Portable Technology Category - Page 8

It’s a situation no one ever really wants to find themselves in: you’re reading a book on your Kindle and right as you get to the part where you find out who actually killed Mr. Boddy or what’s actually running the Matrix or any of a hundred other cliffhanger points, [...]

While it is certainly common practice in this day and age to spend your Black Friday shopping for the best new video game or video game console for little Jimmy and Jenny, Toys R’ Us wants you to remember that the kids love being able to carry their music play [...]

In the go-go world of website ratings and hit statistics most developers and site managers would love to be able to monitor their traffic without having to site down in front of their computer all the time. The new ClickyTouch app for the iPhone will free them to monitor their [...]

With the launch of the Windows Phone 7 yesterday the first question was: “Where can I get it?” Most likely the question immediately following that was: “What apps does it have?” Thanks to the popularity of the iPod Touch, the iPhone and the iPad the number of quality of apps [...]

Let’s face it, you’ve got a lot of mobile gear, don’t you? Between your MP3 player and your e-book reader and your cell phone and a host of other products (some of which even duplicate the function of others), you’ve got plenty of things that need recharging at the end [...]

News about prototypes is always fun because it contains the most cutting edge stuff on the planet. Sure, we can’t send you out to buy one just yet–it’s still under development, after all, but someday, you just might. And if Aska Electron has its way, you’ll be recharging your hardware [...]

Speaking here as a very happy TomTom user for about the last year or so, I can speak to TomTom devices as being of solid quality and terrific ease of use. And as such, I’m definitely happy to be announcing that there are two new TomTom devices that have made [...]

Sierra Wireless is working on a type of embedded modules that will allow most car manufacturers to equip their autos with High Speed Packet Access (HSPA). The company is looking to offer modules that have speeds approaching 14.4 MBPS for downloads and 5.76 MBPS for uploads. These packets would be [...]

A newly discovered security flaw in Apple iPhone’s iOS 4.1 allows complete strangers to get past the lock screen on your iPhone without having to crack your password first. A couple of quick button presses and anyone who wants can get access to the Phone app on the iPhone.

On Monday, Sony officially announced that the product that revolutionized the music industry will officially be retired. The Sony Walkman tape player will no longer be produced, ending a 30 year run that saw portable music first introduced to the masses, paving the way for devices such as the iPod [...]