Salesforce CEO at CES: Be disruptive or you’ll end up in a ‘landfill’

Bathed in the glow of neon light, Marc Benioff, a keynote speaker at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, delivered some golden rules for technology entrepreneurs.

YouTube adds ‘TV remote’ feature to tons of smart TVs & set-top boxes

YouTube is rolling out a new feature that will allow users to transform their mobile devices into a YouTube remote, the site announced today.

Making sense of the connected TV craze

Connected TV was front and center at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month: Panasonic, LG, and Sharp all shone spotlights on Internet-enabled televisions, along with just about every other TV manufacturer. MySpace even decided to resurrect itself at CES …

Motorola Droid Razr Maxx with incredibly good battery life on sale Jan. 26

Motorola’s Droid Razr Maxx, a powerful 4G Android phone with a long battery life, will be available on Verizon Wireless starting Jan. 26, Verizon announced today.

As our smartphones get smarter and we rely on them for everything from email …

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare kicks off high-quality game releases on Xbox Live Arcade

Alan Wake was a high-potential game that didn’t sell as well as expected in 2010. Critics said that the story was great, but the game play of the psychological thriller title was mediocre. Amid rivals such as the spectacular western …

Quantifying our lives will be a top trend of 2012

The Quantified Self is one of the big trends of 2012, as we noted in our recent summary of the Consumer Electronics Show.

As everything analog shifts to digital, we can collect a huge amount of data about ourselves. As …

Synaptics shows how touch controls will change in the next year

Synaptics showed off how touch controls will change in the next year at the recent Consumer Electronics Show. Synaptics has a big market share in touch application hardware and it showed off its latest products at the show.

In the …

App maker SkyGrid hits the big time with LG deal (video)

App maker SkyGrid has a plan to bring TV to your iPad. It’s also landed a promising partnership with huge Korean electronics maker LG to integrate its app technology into tens of millions of televisions.

We spent some time on …

Dylan’s Desk: Saddle your horses and fire up the 3D printer

Is there anything more American than a robot that can create anything you want out of little more than a spool of wire and some electricity? It's only a slight exaggeration to say that the MakerBot offers levels of Jeffersonian self-reliance that our founding fathers only dreamed of.

If CES was any indication, car tech is going high tech this year (pictures)

More than any other time in the history of the Consumer Electronics Show, car manufacturers showed up in full force to last week’s show in Las Vegas — a major sign that cars are going high tech this year.

While …

Our test for the best cell phone service provider at CES 2012

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, everybody wanted to talk. And when they talked on their mobile phones, they put a great deal of stress on the mobile phone carriers. We tried to figure out who handled the …

Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, hands-on with the first smartphone with enough battery life for a full day’s business use

It’s an unfortunate truth: if you want a phone that will last all day, get a dumbphone. Smartphones aren’t designed to last all day, and as the features and uses increase incrementally, the battery life has stayed a consistent not 

CSR shows how your phone can navigate inside large buildings

CSR, the leading maker of navigation chips, showed how you can use its upcoming platform to find your way inside large buildings such as the giant Las Vegas Convention Center. Now a combination of several new technologies makes it possible …

Hands-on demo of the Basis Band for tracking your daily health (video)

Basis Science is a Silicon Valley company that wants to inspire you to be more healthy and make it easier to track your health.

The company showed off its Basis B1 Band (pictured right) and its accompanying web application at …

Ubisoft developers explain the experimental survival game I am Alive (video)

The game play of I Am Alive, a title developed by Ubisoft’s Shanghai studio, is unconventional. Instead of a plethora of weapons and ammo, you’ll often find that you have very few resources for fighting. It’s a big problem if …

Hands-on with Jawbone’s Up movement-tracking band (video)

Jawbone is one of the new entrants into the market for quantifying your life. Its Up movement and sleep-tracking health wristband is aimed at people who want to keep track of and improve their health.

The product had a good …

Consumer Electronics Show breaks record with 153,000 attendees

The 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show was the biggest such event in the show’s 44-year history, with more than 153,000 attendees, up from 149,000 a year ago.

The show drew 3,100 exhibitors across 1.861 million square feet of space. The …