WANT TO HEAR a shocker? My family ran up nearly $2700 in phone bills over the last 12 months. And that doesn’t include new cell phones, or our landlinebased DSL Internet access.

Why so much? We have two adults and two adolescents. That’s four cell phones and lots of text messages. We also have two landlines—one [...]

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Small, cheap, and surprisingly powerful, netbooks have made portability affordable. But with so many models flooding the market, choosing a mini-notebook that fits your needs isn’t as easy as it should be. Here’s a look at the upcoming crop, and the advice you need to buy wisely.
The term netbook, coined by Intel, conveys little useful [...]

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WHICH LCD MONITOR is right for you? It depends on the programs you use, your desk space, how much room you need on screen, and your bud get. Here are the most important features to evaluate when you go shopping.
Key Specifications
Native resolution: An LCD has a fixed resolution at which it looks best. The majority [...]

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For months now we’ve heard rumors suggesting that Apple is secretly preparing a new entry-level version of the iPhone, christened by the press and industry pundits as the iPhone Nano. There are good reasons for Apple to launch such a device, not the least of which is that consumers have less money to spend due [...]

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THE IPHONE 3G and the T-Mobile G1 may have created a stir, but Research In Motion’s BlackBerry units dominate the Top 10 Smart Phones chart. The two newest BlackBerrys (the Bold and the Storm) land on the chart, but two older units (the Pearl 8120 and the Curve 8320) remain near the top of our [...]

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DON’T CALL the VAIO P a netbook. After all, it starts at $900 with a 60GB hard drive and gets as high as $1499 with a 128GB solid-state drive (our review unit had a 64GB SSD; its configuration sells for $1199). In addition, this machine runs Windows Vista Home Basic instead of Windows XP or [...]

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FOR ANYONE WHO uses a Mac for work, an update to the iWork suite is welcome. Does iWork have what it takes to do serious business?
iWork ’09 consists of the Pages word processor, the Numbers spreadsheet application, the iWeb site builder, and the Key note presentation software. New in ’09 is iWork.com, which lets you [...]

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ALL-PURPOSE LAPTOPS come in a hodgepodge of sizes and shapes, a testament to just how much, and how quickly, notebooks are evolving right now. For this roundup we looked at small and spunky systems that are a smidgen too heavy to be considered ultraportables, as well as at laptops that have expansive, 16-inch screens but [...]

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MICHAEL VANA WAS skeptical when he saw the pop-up from “Antivirus 2009” on his screen. The former Northwest Airlines avionics technician, who lives in Schaumburg, Illinois, guessed that the dire warning of a system infection was fake, but when he clicked the X to close the window, it expanded to fill his screen. To get [...]

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