Stories About Rob Schoeben

• Droid vs. iPhone: Smartphone GPS Shootout Which smartphone GPS app reigns supreme? We pitted Google Android's free app against the $100 TomTom for iPhone, and found a clear winner.
• Outage: BlackBerry Users May Be Upset, But Have Few Options The second e-mail outage in a week leaves BlackBerry users concerned, but where can they really go?
• Hackers Claim Victory in Cracking Amazon Kindle DRM Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader is coming under assault by hackers, who say they've figure out ways to export protected content for use on other devices.
• HP Photosmart Plus Prints Great-Looking Output Quickly and Cheaply A good bargain, the Photosmart Plus offers impressive speed and print quality for the price, plus Wi-Fi.
• Canon Pixma MP560 Wireless Photo All-in-One Offers Cheap Ink and Plentiful Features for the Price For a reasonable price, you get automatic duplexing and dual 150-sheet input trays, but the trade-off is mediocre print speed.
• Epson Artisan 810 Has Speed and Features Galore, but Output Quality Is Disappointing This speedy MFP comes loaded, but it should have better overall print quality for the price.
• What a Dumb Decade: The 87 Lamest Moments in Tech A year-by-year look back at the biggest blunders and goofiest stories of 2000 through 2009.
• Last Minute Gifts for Photographers Time is running out. You put off shopping for the photographer in your life until dangerously late. Now there's not enough time to have something shipped, and...
• World Tech Update: Year-end Special Join us as we take a look back at our favorite gadgets, robots and prototypes from 2009
• OLPC Plans Super-Thin, Super-Cheap Tablet Non-profit says the touchscreen tablet, called the XO-3, will cost $75, and is slated for release in 2012.
• India's Mobile Subscriber Base Crosses 500 Million Mark India's mobile subscribers crossed 500 million in November.
• My Hard Drive is Making Funny Noises Lunaflora’s hard drive is making a clicking noise. She asked the Answer Line forum for advice.
• Waiting for a Wintery Nature Shot This week's Snapshot is an appropriately seasonal photograph from Kellen Witschen, a high school student from Aurora, MN. The picture was taken with a Nikon D80...
• Blackberry Outage: RIM Should Compensate Users For the second time in a week, a service outage has left BlackBerry users without access to e-mail.
• Nortel Accepts $282M Bid for VoIP Unit Nortel Networks has entered into an agreement with GENBAND to sell its Carrier VoIP (Voice over IP) and Application Solutions business for US$281 million.