Oops! Motorola sold refurbished Xooms without deleting previous owners’ data

Usually, when passwords and personal information are exposed, it’s because someone hacked a company’s not-so-secure system. Motorola, however, managed to put people’s info at risk without such malfeasance when it failed to wipe the memory of a batch o…

Three COWs descend on Lucas Oil Stadium, courtesy of Verizon Wireless (video)

When you think of Super Bowl Sunday, many images likely come to mind: malty beverages, nachos, high-budget commercials and — oh, yeah — football. Even amongst us mobile fanatics, however, cellular coverage rarely crosses the mind. Fortunately, that’…

WiFi certification fuels speculation of Samsung Galaxy Note successor

The Samsung Galaxy Note is just now working its way to the States, but a recent certification by the WiFi Alliance is already stoking the flames of its replacement. Known only as the GT-N8000, it’s thought this device may be the eventual replacement…

Fitbit’s Aria WiFi scale tracks weight, BMI and body fat percentage (hands-on)

We might never know the untold number of people who bought Withings’ WiFi scale for tweeting their daily weigh-ins, but it must have been an impressive enough figure, as Fitbit just announced something very similar. The Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale trac…