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• AT&T greens up mobile phone chargers

  By John Dodge | Mar 18, 2010 | 0 comments

  AT&T's new ZERO mobile phone charger is leaner and greener. It's also a precursor to the Universal Charging Solution that all phone makers will be out with in 2012.

• Coolest phone charger ever

  By Dana Blankenhorn | Mar 18, 2010 | 0 comments

  When your phone is fully charged a little light on the top of the charger goes off, and the charger throttles back its power drain from your wall. It can also connect with multiple phones via a USB plug.

• Six ways the iPad could fail

  By Dana Blankenhorn | Mar 17, 2010 | 6 comments

  Could the iPad actually fail? Or will it be greeted as a data liberator, its march through the market a cakewalk? Don't knock that statue of Bill Gates off his pedestal just yet. Here are six possible scenarios for Apple iPad fail.

• Why are laptop touchpads so bad?

  By John Dodge | Mar 17, 2010 | 28 comments

  Do erratic laptop touchpads drive you as crazy and they do me? Why can't PC makers design reliable laptop touchpads?

• There is a simple answer to the broadband shortage

  By Dana Blankenhorn | Mar 16, 2010 | 0 comments

  Unfortunately the Obama Administration seems unwilling to directly challenge the monopolists who took away our early Internet lead in the name of profit.

• Consumer Reports, Toyotas and smart throttles

  By John Dodge | Mar 16, 2010 | 3 comments

  Did Consumer Reports tiptoe around the Toyota unintended acceleration issue in its annual 2010 Top Cars issue? It's a fair question given how unabashedly it has recommended Toyotas over the years.

• Computing is moving into the clouds with U.S. or without U.S.

  By Dana Blankenhorn | Mar 15, 2010 | 3 comments

  Sure, clouds can be attacked, but clouds have professionals protecting them. It's an army of bad guys against an army of good guys. I'm just one guy.

• National Broadband Plan: Rural Electrification all over again

  By John Dodge | Mar 15, 2010 | 5 comments

  The National Broadband Plan will be unveiled tomorrow as the U.S. plays catch up to countries that have evolved plans already. Call it Rural Electrification II.

• IEEE 802 Ethernet committee turns 30, passions still run high

  By John Dodge | Mar 12, 2010 | 2 comments

  The key IEEE 802 Ethernet standard turns 30 today and is showing no signs of losing influence when it comes to key network standards. Even better, the pioneers that hammered out the Ethernet standard are still hammering each other. Now, that's passion for technology.

• The impossible computer is theoretically possible

  By Dana Blankenhorn | Mar 12, 2010 | 13 comments

  A computer that works faster than the speed of light has been proposed by Viennese physicists Karl Svozil and Volkmar Putz.

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