We’re just a few days away before the Consumer Electronics Show rolls around yet again.  For the unfamiliar, this is the technology industry’s biggest event. (It’s also the largest trade show in the U.S.) Each year, we get to wager (it’s Vegas, after all) on what tech’s biggest tale will be. In 2009, it was Palm’s entry into the...

2013 will be a year of harsh change for the tech industry. We’ve just experienced five years of rapid, messy and disruptive innovation, and smartphones and tablets aren’t the future any longer — they’re the present. Powerful mobile devices connected to broadband-speed cell networks are now an everyday reality, and it’s going to...

Debating on what HDTV technology to buy? Debate no longer. OK, not too much longer.  For me, personally, I have always liked the Plasma TV better – for me, the deeper blacks and image consistency win over everything else.  For you though, there may be other thing that could sway you to choose another technology. In this television technology trifecta,...

Credit to and written by David Gewirtz for DIY-IT You might think the big decision is about which has the best hardware, but you’d be wrong. In fact, the big decisions are all about price and ecosystem. David Gewirtz has the details inside. The tablet market is moving at warp speed. Back in July, I wrote How to decide: should you buy the Nexus 7 or the...

There are some very compelling smartphone choices as we reach the end of 2012. It’s easy to pick five great phones, but a bit tougher to put them in order. Heading into the holiday season, there are once again some excellent smartphone choices and you really can’t go wrong with any of them. Here are my top five smartphones to end 2012. Number 1:...

I wasn’t expecting much, to be honest, but the iPad mini is a great device. Along with many other gadget fans, I watched as it was unveiled and compared to the iPad 2, instead of the latest generation iPad. I was surprised to hear that there would not be a retina display, so I figured I’d buy it just so I could play and write about it. Well, I got...

Summary: Apple’s  iOS and Google Android are the two clear leaders in the smartphone market here  in the U.S. so it was easy to pick the top two devices from these platforms.   The next eight were not as easy in such a competitive market. The beginning  of the year always starts with a bang with smartphones being revealed at CES,  Mobile World Congress and...

iPhone 4S officially announced: lands October 14th starting at $199 in sizes up to 64GB, coming to Sprint What’s this?  The second coming of the iPhone 4?  Sure enough, Tim Cook just pulled the covers off of the hotly-anticipated iPhone 4S here in Cupertino, making 2011 the first year in the company’s current stint in the smartphone business that it...

It’s a wonder how a laptop, or even the segment, can be graded at CES with all of the tablet and slate craziness at CES this year.  There are a few though, that stood out as the best of the best for the enthusiast who MUST HAVE the fastest and best with them at all times. Now keep in mind, just because it’s the fastest, doesn’t mean the laptop is the most...

HD, LED/LCD, Plasma and 3D TV’s displays at CES 2011 were ‘ful’ – that is plentifuland beautiful! Some manufacturers chose to shield TV’s from large angle views and ambient light, so you could only see the ‘best case scenario’, and some others tried to show how their TV’s had ‘less flaws’ than others, others left their TV’s wide open in...