New article: Battle of the Bluetooth headsets

Originally the realm of the uber-geek, a good wireless headset is becoming a requirement as more states enact hands-free laws for driving. But what model? Are they all the same, or do some bring more to the table than others? In this product shootout, Editor-at-Large James Booth examines five premium headsets in the Battle of the Bluetooth headsets.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

Posted on: March 28, 2010 9:00 am

Eye-Tracking Tablets and the Promise of Text 2.0

Text 2.0 is proposed as a way to combine eye-tracking technology and processor-packed tablets to alter the way we read. This article includes a 3.5-minute video showing how the systems would work.

Posted on: March 26, 2010 9:00 am

Apple iPad To Come With 30k Free E-books

30,000 free e-books from Project Gutenberg will be available to iPad owners. You will need to download the iBooks app to download books from the iBookstore library.

Posted on: March 26, 2010 9:00 am

3-D Tabletop Display Gets Rid of the Glasses

It won’t give you a big-screen experience but, the pCubee doesn’t require special glasses. It uses 5 LCD screens to create virtual stereoscopic images you can manipulate.

Posted on: March 26, 2010 9:00 am

Get Your Smish On – And Get All Together Now

Smish is a new platform, or window, to help you organize, and find, all your digital applications. The beta version is now available.

Posted on: March 26, 2010 9:00 am

GoDaddy Stops Selling Chinese Domains Over Censorship Concerns

After the Chinese government demanded that new and existing domain-name holders provide photo IDs to Chinese authorities GoDaddy decided to stop selling .cn domain names.

Posted on: March 25, 2010 9:00 am

$150 Kobo eReader: The Real Kindle Killer?

The Kindle is great for reading books, but a little pricey. The new Kobo e-reader looks a lot like the Kindle, has less storage than the Kindle, but costs a lot less.

Posted on: March 25, 2010 9:00 am

Millions continue to click on spam

According to a recent survey, it would seem that many people use “it-won’t-happen-to-me” to protect them from botnets and other malware. Many people apparently open spam intentionally, feeling it isn’t their responsibility to protect their systems.

Posted on: March 25, 2010 9:00 am

Apple iPhone, Microsoft IE 8 get hacked in Pwn2Own contest

A number of popular software and hardware systems failed the test. Survivors include Google Chrome 4 and a few mobile devices. A quick failure was posted to IE8 on Win7.

Posted on: March 25, 2010 9:00 am

A Global Anti-Censorship Policy for Google

While much has been made of Chinese censorship policies, they’re hardly the only country to censor searches on the internet. A number of countries limit their citizens access to the internet to some degree.

Posted on: March 24, 2010 9:00 am