Collecting When shopping for wine, I merely go by price. I reckon a $20-plus Syrah is more likely to gladden the hearts of my dinner guests than a $5 red from Trader Joe's. I'm told there is more to being a connoisseur than using my formula, however. A new digital aid from IntelliScanner can help you reach that next level.
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.
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."
Lawyers are hardly poster children for the environmental movement. They are notorious for printing reams of paper, burning tons of fossil fuels as they travel to courthouses and client meetings, and leaving lights blazing and photocopiers humming while they work nearly round-the-clock.
NEW YORK - Vivendi SA has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Activision Inc. , the maker of Guitar Hero, for $9.8 billion to create the world's largest maker of video games.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Twenty-five years ago, Steven T. Kirsch built a better mouse. Now he believes he has found a way to create a better trap - for spam, not mice - if he has enough time to finish his project.
Broadband video has exploded into a new entertainment channel, creating opportunities for the companies that do the work of storing and streaming hours of content, from professionally produced action flicks to confessional clips shot on Web cameras.
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. confirmed its plans to bid for a prized piece of the airwaves in an upcoming government auction, further underscoring the Internet search leader's determination to shake up the wireless market and plumb more profits from mobile phones.
A senior vice president of Blackbaud Inc., which provides software and services to nonprofit organizations, exercised options for 25,386 shares of common stock under a prearranged trading plan, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Friday.
Kids who earn virtual cash in the popular online world "Club Penguin" can give some of it to charity as part of a program announced Monday by the Web site.
It was after 1 a.m. on a Sunday when college freshman Amanda Phillips arrived at the train station. She was nervous about walking alone in the dark to her dorm at Montclair State University.
