Personal care I have been avoiding the dentist, telling myself my hi-tech toothbrushes are doing the hygienist's job, deleting any evidence of my coffee and cigar consumption.
HANDS-FREE CALLING I always try to get my wife Lisa off the phone when she calls me from the highway on her commute home from Providence. (Rhode Island drivers make their Massachusetts counterparts seem downright cautious on the road.) "It's OK," she always says. "I've got my headphone in."
Wearable displays Myvu's new headset for video iPods makes you feel as if you are sitting in front of a large TV, in a darkened room, rather than staring at a tiny screen in the palm of your hand.
This holiday geek-giving season is proving to be my most challenging one yet. Prices for the best toys are high, and the availability for some of them is iffy.
Here's the deal from H2O Applied Technologies LLC: They find ways to cut energy costs. They make energy-saving improvements. They buy and install new equipment. And they pay for everything.
They may lack the luster of Silicon Valley or Route 128, but Abington, North Andover, and Uxbridge are the most tech-friendly communities in Massachusetts, according to a ranking set to be released today by the Massachusetts High Technology Council.
DARDENNE PRAIRIE, Mo. - For nearly a year, the families who live along Waterford Crystal Drive in this bedroom community northwest of St. Louis have kept the secret about the boy Megan Meier met in September 2006 on the social networking site MySpace.
WASHINGTON - Michael Gaertner worried he could lose his company. The Business Software Alliance had written him to claim his 10-person architectural firm in Galveston, Texas, was using unlicensed software.
LOS GATOS, Calif. - Not a cash register is in sight. The electronics on display are all powered up and ready for use. Personal trainers, specialists, and newly minted concierges in aqua blue shirts make the Apple Store feel part salon, part Internet cafe - just without the espresso.
Shares of SI International Inc., which fell for most of this month, jumped Monday afternoon as investors appeared to decide that the newly lowered price maked a good entry point and long-term prospects for the information-technology services company started looking more enticing.
Office Depot Inc. said sales were "okay" on the Friday after Thanksgiving, and said a "more significant" earnings per share decline is likely in the fourth quarter, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Monday.
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc <TTWO.O> Chairman Strauss Zelnick said on Monday he prefers to run the video game publisher of "Grand Theft Auto" rather than sell it, and sees growth in jobs rather than cuts.
Prosecutors argued Monday that a former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. executive was a key enforcer in an illegal accounting scheme, while her attorney said she was just following instructions when she backdated stock options.
