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The iPad 2 is only just out in public, but the iPhone 5 rumors are now ramping up, with hints the new phone may get an all-metal makeover. Does this make good sense

The next stage in the search engine wars has arrived: Microsoft is boosting its Bing system with a similar " instant results " feature to Google 's, bringing a pseudo-real time feel to search that aims to speed up the process significantly. Google introduced "instant" search feedback recently to increase the speed and efficiency of search--the system pops up a suggested list of search query matches as you're actually typing, just in case the results meet your needs before you go through the tedious business of typing out a complete search string. Now Microsoft, which is busy expanding Bing's search engine into a very serious rival for Google, is trying something very similar

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and CultofMac.com editor Leander Kahney discuss Google, content farms, and Demand Media (plus a personal account of how the tweaked algorithm almost ruined Kahney's business) in our latest edition of The Cold Call. Welcome to another edition of Cold Call , where we zing a question to our favorite CEOs, entrepreneurs, VCs, and tech evangelists to see how they answer--and how you'd respond.

With memories of the trilogy fading from minds of recent generations, Lord Lucas deemed it time to re-energize his movies with a new type of Force--3-D.

The rise of the tablet computer has me thinking about the future of computers. How many computers surround me right now? I have my office computer, my computer at home, a netbook, my smartphone, my BlueAnt…it seems like computers are everywhere.

Apple now has the iPad 2. Research in Motion has its Playbook. Google has a plethora of Android tablets, including the Motorola Zoom getting so much attention.

Today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the second-generation iPad.

On February 16th, IBM’s super computer, named Watson, won a three day Jeopardy match against two human Jeopardy champions. What gave Watson an edge over human competitors is that Watson is designed to answer a question in just three seconds , resulting in Watson consistently buzzing in faster more often than humans. But Watson’s AI is not perfect.

I recently did something that will sound really stupid. I bought an iPad literally days before the release of the iPad 2. I have no regrets, however

If Apple is correct that 88 percent of Fortune 500 companies have tested or deployed its iPad tablet in some fashion then there's a hungrier appetite for tablets in the business world than previous believed. And if anyone could make a serious dent in the small-to-medium business and enterprise space, it's Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of the popular BlackBerry smartphone.