Since Eric Schmidt made the rather bold proclamation that "most" new TVs would have Google TV embedded by summer 2012, we've all been looking forward to something "big" from Mountain View. Well, in the event you can believe the services' Facebook page, "big announcements" are only what we are able to expect Monday. A post on Google TV's profile leaves a great deal to the imagination,… »

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On , a column about consumer technology. In the pre-smartphone era, the industry thinking about making mobile phones smaller. Within the 2001 movie Zoolander, the title character played by Ben Stiller uses a humorously diminutive flip phone in the direction of the dimensions of a Bluetooth headset than the StarTAC it parodies. But when the… »