Mobile

iPhone 5 Rumored to Have 4-Inch Screen

Reports coming out of Taiwan are that Apple has shown interest in upgrading their next iPhone model to a 4-inch display.

New Qualcomm Cell Phone CPUs More Powerful Than Some Notebooks

Qualcomm has announced a new series of their heralded �Snapdragon� mobile CPUs that more than doubles those currently seen in cellphones and tablets.

Please Don’t Take My Beta Chrome Away (1)

Adam Rothstein is a blogger, tech thinker, unemployed philosopher�and now, a beta tester of one of the coveted Google Chrome notebook computers. In the first of four posts about the beta experience, Adam finds that the unnanounced arrival of the device makes him feel like a combination of The Matrix's Neo and a Milo from The Phantom Tollbooth.

Embedding Ubiquitously: A Lightbulb That’s Also a Computer

An Android-powered projector-in-a-lightbulb inspires images of a world in which every gadget wants a heart�or at least a brain.

This Intel Ad is Like a Day in the Life

A breakneck desktop adventure offers an uncanny sense of what daily life is like for a tech blogger. Video after the jump.

Keeping Track of a Cell Phone, It’s Pipsqueaks All the Way Down

A handy bluetooth gadget for keeping track of your cell phone and alerting you to calls reminds us that there's no end to reminders.

For the Savvy, Hacking GSM Phones is Cheap and Easy

Obsolescing 2G networks furnish security loopholes in mobile networks, which malicious hackers may find easy to exploit.

No Empty Gestures: Touchless Interface to Demo at CES

The Norwegian firm Elliptic Labs’ booth at CES next week will feature several implementations of a touchless, gesture-based interface for tablets and mobile devices, according to the company. Unlike the Kinect, Elliptic’s interface, called Ultrasonic Touchless Input, graphs hand movements using echolocation. Bathing the user in a silent ultrasonic torrent, it measures the return time of rebounding sonic impulses to ...