It's definitely a nice phone and possibly one I'd think about if I was a Verizon guy. But the small battery (which I'm guessing is non-removable) and lack of SD card slot add up to a dealbreaker for me.

Oh, HTC - you're really not in a position to be screwing over your customers right now.

Similar tests have been done before and been discounted because there's no control test, and no way to design one for someone in a vegetative state. In other words, the "answers" could just be random involuntary reactions in the brain to any sort of external stimulus - they don't necessarily reflect understanding or…

He was way more than a "figurehead" - I don't know what kind of companies you've worked for, but it's kind of pointless to have a "figurehead" as the president of a division. And by all accounts, he was an abrasive figure who went his own way, so it's not like he had no input into Windows' direction.

None of my radiators have that, and I've never seen one that did. The "air relief valve" is on the side and *is* the outflow valve.

Ha, you actually think it was Sinofsky's decision?

It cannot be coincidence that Ballmer announced "modest" sales of Surface RT today. The two products are inextricably linked.

He fixed it with Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Panasonic TCP50ST50 50" plasma TV. I think it cost me around $1,200. Definitely worth it, though not perfect - I do have image retention issues (not burn-in, but IR that lasts for anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks), and it seems to require near-constant recalibration as the phosphors age. But the…

I've noticed that Japanese homes are often really poorly insulated. That includes my in-laws' detached house as well as all the apartments I've ever seen (though newly built apartments do seem better, but they still often have single pane windows and patio doors). I think it must come from tradition; in the rural…

You're not really wasting any energy, in fact you're saving energy. Any heat in your basement is heat that's not in the rest of your house - and granted, heat rises so some of that heat will radiate up into your house, but a lot of it will just get absorbed into your basement walls (and eventually the ground), it'll…

"They're really not made to be turned on and off repeatedly," says Brian Winters, co-owner of Winters Electric, Inc., in Colorado Springs, Colo. "They are designed to be turned on and left on."

Absolutely no mention of the missing optical drive? Maybe my fast reading style missed it, but I just searched for "optical" or "DVD" and didn't see it either.

My wife updated her iPhone 3GS (I know... she did buy an iPhone 5 but had to return it, so she's back to the 3GS) to the latest iOS using iTunes and initially she thought it had "erased all her apps". Those were her words. Turned out, it had put them on another home screen for some reason - on the other side of a…

I agree that the "Steve wouldn't have done this" argument is overused, but this is the first time I might agree with it because of the specific point about Steve never announcing a product with specs clearly worse in every way than its predecessor (the predecessor in this case being the iPad 3), and no new features or…

I invite Mossberg, Pogue or Gruber to re-review their iPad Mini now, a week after their initial reviews, and let us know if they're actually using it.

When I reloaded the page, my comment was just hanging out at the top by itself, where it made no sense. It was just a link to the wikipedia explanation of x86. It doesn't really matter that it wasn't in the original report - the upcoming Surface Pro tablets are x86 tablets, in that they are based on chips compatible…

You might want to try watching The Onion, as a lot of other people do. Guarantee it will make the cut.

Unfortunately for tweens (and Microsoft), it's the grownups that have all the money.

If a video I'm trying to watch takes more than 2 seconds to load, I assume something's broken. It just shouldn't take that long.