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Google's latest salvo in its dispute with China came Tuesday, with reports that it's holding off unveiling two new Android phones in that country. However, this move may hurt Google more than it does China, which has a plethora of Android phones from different manufacturers. The hacker attacks on Go...

Last week, I spoke about how CES was back, and I gave some of the highlights. However, there always are discussions and trends going on behind the scenes, almost-invisible products, and impressions that take a while to form that can be even more interesting. There was one keynote that came close to ...

WEEK IN REVIEW

Google to China: Tear Down This Wall

For lots of U.S. Internet companies, doing business in China is virtually a no-brainer -- the market opens up well over a billion new potential customers. The only downside is the Chinese government's pet peeve regarding public dissent. It sponsors what has to be the biggest censorship operation on ...

OPINION

CES: The Magic Is Back

I was at CES last week, and the magic was clearly back in this show. In the past couple of years, CES has been dominated by one device -- making it more like a one-product waste of time. Two years ago, everyone was talking about the iPhone, making many of us wonder if we were at the wrong event. Las...

Twitter, Pandora Internet radio and other popular smartphone apps are hitting the road, thanks to Ford Motor Company's Thursday announcement of forthcoming dashboard technologies that will soon be available in a wider, more affordable range of its cars. Ford CEO Alan Mulally, along with other compan...

One year after first showing the world its Pre smartphone, Palm on Thursday announced a new generation of the device at the Consumer Electronics Show. It also unveiled an upgrade to its Pixi, a smaller smartphone that relies on the same webOS software as the Pre. These, the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, w...

The cavernous halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center during any Consumer Electronics Show, and the endless rows of exhibitor's booths hawking edgy technology products, can remind you of the final shot of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" -- which is itself, of course, an homage to the last sequence from "...

Everything's going digital. Why not handwriting? A new generation of digital pens and smartpens is bridging the divide between handwriting on paper and writing on the computer. With digital pens, you have the best of both worlds: You can sit in a meeting and take notes by hand, and then you can uplo...

AT&T and T-Mobile both announced on Tuesday that they have upgraded their 3G networks with technology enabling faster speeds. Specifically, the carriers have both deployed HSPA 7.2 technology at their cell sites across the United States. That technology will improve consistency in accessing da...

EXPERT ADVICE

Throw Less Spectrum at It

"Throw more money at it." That's an old suggestion for trying to solve problems big and small, but it's a solution that rarely works, because it doesn't address the root cause of the problem in question. Despite knowing that it's bad advice, the FCC has recently come up with a corollary to it: Throw...

Unveiling its much-anticipated Nexus One smartphone on Tuesday, Google put it in a new class of devices it dubs "superphones." "Nexus One is where the Web meets the phone," declared Mario Queiroz, vice president of product management. "It's an exemplar of what's possible on mobile phones through And...

STARTUP TO WATCH

nPower Makes Battery Charging a Walk in the Park

Tremont Electric may very well be traveling along the same path once crossed by the Little Engine That Could. The two-year-old startup is headed where several other power generation companies want to go but have yet to get off the research and development tracks. If the inventor and developer of th...

The e-reader market is set to take a big leap forward with the debut of the Skiff Reader at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Skiff, a Hearst-backed consortium, has partnered with Sprint to deliver content to the devices via its wireless network. The Skiff Read...

Lenovo unveiled a slew of PCs for the consumer market on Tuesday. These include its Skylight smartbook, a refreshed S10 netbook lineup, and a refreshed all-in-one desktop line. Multimedia, multitouch and access speed featured prominently in the lineup. Lenovo's beefing up of its consumer product lin...

Even as the rumors continue to fly about a tablet computer forthcoming from Apple, Freescale Semiconductor on Monday unveiled its own reference design for a smartbook that will be priced at less than $200. Whereas Apple's rumored product -- currently expected to be called the "iSlate" -- is said t...

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