell phone with different technical and advanced attributes, you will have to avail of various offers on the internet. Buying cheap mobiles There are various ways through which you can buy cheap mobile phones. ¶ You will have to research on the web on different mobile types and the associated features. You will be able to find different kinds of phones of numerous...

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Sprint to sell dual-screen 'Echo' smartphone

Sprint Nextel Corp. on Monday unveiled a smart phone with two screens, one stacked on top of the other. The top screen slides out and can be snapped it into place so that the two lay side by side, producing screen space that rivals a tablet computer.The phone, called the Echo, is made by Japanese manufacturer Kyocera Corp. and has screens that are each the size of an iPhone's display. Put together, they create a larger space for typing e-mails, playing games and watching videos. The resulting display is still about half the size of an iPad's. But it's still a larger surface area than those found on most phones.If people wish, they can use just...

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New iPhone app helps with confession

A new "Confession" application for Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch has received the blessing of a Catholic bishop."Confession: A Roman Catholic App," is the first program for the Apple devices created by a South Bend, Indiana-based company called "Little iApps."Its developer, Patrick Leinen, said the app was designed to be used in the confessional and was intended "for those who frequent the sacrament and those who wish to return."He said the app, which provides a step-by-step guide to the sacrament, had received the imprimatur from Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Fort Wayne-South Bend diocese, the first program to receive the stamp of the church.Leinen...

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Android tops iPhone in US: comScore

Google's Android surged past Apple's iPhone last quarter and is closing in on the Blackberry as the most popular smartphone platform in the United States, market tracking firm comScore said.According to comScore, 63.2 million Americans owned smartphones at the end of December, up 60 percent from a year earlier.Blackberry maker Research in Motion was the US smartphone leader at the end of the fourth quarter with 31.6 percent of the market but its share fell from 37.3 percent the previous quarter, comScore said.Google's Android mobile operating system was next with a 28.7 percent of the smartphone market at the end of December, up from 21.4 percent...

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AP will test digital ad 'inserts' for smart phones

NEW YORK – The Associated Press is developing mobile versions of the advertising and coupon inserts that come with weekend newspapers.The news service said Friday that its board has approved testing the new offering, called iCircular.Advertisers would be able to target customers on their devices by ZIP code. Readers would be able to search for specific products and share deals with friends.The AP said newspapers would sell the ads and build the iCircular feature into mobile versions of their websites and applications for smart phones and tablet computers.The development comes as companies such as Groupon offer services for local advertisers to...

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Corning expects high demand for TV glass

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Corning Inc. said Friday it expects its annual sales to grow more than 50 percent to $10 billion by 2014, driven by surging demand for ultra-thin glass used in television monitors, smart phones and touch-screen tablets. Its stock climbed to a nearly three-year high.The world's biggest maker of liquid-crystal-display glass predicts the global appetite for flat-panel LCD TVs, computers and mobile devices will drive up industry volume to around 5 billion square feet in 2014 from 3.1 billion square feet now.Demand for LCD glass in 2011 will run between 3.6 billion and 3.8 billion square feet, it said.Corning's revenue reached $6.6...

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85 percent of US adults own cellphone: survey

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Mobile phones are the most popular gadget among adult Americans followed by computers, digital music players, game consoles and electronic book readers, according to a new survey.The survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project found that 85 percent of Americans 18 and older own a cellphone and 90 percent of all adults live in a household with at least one cellphone.Fifty-nine percent of American adults own a desktop computer, 52 percent own a laptop computer and four percent own a tablet like Apple's iPad, Pew said in the study, "Generations and their gadgets."Forty-seven percent own an iPod or...

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Nook and Kindle: Which e-Reader is Best for You?

People don’t read anymore, right? We’re all too busy watching TV, playing video games, and surfing the internet to care about literary masterpieces. Then someone should tell that to Amazon and Barnes & Noble, makers of the Kindle and Nook e-readers respectively, who each have a have huge success with their e-readers. People are reading as much now as they ever were and maybe even more now that we have thousands of titles available to us at the touch of a button through e-book services. If you’re in the market to download the Jane Austen library, but are not sure which e-reader to invest in, here are a few things to consider.Connectivity and...

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LG to show off glasses-free 3D Android phone

Small 3D displays that don't require glasses are in, and LG plans to show off what it's calling the first "full" 3D smartphone at a mobile conference later this month.The LG Optimus 3D isn't really the first Android phone to do the glasses-free 3D trick—after all, we heard word of the no-glasses, 3D-enabled Sharp Galapagos in November, while the Samsung W960 (granted, just a feature phone) beat everyone to the glasses-free 3D phone party last May.But LG is promising a "full" 3D experience thanks to a dual-lens camera capable of taking 3D pictures, which (presumably) you'll be able to view instantly on the handset's 3D display.So, how big of a...

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