
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageHe's a tweeter. He's a wier. Dan Craven; Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I knew the headline was true, because it was on Twitter.More precisely, it was on the official Twitter Sports feed. It read, "Namibian#Olympics cyclist Tweeted through his entire race."Immediately, I pictured a heaving human with one hand on the handlebars and the other clutching his iPhone. Then I looked at the small print. Beneath Twitter Sports' headline that would no longer pass muster on Facebook was a clarification...
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You don't have to know the name "Mobile World Congress" to appreciate what the aual blockbuster conference means for anyone who loves phones, tablets, smartphones, and really, anything that has to do with the wireless world. After all, it's at this trade show each February that Samsung typically unveils its flagship phone, like this year's Galaxy S7.Starting September 2017, a little more than a year from now, the US will get its own Mobile World Congress Americas, and that means more wireless products and news for you. This is the first time that the Mobile World Congress brand will make a big US splash, and it's happening because of a partnership between two organizations: GSMA, a European...
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RoadshowNewsCar IndustryVolkswagen's comeback tour stars 30 electric vehicles and a whole lot of batteriesEnlarge ImageIf every electric VW resembled Budd-E here, I'd be okay with that. Antuan Goodwin/Roadshow To anyone who's been following the news since, oh, last September or so, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Volkswagen is not putting much future focus on its diesel vehicles. For the whole of 2016, the brand's increased its focus on electrification, and it has some ambitious plans for its vehicles.Volkswagen recently aounced its "TOGETHER -- Strategy 2025" plan, a hippy-dippy-sounding name that encom...
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