Nick Mokey is a magazine journalism graduate from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, located in Syracuse, New York. Prior to writing for Digital Trends, he was a columnist and later head opinion editor at S.U.'s independent student newspaper, The Daily Orange. Nick has also interned for and contributed to Popular Mechanics magazine. Besides toying with computers and gadgets, he enjoys running, motorcycling, camping, and finding absurd deals on Craigslist.
Simple ain’t easy: Why HP’s laptop catalog is still overflowing

It all looks so easy when Apple does it: Five different laptops, a sprinkling of options dusted on top, and customers lining up to pay top dollar. This “we'll make… →
Meet HP’s MacBook Air fighter, the Envy Spectre XT

While Asus, Acer, and a slew over other competitors were rolling out MacBook Air lookalikes under the Ultrabook moniker back in the fall, HP put its first foot into the… →
HP: Print isn’t dying… if you change the definition of print

Print is dying. For the last decade, the point has been posited by the press, reaffirmed by numbers, and seems to, today, be just generally accepted as truth by a… →
Hands on HP’s new Envy Ultrabooks: Thin and light for the everyman

The way Intel tells it, Ultrabooks have always been a budget proposition designed to reach as many buyers as possible. But you might not have noticed it from the first… →
The best of Mobile World Congress 2012

If you’ve seen the acronym MWC plastered all over this this site the past week without a clue… well, we forgive you. While the blazing spectacle of excess we call… →
Pioneer PotterNavi bike computer proves smartphones can’t always do it all

Pioneer may have bowed out of the TV business years ago to return to its bread and butter of car and home audio, but that hasn’t stopped the company from… →
The skeptic’s guide to Nokia’s 808 PureView: Five reasons 41 megapixels are not a gimmick

When Nokia smartphone guru Jo Harlow stepped on stage and pitched the 808 PureView at Monday’s Nokia press conference, I could have sworn I was sitting in the audience for… →
Under the sun with Sony’s WhiteMagic high-brightness LCD

With a name like “WhiteMagic” and relatively few details announced at launch, you could be forgiven for thinking of Sony’s newest display technology as just another marketing gimmick to throw… →
Ford brings Sync to Europe in new B-Max, the first car unveiled at MWC

Why launch a car at a mobile phone conference in Barcelona? Besides the obvious appeal of simply going to Barcelona, the broadening intersection between cars and technology actually makes Mobile… →