DIGITAL LIFE

Motorola is putting a Droid Razr 2.0 out January 26, so let's see how the Droid Razr Maxx compares to the popular Samsung Galaxy S2. Motorola announced the Razr Maxx at the International Consumer Electronics Show Jan. 9, and it's virtually identical to the Droid Razr, but with a bigger battery.

Apple once again didn't show up to International CES this year, but Lenovo debuted dozens of products, and their new IdeaTab S2 is the kind of tablet meant to cut into iPad 3 sales later this year.

Canada-based Vivick is not just another industrial design company. It is a company that is out on a simple, yet serious mission – creating designs that represent a perfect marriage of form, fashion and functionality. So what makes Vivick a world-class design studio for IT peripherals and accessories? Find out here.

Now that the Android 4.0 update is out in the world, more and more apps will be made just for the new system, and Google wants to make sure those apps meet a few basic standards. The wild west days of Android app development seem to be numbered. That's because Google debuted the Android Design Web site Jan. 12, and it will serve as a kind of style guide for prospective app developers to follow.

Celebrities constantly generate attention on the microblogging Web site Twitter, but Rupert Murdoch is a media mogul, and because he is so new to Twitter, his messages provide some insight into the powerful man's mind. That was particularly evident when Murdoch took some time out during International CES to muse about how terrible an idea it was for his company News Corp to buy MySpace back in 2005.

It's the last day of International CES, CNET has announced their best of show awards, and we still don't have a new iPad, so we've put together our own best of CES in pictures. There was so much on offer at this year's show, there is no way to produce a comprehensive list, but we've got some high quality photos of some awesome new products you may see on the shelves before the year is out.

Apple iPhone 4S made its debut in Beijing, China after a great deal of labor pain.

Russia said on Thursday said it was expecting debris from its failed Mars probe to fall to earth from Sunday to Monday, but added it could not be sure of the exact crash site.

A new molecule has been detected in the earth's atmosphere which could help produce a cooling effect, scientists said, but it remains to be seen whether it can play a major role in tackling global warming.

More than one in 10 British-based scientists or doctors have witnessed colleagues intentionally altering or fabricating data during their research, according to a survey by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on Thursday.

The wireless industry is looking at new ways to deliver mobile video services and charging consumers as it tries to boost usage without overloading networks, a top Verizon Wireless technology executive said.

Verizon Communications Inc is pushing hard to move its FiOS TV service beyond the set-top box and onto the latest gadgets - from TVs and tablets to gaming consoles - to fend off competition from online video services such as Netflix Inc, Amazon Inc and Apple's Inc iTunes.

For those who missed Apple's presence at CES 2012, there is some good news - Apple is going to hold an event in New York City and this time, it is about education. Disappointed? But it is still an Apple event!

This year's Consumer Electronics Show turned out to be the largest on record, despite a slow economy and what many industry pundits agree is a dearth of genuine scene-stealers.

Foxconn, the top technology independent contractor in the world, has settled a dispute with a multitude of employees, who threatened with mass suicide to protest low pay and dismal working conditions at its Wuhan factory in China.

Private equity firm TPG Capital is willing to invest about $1 billion in Japan's Olympus Corp in a joint deal with Sony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hit firm, a person familiar with TPG's thinking said.

Steve Jobs' influence over the people has not waned even though he passed away four months back. Besides biography, documentaries, action figures and TV specials, the people have found another way to immortalize the person who has changed the way they interact with technology - publisher Bluewater Productions released a Jobs-themed comic book on Wednesday.

With Spring approaching, the rumors of Apple's forthcoming tablet, dubbed iPad 3, are surfacing endlessly. The newest one is that Sharp, which is originally thought to manufacture iPad 3's LCD panels, is reportedly now out of the tablet's display supply chains.

Tech startups be warned - herein lies the cautionary tale of Uber, a service and mobile app that gets you a cab and lets you pay for it with your phone. Uber uses a sliding pay scale depending on how high demand is for the service. If it's busy, you pay more; slow and you pay less.

The internet is an endless series of information waterfalls--real-time data streams--waiting to be organized. At least, that's what Flow founder Eric Alterman believes. He's betting big on a new platform he's creating that will allow people to exchange real-time data in almost any realm of digital existence.

There's but one more day for the Consumer Electronics Show, but before CNET's traditional Best of CES list comes out, here's what busted out of the huge trade show on day two. Most of the press has gone to so-called smart televisions, super-thin notebook computers and mobile devices, but they represent only a fraction of tech coming out of Las Vegas.

Here is a big news for the iBook fans, French hacker @xvolks said on Thursday that he has patched the kernel in Corona to make iBooks work without the ugly tweak called xBooks. In addition, the hacker community recently made a big progress towards release iOS 5 untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2.

Google has already begun including Google+ content in its search results, but new domain names like .Apple and .Samsung are soon to arrive, and it could again alter search results. Until April 12, companies will be allowed to submit their chosen domain name suffix to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and they begin using their new dot company (.company) or dot business (.business) address for their Web sites.

San-Diego, Calif.-based gaming products and accessories maker Razer unveiled the world's first true gaming tablet, nicknamed Project Fiona, at CES 2012 in Las Vegas.

Japanese technology major NEC showed off a clamshell-hinged Android-powered device called LT-W Cloud Communicator at CES 2012 in Las Vegas, but is it really such a great device to sing and dance about?

Here's a good news for Droid Razr fans. If you've been whining about the smartphone's battery life, then whine no more because Motorola has launched the Droid Razr Maxx, which boasts of a better battery life.

When we think of gaming laptops, a few names that come to mind are Asus, MSI and , of course, Alienware, the current leader in the gaming laptop market. However, they all now face a new threat called Razer Blade.

Hampton Adams has been one of CES' most loyal devotees for 15 years. But unlike a good chunk of the 140,000-plus who descend on the world's largest technology showcase every January, the portfolio manager is less keen on fiddling with cutting-edge technology than picking winners.

Global PC shipments declined 1.4 percent in the last quarter of 2011 mainly due to weak demand in Western Europe and the United States, according to research firm Gartner.