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.
1/04/2009
How to lower your cell phone bill
If you are looking to cut costs, you might want to start with your cell phone bill.
A touch-screen phone that taps into the Internet
AT&T's HomeManager is hardly the first touch-screen phone that taps into the Internet to monitor e-mail and dig up the latest news. But it does all that while connected to a home phone service, sprucing up what your landline can do.
12/01/2008
How To Get Out Of Your Cell Phone Contract For Free
Cell phone contracts might seem iron-clad, but loopholes may let you get out of your plan without paying a dime.
Cell Phone Keeps Tabs on Blood Sugar
Cell phones can do amazing things these days, and now one phone is helping to treat people with diabetes.
11/03/2008
The Online Getting To Know You
Daniel Sieberg explains how millions of people are socializing via internet and mobile sites without meeting each other, sometimes with life-altering consequences.
10/28/2008
Dialing And Driving Don't Mix
A new program, "Drive-Assist," has been created to disable a cell phone if it detects driving motion, preventing people from chatting on the phone while driving. Daniel Sieberg has more.
How The New Google Phone Compares To The iPhone
The Google phone goes on sale nationwide tomorrow. But tonight, one store in San Francisco is selling them early, CNet's Kara Tsuboi reports
Soaked Smart Phones Not Necessarily a Lost Cause
Just because you've dropped your smart phone in a puddle, doesn't mean your electronic device is doomed to a waterlogged death.
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