I admit it: Flying isn't my favorite thing. I know it's, like, a hundred times safer than driving a car or crossing a crowded street, but try telling me that at 35,000 feet during a choppy flight. Sir Richard Branson to the rescue! Read More

Pop quiz: What's the best way to deal with a schoolyard bully who's pushing you around? Do you a) run to teacher or b) punch back? Read More

More than a month after a massive server failure left Sidekick users without access to their contacts, e-mail, or Web browsing, T-Moble has quietly resumed sales of the troubled handset. The question, of course, is whether there will be many takers. Read More

Is Google working on its own Android phone? Rumors about Google going into the mobile hardware business (albeit with the help of a third party) have been alternately raised and denied ever since the Android OS was announced, but a noted tech blog just pou Read More

AT&T and Verizon Wireless are set to square off in an Atlanta courtroom Wednesday over Verizon's now-ubiquitous "There's a map for that" ad campaign, and in the latest legal salvo, Verizon chides its competitor for filing a lawsuit over the commercials, a Read More

Newspaper and magazine execs looking to erect "pay walls" around their online news content had better get creative if they expect American readers to pony up, according to a pair of new studies. Read More

After two long years (or more) of fits and starts and more than a little rejection, Dell is finally rolling into the smart phone business, for real this time. ... Read More

Those clever Verizon ads with the twin 3G U.S. coverage maps — one bathed in red for Verizon, the other patchy blue for AT&T — must really have gotten under AT&T's skin, with the carrier now appealing directly to its customers to "set the record straight. Read More

We complain incessantly, but nothing much seems to change: Gadget batteries are fundamentally no better than they were five years ago, with the possible exception that they don't tend to explode quite as often as they used to.Finally, providence is in our Read More

A pair of reports raise — once again — the possibility of a new iPhone coming to Verizon Wireless next year, with the added twist that the revamped handset would be a "hybrid" that supports both AT&T's GSM/UMTS network and Verizon's incompatible CDMA/EV-D Read More