If you're an iPhone user, you just looked at Apple's [AAPL] new 4GB iPod Shuffle and groaned. Announced this morning, the little stainless steel slab is beautifully minimalist, and about the size of a piece of Trident. But its control buttons are conspicuously absent--hidden in the earbud cord, in a...

This week Samsung released an "edgy" viral video to appeal to the youngsters and get people talking about its solid-state hard drives. At the risk of indulging the electronics company by doing just that, I've broken down the cost of the super PC built in the video to satisfy the nerdy desi...

Digitimes reported today that LCD manufacturer Wintek will produce displays for a new Apple [AAPL] netbook to be released this summer. We've been hearing about the non-existant Apple netbook for months. Why won't these rumors die? Perhaps the timing is finally right. In the past, the accuracy of App...

You were busy listening to President Obama talk about healthcare, or watching the economy defy even the most pessimistic doomsayers. But all the while, the Web was churning with news of backroom dealings, car tech, Harvard's secret shame, and the intractable war on drugs. Here's what you may have mi...

Reports of "sexting"--or teens sending each other homemade pornographic images using their phones--have exploded in recent weeks. Schools and parents are outraged and terrified, and lawyers are confused, because most child pornography statutes don't account for the kids themselves being th...

Every year, hundreds of thousands of computers find an afterlife at recycling programs nationwide. If you've ever sent in a clunker, there's a good chance it went to Dell [DELL], which runs one of the largest consumer take-back programs in the world. So what happens once your old PC buys the farm? C...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been making the talk show rounds with the new Kindle 2, and many hosts blabber on about their love for the feel and smell of real, paper books. They croon wistfully over the printed book's demise, and express wariness of the digital book era (see the Daily Show clip below.)...

Amazon's [AMZN] new Kindle 2, shipping this week, shames the original Kindle with a host of improvements: better enclosure, faster page-turns, a better Web experience and seven times the memory. But the Kindle 2 is put to shame by the someday-Kindle 3, which exists, for now, only in our collective i...

In case you spent your week "working," here's what you missed online: card-counting iPhones, Mac Mini spy-shots, Depression predictions, and two refreshing arguments against Malcolm Gladwell and intelligent design. Oh, and a sleep-walking dog, to keep things highbrow. Malcolm Gladwell Is Wrong Writi...

Yesterday was the third installment of the Pirate Bay Trial in Stockholm, Sweden, that has pitted a popular file-sharing site against media companies claiming copyright infringement. Fresh off yesterday's minor victory, when half the charges brought by the prosecution were dropped, counsel for the f...