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Walt Mossberg tries out two new smart phones ahead of the iPhone’s highly anticipated release. One is the latest attempt by BlackBerry’s maker to appeal to consumers. The other is a high-resolution camera phone by Nokia. (Video)
Many parents don’t realize that the latest versions of the two main computer-operating systems have parental controls built in. Walt tests some of these tools that help parents get a handle on their children’s computing activities. (Video)
Walt talks about a lesser-known feature of iTunes that allows users to share their music, even with a PC. (Video)
Sarmad Ali tests two Web sites that help people to write accounts of their life stories or family histories. But the results can be disappointing, especially for those who opt for the least expensive services.
New services using voice-recognition technology aim to eliminate checking voice messages by transcribing them into text. To see how efficient they are at transcription, Sarmad Ali tested two such applications.
Walt Mossberg tests Samsung’s Q1 Ultra, and says the tiny PC addresses the biggest weaknesses of an earlier model and throws in other improvements such as a built-in keyboard. (Video)
Walt Mossberg tests out the new smart phone from Helio. He finds the Ocean has an elegant solution to the common design problem of how to optimize smart phones both for making voice calls and for email and Web surfing.
Walt provides some tips for making laptop purchases. First, you may want to wait to get that new laptop until later this year or early in 2008. There are a number of interesting new hardware features coming.(Video)
Kodak is offering a new line of home inkjet printers that use cheaper ink. Walt tries one out to see if its quality is good enough to satisfy people attracted by the lower ink costs. Video
What has a colorful screen, fits in a pocket, takes pictures and can go with you almost anywhere?
Nowadays, there are two possible answers: a small digital camera and a cellphone. But sophisticated cellphones with better built-in cameras — including some with up to three megapixels — are making it increasingly practical for consumers to just [...]
All over the world, people are increasingly using the Web to make phone calls, if not free, then for a few pennies a minute. One of the most common ways of doing so is with Skype, the free software whose parent company was bought last year by eBay.
In fact, Skype has become so popular that [...]
nternational calling has been an expensive and cumbersome process over the years, with consumers always hunting for new ways to find inexpensive, user-friendly plans. Today, consumers have more low-cost choices.
In addition to prepaid calling cards, options range from free Internet calling via computers, inexpensive Internet calling via services such as Vonage and heavily discounted wireless [...]
Cameras were introduced on cellphones in 2000, but for years the photo quality was so poor, the devices were little more than toys.
That’s changing as handset manufacturers add cameras that take pictures equal in quality to those taken by average digital cameras. In the U.S., some camera phones are built with two-megapixel image sensors, similar [...]
Cellphones are becoming devices not only for reaching people you know but for reaching people you don’t know — yet.
Increasingly powerful and Web-enabled, the latest phones can do email, video, music, photo sharing and Web surfing. It was inevitable that popular online services such as “social networking” sites would find a home on cellphones as [...]
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All over the world, consumers are turning to the Internet for phone service. Companies like Skype Technologies and Vonage Holdings have been marketing inexpensive, even free, calls. Now, Internet giants like Google and Yahoo, and software manufacturer Microsoft are upgrading their services and features to win the same customers.
Instant-messaging services [...]
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