Stories by: Keith Shaw

T-Mobile, HTC and Google launched the "world's first Android-powered mobile phone" today and proudly announced that this phone was going to be "game-changing". But after reading details on the phone, the service and some of the new applications, I'm left wondering where the game is actually changing.

Get the Google-eyed view of the main Beijing Olympic sites

One of my initial thoughts after hearing about the iPhone 3G was, "Hmmm, I wonder how the enterprise is going to keep this device out of the office." Last year, the checklist of reasons why IT shouldn't support it was pretty long, but Apple appears to have seen the lists and solved lots of these items.

Quick looks at the coolest new devices for the Apple fans in your life.

Just when you've figured out the settings on your latest smart phone, digital camera or GPS device from last holiday, along comes this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas with a whole new batch of electronic goodies to get you ready for 2008. Here's a bunch of new items I can't wait to see at the show:

The scoop: Pleo, by Ugobe, about US$350

The scoop: N800 Internet Tablet, by Nokia, about US$400.

Instead of calling its LifeBook U1010 an ultraportable or ultramobile portable PC, Fujitsu calls it a mini-notebook, which might be more of a marketing term than a specific product category.

Wrapping up the year with some odds and ends as I get ready for the onslaught of new cool tools in January 2007:

A canceled flight, big crowds, long cab lines and even lost luggage couldn't deter my enthusiasm at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show, the annual trade show that gets bigger each year. Among the large TVs (Samsung was showing the world's first 102-inch TV screen), digital cameras and home theater speakers were some pretty cool network and storage devices. While some of these products might not be out for a few months, the following devices and technologies got me pumped up:

Hewlett-Packard (HP) next week takes the cover off a range of new PDAs and other mobile devices, including a converged device that combines wireless LAN connectivity, wide-area wireless and personal-area networking.