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.
NEW YORK - After a long weekend of battling crowds at the malls, the last thing most people want to do is go back to the stores after work to do more shopping.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Dubai International Capital, an investment company owned by the ruler of this booming Persian Gulf city-state, has acquired a stake of undisclosed size in the Japanese electronics and media company Sony Corp.
People with severe paralysis could find new opportunities from shopping to doing business or making new friends in the virtual world of Second Life by just thinking about it, if experiments being conducted by a Japanese university bear fruit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Japanese chip makers Toshiba Corp. and NEC Electronics Corp. said on Tuesday they would jointly develop 32-nanometre chips to better keep up with rivals.
General Electric Co <GE.N> unit NBC Universal has reached an agreement with TiVo Inc <TIVO.O> to become the first major broadcaster with the right to use the digital recorder company's research and interactive advertising products, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday in its online edition.
Fast growth in the cellphone industry, the largest consumer electronics sector in the world, is set to continue in the holiday-sales-fuelled fourth quarter, research firm Gartner said on Tuesday.
