All Things Digital

Two new Web sites — a virtual schedule assistant and a travel social-networking site — help make your trip reservations more useful and accessible.

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The SPOT Satellite Messenger gives outdoor thrill seekers a little extra insurance: It lets the folks back home track their progress, and learn when they’re OK or when they’re in trouble. However, the device isn’t perfect.

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Apple’s updates for the iPhone and iPod Touch enable more customization and outfit each device with a handful of new features, making both gadgets much more useful and fun.

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A thin pad called WildCharge allows users to charge portable devices without a messy tangle of cords and adapters.

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The $150 Vtech LS5145 Expandable Cordless Phone System synchronizes with your cellphone and redirects incoming cell calls to ring wherever the VTech phones are placed in the house.

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Palm’s Centro is geared toward younger people who traditionally only carry a cellphone. Palm hopes the $100 device, a miniature version of the more expensive Palm Treo, will give it a much needed shot in the arm.

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A new software application called Radar allows parents to monitor activity on their children’s cellphones. The program is user-friendly enough for tech-shy parents, but it doesn’t yet work with most basic cellphones.

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The iPhone is a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer, Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret say. A major drawback: the network it uses. Video

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BlackBerry users are a stubborn bunch, almost as fond of their device’s familiar features — scroll wheel, full minikeyboard and big screen — as they are of constantly checking email. So when I directed all of my work and personal email from my current BlackBerry to the newest BlackBerry 8800 for this column’s testing, I […]

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We put Google’s suite of mobile programs through the ringer to see if we might let it infiltrate our on-the-go lifestyle as easily as Google search has become an everyday part of our computer’s browser.

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T-Mobile’s Sidekick 3 might be worth buying in social circles where it’s considered cool, but its poor phone, low-resolution screen and covered keyboard design left our reviewers unimpressed.

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Walt tests a new service that attempts to be like a digital version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’s phone-a-friend, answering all sorts of questions via cellphone or email in just a few minutes.

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Walt tests two Web-based calendar and organizer programs — AirSet and Trumba OneCalendar — in a quest for more accessibility and flexibility.

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