home robotics I first met Pleo a year ago, in a hotel bar. She was a stitched-up Raggedy Ann, a toy robot with bad nails and rough skin. But she was smart and sweet. I fell in love.
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."
The venerable slot machine is undergoing a generational shift. For more than a century, since their invention by a German immigrant named Charles Fey in the 1890s, slot machines have required little more than cash, faith, and an ability to pull a lever or push a button.
SOMERVILLE - It is a swift and nimble ride up Cambridge Street, whirring through the tunnel and emerging to make a smooth left into Harvard Square - where traffic has coagulated.
NEW YORK - Yahoo , which already owns one of the most successful financial sites on the Web, is putting the final touches on a new online program for technology investors that is scheduled to begin next month.
Privately-held network security company InfoExpress Inc. said Monday Paris-based telecommunications equipment company Alcatel - Lucent agreed to resell its network access control and firewall products.
Antitrust regulators cleared Macrovision Corp.'s $82 million purchase of entertainment database company All Media Guide Holdings Inc., a government agency said Monday.
Shares of VeriFone Holdings Inc. rose Monday, after a JPMorgan Securities Inc. analyst said shares of the struggling payment processor are near a bottom.
Microsoft Corp <MSFT.O> said on Monday it would be the exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising for the Web site of business television news channel CNBC.
