The Palm Pixi, the slimmer sibling of Palm Pre, is set to debut on the Sprint network on November 15. Priced at $100 (after rebates) with a two-year deal, the Pixi is a reworked Pre with a few significant changes, including an exposed (not slide-out) keyboard, a slightly smaller display, no Wi-Fi, and a new...

Call it the legacy of Microsoft’s Vista operating system. PC users upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 have run into a variety of hair pulling problems since last Thursday when Windows 7 launched. Complaints range from endless reboots to refusals by Windows to accept Microsoft’s assigned...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–For a bunch of search engineers, Google employees care an awful lot about energy and the environment.Google hosted an event for employees Monday featuring Steven Chu, the U.S. secretary of energy under President Obama and a man Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said “may become...

Correction, 5:25 p.m. PDT: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the number of iPhones AT&T sold in the third quarter. The company has not disclosed that information. This story also incorrectly described Verizon Wireless’ churn rate. The story has been corrected to reflect the...

DID someone order an iPhone killer? It looks like LG put in its request and the LG Viewty Smart answered the call. The update to 2007’s Viewty phone is smaller than an iPhone, with a slimmer and lighter body and a screen that measures 3in rather than 3.5in. But at least one part of the Viewty Smart is...