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 ...

According to AppleInsider, Apple will release a new 27-inch Cinema Display based on the same panel used in the 27-inch iMacs. The 27-inch LCD panel uses LEDs for backlight, and has a 16:9 aspect ratio with 2560x1440 pixels.

The panel as used on the 27-inch iMacs has rece...

Apple today mourned the loss of Jerome B. York, who suffered a brain hemorrhage Tuesday night. Jerome was a longstanding member of Apple's board of directors. After joining the board in 1997, Jerome was seen as one of the key reasons for Apple's financial turnaround.

"Jerry joined Apple's Board...

Apple today updated the iWork.com beta site with new capabilities designed to make sharing iWork files easier for mobile devices, specifically the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. The new user interface is optimized for touch-based scrolling, and brings higher resolution images of documents to iPad ...

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.

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...

Lexmark has released a new addition to its line of small-business all-in-one printers, Pinnacle (aka the Pro901). The printer started out on a high note; it debuted at the Fifth Annual Small Business Summit and picked up the 2010 Hot Tech Demo Award. Like other members of Lexmark's Professional f...

In case you're looking for updated printer drivers for your Samsung or Brother printer--and you're a Mac user--there's good news from Apple, reports Philip Michaels of Macworld.com. Apple has released Samsung printer drivers for Mac OS X v10.6 and Brother printer drivers for Mac OS X v10.6. Micha...

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 ...