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Everything You Need To Know About The Verizon iPhone 4

The four-year-long Verizon iPhone rumor's reign of terror has ended. With an official announcement today—official!—we can get down to brass tacks and take a look at all the details, specs, facts and figures. Let's dance. Pricing and Availability Verizon's iPhone will be available online and in Verizon and Apple stores on Thursday, February 10th. Pre-orders [...]

CES: Buying a Tablet? Wait Until Spring (or Later)

The Consumer Electronics Show is in full swing here in Las Vegas and, as promised, there are tablets as far as the eye can see. Just about every major manufacturer has been showing off some sort of tablet or line of tablets here but the general trend seems to be that most of them aren't [...]

What We’re Looking Forward to in 2011: Gadgets and Tech

Leaving so soon, 2010? You just got here! No matter. The gadgets and tech landscape for 2011 looks relatively promising. Let's take a peek at what we're looking forward to next year as it pertains to next-generation baubles, trinkets and other assorted curiosities.

Operation Payback: Who Are The WikiLeaks "Hactivists"?

A hacking group simply identifying itself as "Anonymous" has taken credit for a recent string of high-profile cyber attacks against the websites of businesses, banks and politicians that have either spoken out against or stopped doing business with whistleblowing site, WikiLeaks. Since Monday of this week, targets have included Swiss financial institution PostFinance, Joe Lieberman, [...]

WikiLeaks Domain Name Killed (and Why It Won’t Kill WikiLeaks)

At around 10PM EST last night, WikiLeaks was no longer accessible at the wikileaks.org web address. That's the end of that, right? Wrong. The site is still accessible through several alternate domain names (wikileaks.ch, wikileaks.dd19.de, wikileeks.org.uk, to name a few), all of which point to its machine-readable IP address: 213.251.145.96. That's one of the problems [...]

Let’s Go Retro: Best Computer Games from the ’80s

If you're looking for a nostalgia fix, the 1980s made up the golden age of computer games. Just about every genre's represented in some form or another, with many of the early titles providing the foundations for entire franchises to follow in future decades. Here's a look at some classic games from the '80s. Feel [...]

Samsung Galaxy Tab Review: Best 7-inch Tablet, But It’s Pricey

Samsung's 7-inch Galaxy Tab Android tablet is not an iPad killer. Nothing needs to die, as far as gadgets are concerned, and the iPad and Galaxy Tab aren't really even in the same category. The Galaxy Tab is a very portable tablet, which is one of its selling points over the iPad. If you're dead [...]

Windows Phone 7 Tips and Tricks

Here's a quick look at some tricks you can do with your new Windows Phone 7 device. Aside from the tips contained in the above video, check these ones out as well for some additional functionality. Quickly delete multiple e-mails Tap the left-hand edge of any message in your inbox to expose checkboxes next to [...]

50 Windows Phone 7 Apps to Get You Started

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 handsets are available in the U.S. this week. And if history has taught us anything, a phone's only as good as the apps it can run. In that spirit, here are 50 good Windows Phone 7 apps (many of them free) for your consideration as you load up your new handset. [...]

TV is Broken

Oh, the humanity. In another reminder that TV service providers don't have your best interests in mind, Dish Network executive Bruce Eisen recently said streaming TV sites (like Hulu) that allow you to watch new episodes of shows the day after they air should instead delay new shows by 30 days. According to GigaOM: "'If [...]