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."
SAN FRANCISCO - Saying it went too far in its pursuit of profit, Internet hangout Facebook Inc. is allowing its 55 million users to permanently turn off a new marketing tool that tracks their activities at other websites.
Dell Inc <DELL.O> said on Thursday it plans to sell its personal computers at gadget outlet Best Buy Inc <BBY.N>, its latest push into retail stores after decades selling only via the telephone or Internet.
Many parents wish their kids would spend less time at the computer playing games and messaging, and concentrate more on homework, sports or family activities.
Fidelity Investments yesterday said it hired a Citigroup Inc. executive to oversee technology and real estate operations, its latest acquisition of outside talent.
Netflix Inc. , the largest US mail-order movie-rental service, may suufer a cut in profit if the US Postal Service starts charging extra to manually sort the envelopes that carry its DVDs, a Citigroup Inc. analyst said.
TOKYO - Yahoo Japan Corp. and eBay Inc. agreed yesterday to team up in online auctions, planning services for next year that will make it easier for consumers to buy things over the Internet from the United States and Japan.
DALLAS - AT&T Inc., the biggest US phone company, plans to leave the pay-phone business after 129 years as more people use wireless handsets to make calls on the go.
Major Internet companies traded higher Thursday, with eBay rising after a Citi Investment Research analyst raised his estimates for the online auctioneer.
Shares of solar cell makers closed mostly lower Thursday, as an analyst predicted that a federal energy bill containing solar subsidies will not become law.
