2/24/2009

Battered economy taking toll on mobile phones

The softness in the market for new mobile phones was readily apparent at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona.

2/12/2009

Internet recycling network

A global recycling network allows members to pass on unused items and help keep them out of landfills. The website Freecycle enables its 6 million members worldwide to recycle through barter and give stuff away. Fred Katayama reports from New York.

New Google mobile feature knows where you are

Google Inc. hopes to prove it can track people on the go as effectively as it searches for information on the Internet. It could also raise privacy concerns, but Google is requiring each user to manually turn on the tracking software.

1/27/2009

Verizon launches home cell phone booster

Verizon Wireless has started selling a book-sized device that boosts cell phone signals within a home for $250, making it easier for people to drop a home phone line and rely solely on wireless.

Man Uses Twitter in Laundry

Here's innovation for you: a Silicon Valley engineer's fix after his washing machine's buzzer broke.

1/22/2009

Watch Phone Unveiled At CES

Julie Chen spoke with Natali Del Conte and Daniel Sieberg from the Consumer Electronics Show about an upcoming touch screen watch, phone and MP3 player.

'09 Consumer Electronics Show

CBS News science and technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg takes a hi tech tour of the International Consumer and Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where many of the latest gadgets make their debut.

1/07/2009

Apple announces iTunes price cut at Macworld

In Apple's final appearance at the Macworld trade show, top marketing executive, Philip Schiller, said that some iTunes song prices will be lowered. Schiller also unveiled a bigger Macbook Pro laptop and some software updates.

Powering Up Without Cables

Unveiled at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Powermat allows you to recharge gadgets without plugging them in. You simply place them on the charging pad and that's it!

"Fashionable" Bluetooth sunglasses

A new gadget launched at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas blends designer sunglasses, wireless MP3 headphones and Bluetooth headset functionality.