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IDC's latest figures offer some predictable reading. More phones are being sold than ever before; 406 million units were sold in Q2, against 401.8 million in the same period last year -- with a 42 percent increase in smartphone sales. The winners? Pe...

Rogers was the first with LTE in Canada. Its budget brand Fido has largely been left out of that 4G fiesta, but the gap is closing today with official plans to give the yellow doghouse some LTE of its own. The initial deployment this summer will larg...

Being eco-friendly starts with the everyday products you use, and that includes gadgets. However, finding green gadgets that actually do the environment good isn't as easy as it sounds. Fortunately, we've rounded up five awesome cardboard gadgets...

We've chronicled Flight of the Century founder and CEO Chip Yates' record-breaking 202.6MPH flight in his Long-ESA EV craft before. What we didn't quite touch on, however, is the power loss Yates' aircraft suffered after earning that electric plane s...

Lew Tucker is the distinguished Cloud CTO for Cisco Systems. He's a revered character in the "clouderati," community for his clear views and his support for OpenStack, the open cloud effort that is getting a lot of attention these past few weeks. He's also a proponent of open source. In this video, he says open source is an increasing part of Cisco's future. It's a way to give back to the community and make the world a better place. He describes how Cisco is responding to the market need for an alternative to Amazon Web Services. He says Cisco sees that as an opportunity to develop a network based service that is an integral part of OpenStack.

Bugs are creepy. You don't need to be an entomophobe to empathize with that sentiment. But bugs are also inspiring -- to researchers in China, that is. Taking a cue from nature, a team of engineers from the country's School of Chemical Engineering an...

Photographing something is an art form, literally, and when things don't go your way, they sometimes turn out better than you expect. We call these strange photos snapped at the perfect angle, and the two photographs above are prime examples. Con...

I've gone through various stages of "connectedness" in my life. We all have. Some of you are so young that you've never known anything else and some of you remember the days when you only knew the local news and big events like going to the moon. Today, we no longer have to rely on travelers spreading information like a game of telephone through roadside diners along Route 66. Nowadays the whole world is a social media stage, where everyone can step up to the mic and say hello and someone might listen.

Toying with the idea of picking up a keyboard-dockable Windows 8 slate? Take your pick -- since Computex (and Microsoft's own Surface unveiling), these devices have popping up like wildflowers -- and one of them may have just slipped through federal ...

While it may look like a 3D video, it's just liquid nitrogen in ultra slow motion being placed in a hot frying pan. In scientific terms, the "Leidenfrost effect is caused by the liquid produces an insulating vapour layer when it comes in contact ...