under $200 you can double or triple battery life. The more cells and the higher the milliamp hour (mAh) rating, the longer the battery will last; standard laptop batteries often have two cells, but extended batteries can have six, eight, nine or even twelve...

Japan's cell phone industry, we can look forward to its further development with the Apple-Softbank crossover: the iPhone. According to reports, Softbank has been selected by Apple to act as the producer of its first range of iTunes-compatible cell phones,...

VoIP calls. They were clear as PSTN - and cheaper, too. All the calls I made on both services connected - and stayed connected - without a hitch, too. Outbound Calls For my outbound VoIP calls, I made nine SkypeOut calls, and six Vonage-to-PSTN (Public Switched...

super-heavy notebooks from the likes of Dell, Alienware, Toshiba and the myriad smaller scale manufacturers and vendors out there. Note that, at least for budget notebooks, vendors report battery information in different ways. Some list the number of cells...

has higher watt hours than the six-cell rated at 2.55 amp hours. That’s because it has more cells. Basic math suggests that the number of cells, along with the amp hours, will determine your watt hours. The higher the number of cells and/or amp hours, the...

which you should probably replace with a six-cell ($30) or a nine-cell ($50) model instead. For $129, you get both the six-cell and the nine-cell models, and $149 gets you two nine-cell batteries. To run six or more hours off a single battery charge, one of...

ships with a relatively paltry four-cell battery, which you should probably replace with a six-cell ($30) or a nine-cell ($50) model instead. For $129, you get both the six-cell and the nine-cell models, and $149 gets you two nine-cell batteries. To run six...