Step aside QR codes, a new comparison-shopping tool is on its way. IBM Research is working on an app that will marry real-time shopping in-store with comparison shopping online. The app will allow consumers to take images on their…Read more

  Black Friday may be famous for its door busting deals, but it’s infamous for the ridiculous and sometimes terrifying things people do on the big day to save big bucks. So while out shopping for those day-after Thanksgiving savings. Here…Read more

  In terms of specs, performance, and features, the iPhone 5 is Apple’s best to date. This doesn’t mean it’s as good as it could be, however. There were a few egregious omissions from the keynote presentation – features that…Read more

  Turn iBooks into audio books: Like most smartphones, the iPhone has a number of accessibility options. One feature is called VoiceOver and it can read aloud any text on the screen. While designed primarily for the seeing impaired, anyone…Read more

When President Obama famously dined with a handful of Silicon Valley titans a year ago, he had a question for Apple chief Steve Jobs, say Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher in The New York Times: What would it take to…Read more