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Article | 18/04/2008 Which religion has the best mobile phone?

Religious devotees around the world enjoy expressing their faith with customized religious mobile phones, which may play religious ringtones, carry sc...

Article | 31/03/2008 Top 10 tech toys to blow your tax refund on

For some of us, it's that magical time of year. Better than the summer holidays, better than Father's or Mother's Day -- even better than your own bir...

Article | 31/03/2008 Your mobilel phone wants to be a Wi-Fi hot spot

For years, "Wi-Fi" has been synonymous with "wireless" for the majority of laptop users looking to connect on the go.

Article | 25/03/2008 Sweet new service backs up while it syncs

A company called Sharpcast last week rolled out a new service that syncs your data across PCs, Macs and phones. That sounds simple enough, but the ser...

Article | 17/03/2008 Why iPhone will change the (PC) world, part II

More than a year ago, I wrote a column called "Why the iPhone will change the (PC) world." In that piece I described how the user interface of future ...

Article | 13/03/2008 The new two-laptop minimum

Ten years ago, every frequent-flying, executive-platinum mobile professional required a desktop PC back at the office and a laptop for the road. "Ultr...

Article | 10/03/2008 Making the phone-PC connection

It seems these days that every Tom, Dick and Harry -- or, more accurately, every Dell, Acer and Apple -- wants to get into the mobile phone/handset bu...

Article | 18/02/2008 Wi-Fi wants to be free

Public Wi-Fi hot spots have been popular for about eight years. During that time, companies providing the service have been groping about, trying to f...

Article | 11/02/2008 Who wants a custom mobile phone?

Two different companies this week announced two different visions for customizable mobile phones. Are we entering a new era, where mobile phones are u...

Article | 21/01/2008 Hyperconnectivity here we come

Apple CEO Steve Jobs told an interviewer at Macworld this week that Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader will fail. His shocking reason?: "People don't r...

Article | 10/12/2007 Amazon Kindle does e-mail and more

In all the marketing blather about Amazon.com Inc.'s awesome new Kindle e-book reader, you won't hear "e-mail," "RSS feeds" or "online calendars" ment...

Article | 3/12/2007 Do video games make kids violent, stupid and sick?

Video games have occasionally served as a convenient scapegoat for whatever ails youth. But just this week, the normal trickle of blame has become a t...

Article | 30/11/2007 iPhone season? Or open season on the iPhone?

Well, it's the moment of truth for this year's holiday shopping season: iPhone, yes or no? Tracy Mayor put the Question of the Year to Computerworld E...

Article | 16/11/2007 What to do about teen 'junk sleep' syndrome

What if I told you about a dangerous virus spreading through high schools and middle schools, a virus that now infects between a quarter and a third o...

Article | 12/11/2007 Wishing you and yours a haptic holiday

When playing Halo 3 on your Xbox 360, or other games on other consoles, your handheld game controller shakes and rumbles to coincide with on-screen ex...