Google has launched a limited beta of Google Voice (formerly GrandCentral) that offers up transcriptions of voicemail messages in email..and one phone number to rule them all.
Research firm Gartner found that smartphone sales were still growing in the fourth quarter of 2008 - by 3.7 percent - but that Nokia is struggling to maintain its lead.
Nokia's new 5730 XpressMusic, 5330 XpressMusic, and 5030 handsets expand Nokia's music-capable offerings at three different price points - just not in the United States.
Apple's tiny iPod shuffle music players eschew screens, but the new third-gen 4GB iPod shuffle has a VoiceOver feature can announce tracks, artists, and playlists - in 14 languages.
India is rolling out its own competitor to Google Earth named Bhuvan, promising high-resolution imagery and regular updates. But does it also open up new risks?
The inventor of the PDA strikes again: Klausner Technologies has reached more settlements for its visual voicemail patents, this time with Citrix, LGE, T-Mobile...and Google.
Two former Eminem producers have lost their suit against Universal Music, which claimed offering songs to iTunes counted as licensing, not distribution.
Clearwire has announced it plans to bring WiMax mobile broadband to eight major markets in 2009, with coverage for 80 markets - and 120 million people - in 2010.
Japanese inventor Kazuhiro Taniguchi has come up with the "Mimi Switch" for earbuds, which can measure movements inside the ear to read facial expressions and control devices.
Former Motorola CFO Paul Liska has sued the company, saying his dismissal was a "retaliatory discharge" - which how companies get rid of whisteblowers.
Jay Freeman, the developer of the Cydia application installer for jailbroken iPhones, has launched an App Store chalk full of tools you won't find via iTunes.
Cross-platform media server Boxee might not be able to provide direct access to Hulu content...but a new release does at least let users get to it via public RSS feeds.
According to IDC, PC shipments will fall by more than 8 percent in the first half of 2009...but there may be a slight turnaround by the end of the year.
Are The Beatles bigger than Jesus...or at least bigger than Call of Duty? Harmonix and MTV have announced The Beatles: Rock Band will ship on September 9.
JVC's new Everio X blurs the lines between camcorders and digital still cameras, simultaneously shooting 5.3 megapixel stills and high-definition video.
Amazon has released a Kindle app that enables iPhone and iPod touch owners to read Kindle book titles - and it's free (but you still have to buy the books).
Microsoft might still be circling Yahoo in hopes of picking up the company's search business dirt cheap, but it's also working an upgrade to Live Search dubbed Kumo.
Garmin's new nuvi 1200 and nuvi 1300 GPS series are the company's first with pedestrian navigation features available - on a city-by-city basis - through optional CityXplorer maps.
Panasonic's new Micro Fourth Thirds Lumix GH1 DSLR can capture 1080p AVCHD video - and features continuous autofocus and a silent motor deep zoom lens.
Sony is bolstering its networkable Bravia HDTV line with two new models, plus introducing new Blu-ray players with Wi-Fi and S-AIR wireless audio support.
A survey of finds that a whopping 84 percent of Germans between the ages of 19 and 29 would rather do without a car or their current partner than without the Internet.