Nick Mokey | Managing Editor, Digital Trends

HTC’s Touch Pro2: Exactly What the Original Should Have Been

A number of major fixes to the next-gen Touch Pro make it one of the most promising models in HTC's upcoming line.

Mobile Best-ofs

April 2, 2009

Hands On With HTC’s Snap

We fiddle with the company's new budget-priced Windows Mobile handset.

Mobile Reviews

April 2, 2009

TomTom’s Unique New GPS Mounts Flex, Rotate and Fold Flat

The company's creative new take on the old task of holding a GPS unit in a window solves many of the problems of previous attempts.

Mobile News

April 2, 2009

RIM Heaps One More Item on the BlackBerry Accessory Pile

A new in-car speakerphone will allow you to gab it behind the wheel, and play tunes from your BlackBerry over your car stereo.

Mobile News

April 1, 2009

Garmin-Asus Break the Slow Barrier on G60 Smartphone

We could take or leave the location-based services - just give us a capable smartphone as responsive as this one.

Mobile News

April 1, 2009

Fondling Glass with LG’s See-Through GD900

The touch-screen glass keypad on LG's new slider looks and feels amazing in person, and could potentially be both beautiful and useful.

Mobile News

April 1, 2009

LG Strikes Cheap QWERTY Gold with Solid Messaging Phones

The company's two contributions to AT&T's latest six-pack of messaging phones seem to nail appealing aesthetics and feel at a reasonable price.

Mobile News

April 1, 2009

Internet Explorer 8: One Step Forward, Three Steps Back

Despite a handful of modest improvements, Microsoft still couldn't get us to switch back.

Computing

March 20, 2009

Afraid of Commitment? AT&T to Offer Contract-Free iPhone

Leaked AT&T documents suggest the company will begin offering the iPhone without a contract on March 26.

Mobile News

March 19, 2009

Recession-Torn U.S. Sees a Computer Science Renaissance

The number of students seeking CS degrees saw an enormous leap in 2008.

Smart Home Smart Home News

March 18, 2009

Holy Realistic Smoke! Nvidia Brings PhysX Engine to PlayStation 3

A new licensing agreement will allow PS3 developers to access Nvidia's tools, for effects like realistic smoke, debris, and explosions.

Smart Home Smart Home News

March 18, 2009

Iomega Opens ix2 NAS to Torrents, Remote Access

A free firmware upgrade brings the latest StorCenter ix2 up to speed with a slew of major new features.

Computing News

March 17, 2009

MS500 Wireless Speaker Blasts Your Tunes in the Great Outdoors

The 2009 equivalent of a boombox clips on to anything you want and uses Bluetooth to stream tunes off a cell phone or PMP.

Audio / Video

March 17, 2009

HTC Primed for Three New Android Phones in 2009

CEO Peter Chou says the company has at least three Android handsets set to debut this year.

Mobile News

March 17, 2009

iPhone 3.0 Will Bring Copy and Paste?

Rumor has it that the latest update to the iPhone will offer copy and paste, as well as other features that could bring it up to speed with Palm's Pre.

Mobile News

March 16, 2009

T-Mobile to Have Frosted Android Cupcake Ready for April?

The firmware upgrade known as Cupcake will reportedly hit this spring, bringing a virtual keyboard, video recording, A2DP Bluetooth and more.

Smart Home Smart Home News

March 13, 2009

Mamma Mia! Samsung Lucido Offers Ultra-Slim Metal Body, OLED Display

The company's new Brit-only, Italian-named candybar adds to the slim form factor of previous handsets with design flair and an upgraded screen.

Mobile News

March 13, 2009

Oklahoma and Utah Lead in Growing Landline Independence

New data from the CDC identifies more than a quarter of home in some states as "wireless-only."

Mobile News

March 12, 2009

Klipsch, Scosche Ready Specialized iPod Shuffle Headphones

One day after Apple's announcement, vendors are already leaping to fill the glut of compatible aftermarket headphones.

Audio / Video News

March 12, 2009

Google Keeps Tabs to Push Ads with Behavioral Advertising

By tracking where you've been, Google hopes to offer ads more targeted to your interests.

Smart Home Smart Home News

March 11, 2009

No Such Thing as a Free Text: Google Kills Free SMS iPhone App

Google's hardly publicized method for sending free text messages has been revoked after traffic from a popular iPhone app became too much.

Smart Home Smart Home News

March 11, 2009

Hitachi Faces $31M in Fines for LCD Price Fixing

After pleading guilty to fixing prices on LCD panels sold to Dell, the Japanese corporation will need to pay the piper.

Smart Home Smart Home News

March 11, 2009

Social Networking, Blogging Overtake E-mail as Chief Time Wasters

The raging popularity of both trends has made them collectively the fourth most popular way to spend time on a computer, above even e-mail.

Smart Home Smart Home News

March 10, 2009

Palm Throws Cold Water on Investor’s Provocative Zeal

As it turns out, it may have been a little much to insist that the Pre would win over every single iPhone early adopter.

Mobile News

March 10, 2009

Microsoft Blows Hot Air over Cooling Laptops

The company's Notebook Cooling Base keeps notebooks cooler during extended use with an elevated base and internal fan.

Computing News

March 10, 2009

Google Docs Bug Leaked Users’ Private Documents

A case of document-sharing gone wrong caused some Google documents to be viewable by eyes they weren't intended for.

Smart Home Smart Home News

March 9, 2009

Seagate Doubles Hard Drive Speed Limits with New 6 Gb/s SATA

As ultra-fast SSDs push the boundaries of the old SATA standard, Seagate and AMD prepare to take one giant step forward.

Computing News

March 9, 2009

Palm Grasps for Cash by Remarketing 18.5M Shares

By reselling 18.5 million common shares of its stock, Palm hopes to generate cash for the upcoming launch of the Pre.

Mobile News

March 9, 2009

Google AdSense Advertisements Blow Up

The behemoth advertising network now offers ads that expand to offer more visual footprint.

Smart Home Smart Home News

March 6, 2009

Mahalo: Not Sorry We Accidentally Hired a Felon

CEO Jason Calcanis has stood by an employee who faces four years in prison, on the belief that he has moved beyond his criminal past.

Smart Home Smart Home News

March 6, 2009

Facebook Adds Twitter-Style Public Profiles for Celebs

New changes to the site will give celebrities an easy outlet for reaching fans, and users more control over the updates they see.

Smart Home Smart Home News

March 5, 2009

BlackBerry Flashes Dollar Signs for Developers with App World

RIM's answer to Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market will offer developers a bigger cut of profits, and a minimum $2.99 price on apps.

Smart Home Smart Home News

March 5, 2009

Obama Tags Vivek Kundra as First White House Tech Guru

The newly appointed Chief Information Officer will apply tech to help reduce government inefficiency.

Smart Home Smart Home News

March 5, 2009

ZillionTV Teams with ISPs to Offer $50 Set-Top Streamer

The latest attempt to crack the burgeoning set-top market will use a complex partnership between content providers and ISPs, as well as targeted ads, to keep costs down.

Audio / Video News

March 4, 2009