Heidi Klum was only half correct on Project Runway. It’s true that one day you’re in and the next day, you’re out. But a few years after that? You could be in again. That pendulum swing applies not just in fashion — though I refuse to believe that pleated pants deserve a comeback — but …

Picture it: San Francisco, July 4, 2006. It’s a year before the first iPhone would go on sale and six months before we even knew for sure that the earth-shattering handset existed. Sure we had “smartphones” at the time, in the form of Palm Treos and assorted Windows Mobile devices (for you youngsters out there, that was Microsoft’s software before Windows …

The US Supreme Court stepped into the long-running debate over wireless and health on Thursday when it vacated a Berkeley, California, law requiring retailers to warn customers about possible wireless radiation exposure. Berkeley’s “Right to Know” ordinance, which went into effect in 2016 after years of discussion, mandated that anyone buying a cell phone in the city receive a notice …

It’s been a miserable year so far for Facebook, and it just keeps getting worse. CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before both houses of Congress this week to address a range of volatile issues, from the 87 million user profiles accessed by data analyst firm Cambridge Analytica to the company’s role in spreading fake news in the US, the UK and other countries. …

One of the best things about coming to Mobile World Congress is getting away from the cold, dreary weather in London and much of the US to spend a few days on the sunny and pleasant Mediterranean coast of Spain. The 2018 show started off that way, but Barcelona on Tuesday, like much of Europe, was hit by frigid weather, …

Battery life will make or break any phone. But while we all say that we want a phone that will last all day, we also don’t want the battery, and the phone it holds, to be too big. To date, walking that line between a thin phone and one with marathon battery life has been a challenge. And few phones …

Haier showed up at Mobile World Congress 2018 eager to prove that there are still features to crank out of a wearable.  The new Asu Smartwatch is boxy, bulky and hides a tiny projector. It’s not what you’re looking for if you want a sleek or stylish accessory. But the Asu is still a conversation piece.  The projector is tiny, but …

Western Digital came to Mobile World Congress hoping to prove that great things do come in small packages by unveiling a new 400GB SanDisk Extreme UHS-I microSDXCT card.  But that card isn’t just large, it’s also tipped to be fast with read speeds of up to 160MB/s and write speeds of up to 90MB/s. Western Digital says that makes it more …

Of the five phones that Nokia introduced on Sunday here at Mobile World Congress 2018, the Nokia 1 doesn’t stand at the front of the feature queue. Instead, it’s built for anyone who wants an affordable easy-to-use phone, primarily for (gasp) making calls, but still wants to be able to be able to go online, take a photo and listen …

Deep in an underground hall of the Sands Expo Center is a section of CES 2018 called Eureka Park. It’s here, a short walk (well, short for Las Vegas) from the gold casino of The Venetian hotel, where the startups of the giant tech show gather. It’s not a particularly inspiring place, even in the bland world of exhibit halls. …