5 tech bah-humbugs for 2012

A number of companies will find to some degree or other that 2012 won't be all they wanted

• Dec 27, 2011

Free remote access to your PC from iPhone or iPad

If you forget a digital file at home, LogMeIn lets you grab it with your mobile device, and get on with your day

• Dec 27, 2011

Travel "truths" that are really just myths

Your iPad can make your plane crash. Cruise ship prices are all-inclusive. Expert debunks these, other travel myths

• Dec 24, 2011

Facebook to open new engineering center

Facebook will open an engineering center in New York City early next year, its first such office outside the West Coast.

• Dec 24, 2011

Personalization: a blow against innovation

Personalization not only threatens privacy but the creativity that feeds innovation

• Dec 22, 2011

Android crushes iPhone, makes Google $5 billion

The search giant says it activates 700,000 devices a day and reasonable estimates suggest it also makes a bundle in revenue

• Dec 22, 2011

Apple patents using apps during calls

Apple claims exclusive rights to another basic -- and elegant -- feature people expect in smartphones, whether they use it or not

• Dec 20, 2011

Hold off extended warranties until you read this

Here are tips from consumer and product experts on how to make extended warranties work for you

• Dec 19, 2011

Facebook is the biggest secret flop on the net

The social network giant is pathetically bad at making money from its users

• Dec 19, 2011

Zynga IPO brings in a billion, but will it pop?

At $10 a share, Zynga's IPO brought in a bundle of cash, but where will the stock go from here?

• Dec 16, 2011

Whither, RIM? Looks like nowhere but down

RIM saw even more year-over-year drop in business, which raises the question if fixing the company is still possible

• Dec 16, 2011

Zynga IPO skewered on high-tech cynicism

Zynga's caution about pricing its shares reflects growing investor skepticism about the tech market

• Dec 15, 2011

Will publishers kill Amazon's golden goose?

Big publishers are driving up the price of their e-books, and that could hurt Kindle and other e-reader sales

• Dec 15, 2011

Zynga's $1B IPO will be good for high tech

Zynga will raise a bundle through an IPO, but it's smartly avoiding some questionable tactics others have used

• Dec 15, 2011

Amazon Big Brother patent knows where you'll go

Amazon has patented a system that tracks people's locations, predicts where they'll go, and sends ads to meet them

• Dec 14, 2011

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