The top four wireless carriers in the U.S. – AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile – speeding up availability of a text-to-911 service, allowing mobile users to send a text message to 911 A new initiative by the top four wireless carriers in the U.S. – AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile – plans to accelerate the availability of text-to-911, with major deployments expected in 2013 and a commitment... 

I admit, I’m a bit of a Radio Shack groupie. I’m always there, checking out what’s new. I had seen the Livio Radio Bluetooth Internet Radio Car Kit but didn’t pay much attention. After all, I already have a Garmin GPS that acts as a Bluetooth speakerphone. But the folks at Livio Radio lent me a review unit to try out. So I gave it a shot. Well, let me tell you, this is more than a Bluetooth... 

HTC’s LTE Portfolio Expands With Fourth LTE Smartphone; Latest Windows Phone from HTC to Run on AT&T’s 4G LTE Network in U.S. The HTC TITAN II is HTC’s first Windows Phone to run on a 4G LTE network. Available now to AT&T customers, the smartphone includes the largest display among Windows Phones, an advanced 16-megapixel digital camera and access to 4G LTE speeds. “HTC’s history... 

Samsung Galaxxy Nexus w/Android 4 “Ice Cream Sandwich” Last year (2011) was another banner year for smartphones. Apple’s rolled out three sizes of its flagship iPhone 4s, selling over 152,000 collectively. Google’s Android also enjoyed another banner year with several new models appearing every month in the United States and weekly world-wide. Sprint made a big stand, hosting the HTC... 

Belkin WeMo devices uses your Wi-Fi and allows you to control household appliances anywhere remotely via your mobile device Belkin has recently launched WeMo (www.belkin.com/wemo), a line of simple, modular home automation products that allows household electronics to be controlled from anywhere using a mobile app on a smartphone or tablet. Consisting of two initial products, the WeMo Home Control... 

Vlingo is about as close to Siri as you can get on Android, and lets you do anything from sending texts to searching for nearby venues, update your status, check in on Foursquare, or launch apps Siri for the iPhone 4S is a pretty nifty feature, and a pretty big deal, but it’s not the only product out there. There are several available for Android that do more or less what Siri does. The voice control... 

New, Ultra-Thin 4G LTE Smartphone By Motorola is Encased in Kevlar, Aluminum and Gorilla Glass Say hello to the jaw-dropping new Motorola RAZR. UNBELIEVABLY thin at 7.1 millimeters with sexy curves to boot, this beauty boasts a gorgeous sculpted glass face, diamond-cut aluminum accents and a hyper-vibrant 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Advanced display for incredibly vivid images. Motorola RAZR also sports... 

It’s that time of year again when we all have to evaluate what the best tech toys to buy for the geek who wants all the greatest, newest gadgets. For all the gadget enthusiasts on your holiday shopping list, here’s some gift ideas I’ve come up with that I know will make your techie excited. SmartPhones iPhone The ever-popular iPhone is now available on Sprint’s wireless service. If it’s iPhone... 

After using iOS 5 since it’s debut, I found a lot I like and some things that could be improved upon Steve Jobs introduced iOS 5 at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WDC) in June, 2011, and I’ve been running the beta version on my iPhone 4 and iPad 2 ever since. As an iPhone app developer, I’m under Non-Disclosure, so in my iPhone Life article in the September- October 2011 issue, I had to... 

To much fanfare, Apple released their newest iPhone, and it wasn’t the iPhone 5. The new smartphone is an upgraded version of their 15-month old iPhone 4, dubbed the iPhone 4S. The reviews are mixed, ranging from overjoyed fans to skeptical naysayers with a dash of confused fence-sitters who were waiting for the next big thing from Apple. While it wasn’t everything that many were expecting, it...