As more electronic devices become networked, consumers are flocking to gadgets with built-in wireless access, according to a report released Monday by In-Stat. Worldwide shipments of TVs with Wi-Fi are expected to jump from less than 5 million last year to around 65 million in 2014. Wi-Fi-enabled Blu-ray players will also be up there, with …

Microsoft isn’t known for giving away software, but right now you can download the Top 100s by Year by Bing app free of charge. (Catchy name, huh?) The app streams the top 100 songs of every year from 1947 to 2009. That’s 62 years, for a grand total of 6,200 songs. Whose top 100? Not Billboard’s, as you might expect. …

Faster and better doesn’t always mean more expensive, at least with some wireless networks. Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA are readying their next-generation wireless networks, which they hope will help them take on rivals AT&T and Verizon Wireless. And if speed doesn’t do it, price could help: Sprint and T-Mobile are each keeping prices on these new services low to …

The launch of Sky News HD this Thursday creates an aesthetic dichotomy for British TV viewers. On the one hand, we think it’s smashing that our news will be rendered in handsome HD. On the other, Sunrise with Eamonn Holmes will become totally unsuitable for all humans with functioning eyes. Sky has developed its news centre in West London into …

Article updated 5/3/2010 at 1:28 pm with new details about operating system compatibility. About a year and a half after releasing a mobile version of its personal-finance service for the iPhone, Mint.com is bringing its free credit-card and budget tracker to Android phones. As with the iPhone app, passcode-protected Mint.com on Android has you monitoring credit card, bank, and investment …

It’s been about a month since Twitter began contributing its official apps to the BlackBerry marketplace, rather than sitting back and letting third-party developers take the reins. We checked out Twitter’s new, free, official in-house Android app over the weekend and for the most part, we’ve been liking what we see. While there’s no shortage of third-party Twitter apps in …

Aliph Jawbone Icon owners rejoice: you will now be able to add A2DP or stereo Bluetooth functionality to your Bluetooth headset for the unbeatable price of zero dollars. All you have to do is plug in your Icon headset to the computer, log on to Aliph’s MyTalk Web site, go to the “Innovations” section, and then add the new A2DP …

The iPad 3G’s first weekend at market was a successful one, though not quite as successful as that of its Wi-Fi-only predecessor. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster estimates that Apple sold about 300,000 iPad 3Gs between Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon, including 52 days of preorders. That’s approximately what the original iPad sold during its first day of availability, including …

If it looks like a newspaper and reads like a newspaper, it must be a newspaper, right? Actually, The Early Edition serves up RSS feeds. Beautifully. Rick Broida When people ask me how I like my new iPad and what I’m using it for, I answer as follows: “I like it, and I’m using it mostly for reading.” Not books–I …

T-Mobile’s latest Android device isn’t the biggest surprise, considering all the various leaks over the past couple of months, but nonetheless, we’re glad that we can finally talk about the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Slide with official authority. Slated for a June release (specific availability date and pricing were not announced at this time), the Slide is the latest model to …