Like any other Target fanatic, I try to stay on top of the sales and deals year-round, but they get especially juicy around back-to-school time. Not only can you find a great deal on something you've had on your wish list all year (a Flip camcorder!), but you can stock up on all of the essentials. You know, ink, netbooks, flash drives, ereaders, that sort of thing. This weekend's circular is Read more

HP has announced a line of Internet-connected printers designed to easily work with a smartphone or other Internet-connected device. The printers come equipped with both an email address and cloud access to accept print jobs. Since they're wired directly to the Internet, they eliminate the need for a print server or PC; just email or upload your file from any device for easy printing. The Read more

Nevermind that the iPad doesn't have Flash support or a camera, one of the other (and, admittedly, more minute) drawbacks is lack of printing capabilities. Say you buy a book through the iBookstore and want a hard copy of your receipt (for expense purposes perhaps), you aren't able to since the iPad is driver-free. Using one of Google's soon-to-be-released Cloud Printing apps — for the iPad, Read more

Nokia's upcoming Booklet will offer 12 hours of battery life and have WiFi and a SIM card slot for 3G access — Engadget Lexmark has just unveiled three web-connected touchscreen printers — CNET California may start banning environmentally unfriendly televisions by 2011 — Unplggd With the new Zune HD coming out on Sept. 15, Microsoft has decided to discontinue all other Zunes — Wired A Read more

This morning here in San Francisco, HP announced their first web-enabled printer called the TouchSmart. With a touchscreen control panel that has the look and feel of an iPhone, the TouchSmart will offer apps that make it easy for one-touch printing. HP has already teamed up with companies like Fandango (movie-ticket printing), Google (maps, calendar printing, etc.), USA Today (news article Read more