Mobile/Wireless

Tue, March 29, 2011 - It may turn out to be true after all that the best things in life are free. Certainly when it comes to software and services designed to make your PC faster, more fun, and easier to use, there's no shortage of amazing freebies.

Thu, March 24, 2011 - Sometimes it feels like this is Angry Birds' world, and the rest of us are just living in it.

Tue, March 22, 2011 - After months of chatter, Amazon's Appstore for Android is live and ready for download. But are two app stores better than one? Let's do a quick comparison with the Android Market to see if the Amazon Appstore is worth an install.

Thu, March 17, 2011 - The past year has been a remarkable one for smartphones, with the meteoric rise of Google's Android OS, the restart of Microsoft's mobile strategy with its much-ballyhooed release of Windows Phone 7 and the continuing success of Apple's iPhone, buoyed by its new availability to Verizon subscribers. Never has there been so much choice in the smartphone

Thu, March 17, 2011 - When you release a new version of a mobile app each year—as opposed to updating an existing app that existing users can download automatically—you’ve got to give people a compelling reason to hustle over to the App Store and grab the upgrade. The folks behind the NCAA March Madness On Demand app—NCAA Digital, in this case—seem to understand this concept better than most. Because this is the third consecutive year that an app is streaming ever game of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament to Apple’s iOS devices. And the latest version of the app improves upon what’s come before.

Tue, March 15, 2011 - The laws of geekdom state that a newer, shinier, more desirable gadget is always around the corner. And you usually want it. But do you have the bucks?

Mon, January 17, 2011 - NTT DoCoMo's LTE (Long-Term Evolution) data network, launched in three of Japan's biggest cities on Dec. 24, promises speeds of up to ten times those of current 3G wireless. Over the last few days I've had a chance to test network performance in central Tokyo, and I found that while it does occasionally offer significantly faster downloads than 3G, the current LTE network generally under-performs and suffers from slow upload speeds.

Wed, January 12, 2011 - InfoWorld's 2011 Technology of the Year Awards recognize the best products at the forefront of today's top data center, desktop, mobile, and programming trends

Mon, December 13, 2010 - In its first public version, the forthcoming cloud-based alternative to Windows and Mac OS X is too limited by -- ironically -- the cloud

Sun, December 12, 2010 - The first phone to ship with Android 2.3 (also known as "Gingerbread") as the well as the follow-up to last January's Nexus One, the Nexus S (available unlocked for $530 or for $200 with a two-year plan from T-Mobile) is a joint effort between Samsung and Google with some impressive features. The hardware is gorgeous, and Android 2.3 delivers some useful enhancements; but with no support for HSPA+ or expandable memory, the Nexus S falls short of its potential.