The HTC First, the first (and thus far only) phone to ship with Facebook Home, is less than a year old and yet is all but forgotten. Needless to say, that big push at a “Facebook phone” was something of a flop, but Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t let that stop him or his mobile aspirations. The …

Now playing: Watch this: Pebble introduces Steel smartwatch, app store 5:05 If 2014 is to be the year of the wearable it’s at least partly thanks to the success of the Pebble in 2013. Sure, it was 2012 that the company’s smartwatch hit Kickstarter and promptly blew the minds of many would-be entrepreneurs, raising a record-breaking $10 million on the …

The days of the Panasonic plasma TV are over, the company having confirmed last year that it’s ceasing plasma production in just a few months. But, that doesn’t mean it is leaving the display market. Far from it. What does Panny have in store for the rest of 2014, and can a new selection of LCDs possibly fill the giant, …

It could be said that Nokia is late to the market with the Lumia 2520, a 10-inch tablet running Windows RT that launches in the US on Wednesday. But dig a little deeper and you’ll find that the $500 slate is something of a return to a form. By today’s definition, 2005’s Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, with its 4.1-inch WVGA …

TOKYO, Japan — There are plenty of shows around the world where you can see great consumer devices. Plenty of shows that trot out the gadgets that will hit stores in the next few weeks or months, gadgets already being stamped out on pristine manufacturing lines somewhere. Though hugely important, these shows rarely offer a glimpse into anything beyond the …

Panos Panay, the Microsoft VP in charge of Surface, today displayed a different way to use the company’s tablet at the unveiling of the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2. Called the Surface Remix Project, it’s clearly based on the same touch-sensitive technology of the Touch Cover 2 but with a different template on top that changes the functionality — …