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.
Forget about $100 laptops. It's a price point nobody's going to hit anytime soon - not even the One Laptop Per Child Foundation in Cambridge, the nonprofit organization that two years ago unveiled its plan to give ultra-cheap computers to poor kids.
Knowing that you can never underestimate people's love for their cats and dogs, NBC Universal and Procter & Gamble have set up a Web portal that looks something like a Yahoo or AOL for pet owners, with a bit of Facebook and MySpace thrown in.
Half of more than 3,000 retail stores that a wireless security company secretly monitored at major shopping areas in the United States and Europe use wireless data systems vulnerable to hacking, the firm said yesterday.
Extending its homeland security business overseas, Waltham defense giant Raytheon Co. yesterday signed a deal worth $1.35 billion over the next 10 years to help the United Kingdom control its borders.
Dycom Industries Inc. , which provides contracting services to telecommunications businesses, said Monday its profits climbed in its fiscal first quarter on higher contract revenue.
German business software company SAP AG said Monday several executives at is TomorrowNow unit, including the chief executive, have resigned and it is considering selling the business.
Networking equipment maker QLogic Corp. said Monday its chief financial officer and senior vice president Tony Massetti has resigned, effective in January.
Internap Network Services Corp., a provider of Internet business services, said Monday David A. Buckel is stepping down as vice president and chief financial officer to pursue interests in the private equity markets.
