Google responded to the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti earlier this week by working with satellite imagery company GeoEye to quickly make images of the destruction available in Google Earth and Google Maps. The images were taken at approximately 10:27 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, and c...

Google appears to be trying to boost its customer support for Nexus One customers, posting replies to many more queries on its online forum.

Google has come under fire since the launch of the Nexus One after hundreds of messages were posted with complaints or questions about the phone. Many cus...

Worldwide PC shipments soared during the fourth quarter, driven by historically low PC prices and an increased demand for laptops and netbooks, analyst firm IDC said Wednesday.

Shipments totaled 85.8 million units during the fourth quarter of 2009, growing 15.2 percent compared to the fourth q...

Each year, the nation's largest geekfest, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), is full of hype, overhype, and beyond the valley of the hype. Remember the Internet Refrigerator?

And each year the hype (and overhype, and b.t.v.o.t. hype) inevitably leads to disappointment: Vendors dangle many al...

Barnes & Noble is giving $100 gift certificates to Nook e-reader buyers who placed orders for the devices to be delivered before the holidays and now won't receive them until after the Christmas. The company had hoped that most preorders from November would be delivered by December 24, but says ...

Intel today unveiled the newest member of the Intel Xeon family: the 5600 series. The Xeon family of processors is the traditional processor of choice for Apple in its Mac Pros and Xserve line of computers.

The Xeon 5600 family is based on Intel's new 32nm Nehalem (microarchitecture) technology ...

We expect Apple to release new Mac Pro models sometime between now and the Apple Developers Conference in the early summer. Of course, we're hoping for sooner rather than later, and if you remember from last week's blogs, one rumor says the Mac Pro announcement will occur tomorrow, March 16th.

Folx from Eltima Software is a download manager that works with your web browser. It allows you to organize downloads, and specify where each download should be stored on your Mac. Folx comes preconfigured with download locations for applications, movies, music, pictures, and other. You can easil...

51,000 iPad sales in the first two hours. That's the estimate from Valcent Financial Group, as reported by Fortune. It's likely that actual orders are higher since Valcent is only looking at online orders. Valcent is also basing its figures on the sales order number, which represents the number o...

Starting at 8:30 am EST, the Apple Store started accepting pre-orders for the iPad. The three Wi-Fi models will be available on April 3, while the Wi-Fi + 3G models will be available in late April.

Apple has placed a limit of two iPads per customer, but there's a sneaky ...

Apple is releasing the iPhone 3.0 update today which adds copy & paste functional...

This week, Cisco has announced its new marquee router, CRS-3. At 322 terabits per...

It may not be the fastest printer out there, but the new Kodak ESP 7250 has a few nice things to offer, such as built in wireless as well as Bluetooth printing and a dedicated photo tray. Kodak also offers decently priced ink cartridges so it won't hurt as much to replace them. And photos come ou...

Who wouldn't want a giant locket that opens to a photo of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter? But where would you find such a valuable piece of jewelry? Fear not--you can find downloadable plans for the locket (including photos of the Mad Hatter, the Red Queen, and even Alice herself) through Paperkra...

The rise in 3-D printing is not just about being able to create your own customized cufflinks or action figure. Researchers are discovering that the technology is helping to create better prosthetic limbs . An article in CNET News by Daniel Terdiman looks at a presentation by industrial designer ...

Well, probably not--at least in the short term. But the pencil printer is an awesome idea. Stick in a pencil to the printer's built-in sharpener and use the pencil's graphite as 'ink' to do your printing. Not only do you save tons on ink cartridges, but paper as well, since mistakes are easily er...

Photo scanners are becoming more popular and American consumers are scanning more photos than ever before, according to a new survey from IDC, a market intelligence firm based in Massachusetts. And the trend will continue upward. "IDC believes that consumers' interest in converting their photo pr...