Anthony Myers

Apple's iPad 2 may be $100 cheaper than the new iPad, but the new iPad is still better in at least five ways. When the new iPad was unveiled March 7 in San Francisco, it included many new features like a high-speed internet connection, improved camera and added photo software and HD quality display. But two other additions help cement the new iPad's position as the tablet to beat, even more so than the uber-popular iPad 2.

Apple's new iPad will go on sale March 16 for $500 (16GB Wi-Fi only) so here's the top five new features explained. There are more than five new features, but we're going in depth on the five best.

Prospective tablet buyers may have been holding off on buying a new device until Apple announced the new iPad. Now that we know the iPad 2 is down to $400, so here's why it's a better deal.

Apple product launches tend to bring out much speculation about what features a new device might have, but now consumers are getting wise to Apple's ways, so there wasn't quite the barrage of rumors this time. With the new iPad released, let's see which predictions were right and which were wrong. First, the name. Nobody got this one right. It's just iPad, not iPad 3 or HD. Perhaps all the new iPads will be just iPad, and people can take to calling them by year like with automobile m...

Apple debuted the New iPad, a new Apple TV interface and device capable of 1080p video streaming and an iOS version 5.1 update March 7 at a press conference in San Francisco. Here are the top exciting features in the new tablet and the new additions to iOS and the Apple TV.

iPad 3 will launch today with a press conference in San Francisco, and live coverage starts at 10 a.m. PST with bloggers, reporters and other hangers on broadcasting, streaming, liveblogging and livetweeting the event from every angle. How, when and where to watch online will depend on if you want a video feed, audio or liveblog - the most popular option.

Apple will fire the first shot in the 2012 super-tablet battle with Google and Microsoft March 7 as it finally releases the iPad 3. It's now rumored to be going on sale March 16, and we're guessing it will be $500 for the 16 gigabyte Wi-Fi version.

Apple and Samsung are engaged in a tech titan battle of smartphones and tablets, and two of their best are compared here as the iPad 3 or iPad HD release is close at hand. Samsung's Verizon only Galaxy Tab 7.7 is a solid, if expensive, device that could be perfect for someone not looking for a full size tablet. If the iPad 3 debuts with at 9.7-inch screen like the iPad 2, that would make it slightly larger than the Galaxy Tab 7.7.

After hacking into the CIA, Sony, PayPal and Mastercard Web sites over the years, Sabu, suspected leader of Anonymous splinter group LulzSec pled guilty to 12 counts of conspiracy to engage in computer hacking March 6. Five other suspected hackers were also arrested March 6, and it now looks as if Sabu, also known as Hector Xavier Monsegur, had been cooperating with the FBI since the middle of 2011, according to papers filed in a Manhattan court.

Apple will make a big announcement March 7 in San Francisco, and we're certain it will be a new iPad. Besides that, it's all rumors. Here's what we know so far. From a suspected iPad Mini (a seven-inch tablet) to a new display going from edge to edge on the screen, there's plenty of speculation about what iPad 3 will look like. In fact, the latest rumor is it will be iPad HD instead of iPad 3 or iPad 2S.

A new 16 gigabyte version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus appears to be headed to Verizon April 5, and HTC could debut the Droid Incredible 3 4G April 26, according to an internal Verizon memo leaked by tech blog Droid Life. There are a total of five devices listed in the document under the heading 'Device Launch Information' and the new Nexus could even get a discounted price if Verizon keeps with precedent.

Hanover, Germany is the host city for the CeBIT conference starting March 6 through March 10, but a company called Tobit Software has already captured the crowd's imagination with a pole-dancing robot. As the second decade of the 21st century advances on, so does the robot world and the realm of mobile technology. From autonomous quadcoptors to a DARPA built four-legged Cheetah robot and exoskeleton supports for the disabled, the tech is advancing very rapidly.

Toshiba will launch the Excite 10 LE tablet on March 6 for $530, one day before the March 7 release of the new iPad 3. Here's how they stack up. Toshiba announced the Excite X10 tablet at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, and when the device appeared again at the Mobile World Congress, it was the Excite 10 LE. It's going to be one of the iPad's top competitors along with the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity.

March 7 can't get here fast enough for Apple iPad fans, and it will be the best one yet because of new features like 4G and a vastly improved camera. While many consumers still haven't been convinced why they should buy a tablet computer at all, millions have bought iPads for work and for play. Many come for the apps, but most stay for the intuitive touchscreen and lightweight design for ease of mobility.

iPad 3 should get a full release March 7, but will people want the iPad 3 or iPhone 5 more? Both will be must-have devices for millions of people, and we can expect thousands of people to camp out in a couple weeks when the iPad goes on sale. But, can any device build up as much hype as the iPhone?

Whether you buy the iPad 3 (iPad 2S?) or the Asus Transformer Pad 300, you'll want to get the most out of your new tablet, so here's how.

Apple plans to unveil something it wants us to see and touch, according to the press invites it sent out at the end of February. It could be an all new iPad 3, of course, but Apple could opt to debut a new iOS version 6 as well. Other rumors include a new Apple TV 2, iPad Mini announcement or an iPod Touch.

March 7 will see the unveiling of Apple's newest iPad, and whether it's an iPad 3 or iPad 2S, it will likely sell millions. Even if we don't know the exact features it will have yet, we can see where the tablet world is headed, and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt already announced Google is working on its own tablet.

MWC 2012 turned out to be the Microsoft show, and there were even a couple of new Windows Phone 7 devices unveiled. Mobile World Congress may be most remembered for not having debuted the iPad 3 or the Samsung Galaxy S3, but for Microsoft fans, it was show they may never forget.

Samsung may debut the Galaxy S3 smartphone in April according to reports from the Korean manufacturer's marketing team Cheil Worldwide. Samsung didn't debut the Galay S2 at the Mobile World Congress because it said there would be a stand alone release set before summer. The Galaxy S2 smartphone did appear at the 2011 MWC, but its runaway success has afforded Samsung to take the Apple approach and hold its own press event for the unveiling.

AT&T has ended its unlimited data plans, but U.S. mobile phone users on Sprint now must be asking if their carrier will hold out much longer. Sprint offers unlimited data plans to new and existing customers, and AT&T customers who use more than three gigabytes of data may now be asking if it's worth it to switch. That's because AT&T has put a speed cap on heavy data users, claiming its network is too crowded.

Trying to decide between the all new iPad 3 or the reduced price $450 iPad 2 is made all the more difficult because we still don't know what the new iPad will look like. It sure won't be $450 like the 16 gigabyte iPad 2 at Best Buy. For that price, the only other tablets that really comes close to being as good of a deal is the year old Asus Transformer, and it's still $400.

Apple's March 7 release date for the iPad 3 is one day closer, and the rumors are flying with such abandon, it's not hard to see how the event could easily be a let down.

Asus took dead aim at the iPad with its Transformer Prime launch, but with the Transformer Pad Infinity now unveiled, the Taiwanese company has the best chance yet deliver the killer blow to the iPad 3. Apple has sold more tablet computers than just about every other manufacturer combined, so any new device that comes out inevitably gets compared to the iPad.

MWC 2012 was the best place to find the newest mobile gear, and that it's over, check out the 10 best new tablets that can take on the iPad 3. Apple will unveil the new iPad March 7 in San Francisco, but other manufacturers have already shown off their best attempts at blowing Apple away. One of the ways Samsung, Asus, Sony, Tothiba and Fujitsu plan to do that is by including the Tegra 3 quad-core processing system in their 10 and seven-inch offerings.

AT&T has caved to pressure from their longtime subscribers who still have unlimited data plans, and the throttling of mobile data speeds that began back in October will now be done at a higher threshold. AT&T has nearly 17 million unlimited data subscribers on its mobile broadband network, and anyone in the top five percent of data usage was getting their download speeds greatly reduced after only using two gigabytes of data. That ceiling has been raised to three gigabytes, the Wall Street Journ...

Once Apple unveils the new iPad March 7, we'll know for sure if it's an iPad 3 or and iPad 2S, but what's the difference in how they name their devices? An iPad 3 would mean a new body design like when the iPhone 4 came out. It was a different shape than the iPhone 3GS, with less curved edges and with an all new glass back panel.

Apple will release the iPad 3 March 7, so here's what to expect and what not to expect. Once Apple unveils the new iPad, it should go on sale in a week, so get your backpack ready if you plan on camping out at the Apple store. With all the new features,

Microsoft's enormous research and development program may not be well known, but that could be about to change. Stunning new research projects recently unveiled at a TechForum event in January show new designs like holographic 3-D displays and see-through monitors. These prototypes may never become consumer products, but they integrate popular functions and help develop other uses and ideas that will show up in gadgets. Take Microsoft Kinect, for example. The sensors used in Kinect have so fa...