Stories by: Sarah Jacobsson Purewal

Not all Android apps are created equal, and most are far from perfect.

Photon is a futuristic match-three puzzle game designed in the drop-down style of Tetris. Your goal is to clear screens by connecting brightly colored discs with your finger. The app, developed by Bifrost Studios, is free on Google Play but requires an in-app purchase of $0.99 for full functionality. Unfortunately, while Photon is fun and addictive, it suffers from multiple performance issues that its designer needs to address.

The Samsung Series 5 Ultra is the company's first foray into the Ultrabook market (if you don’t count the Series 9, which predates the Ultrabook brand). There's just one problem: It weighs nearly 4 pounds, and measures 0.82 inch thick. In other words, this 14-inch laptop is closer to a regular ol' ultraportable than it is to an Ultrabook.

Samsung and Research in Motion are being sued for supposedly infringing on another company’s patent, yet another example of why our current patent system desperately needs a revision.

HP's Omni line is known for its speediness - the HP Omni 200 Quad is one of the quickest budget all-in-one PCs we've tested - and the HP Omni 220 Quad, which starts at $US1000 (as of March 14, 2012), is no different. Actually, it is different: It's even faster than the Omni 200.

A laptop's portability makes it convenient - and an easy target for thieves.

GroupMe is a free app that allows you to message multiple people at once. I know what you're thinking--you can already text message multiple people at once, all you have to do is add multiple numbers to the "To:" field in your texting app--even non-smartphones have this ability. GroupMe is different, though: It doesn't just let you send messages to multiple people, it lets you have a group conversation.

I could start off by saying that Bejeweled 2 is a match-three game - but really, Bejeweled 2 is the match-three game.

Mobile World Congress doesn't start until the end of February, but it appears some phone makers aren't very patient. According to phone blog Pocket-lint, Acer has leaked some details on its latest handset, the Acer CloudMobile.

HP's TouchSmart 9300 Elite is a business-centric, all-in-one powerhouse. It may not be much to look at, but it delivers excellent performance, sits on an easy-to-adjust stand, and even tackles multimedia rather well.