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."
In Silicon Valley's freewheeling start-up world, not a week seems to go by without a crop of companies sprouting up. Meanwhile, Boston - with all the right ingredients for a vibrant tech community - is often bemoaned as the city that just keeps falling further behind.
NEW YORK -Dell Inc., the world's second-biggest maker of personal computers, will sell notebook and desktop PCs through Best Buy Co. , expanding its push into retail to challenge larger rival Hewlett-Packard Co.
At a time when airlines have cut back on meals and just about everything else, US carriers are about to launch a new era that at long last will allow passengers to send e-mails and instant messages and connect to the Web.
Shares of Cintas Corp. posted the largest gain among the stocks on the Nasdaq 100 at midday, following an upgrade from an analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co.
Synopsys Inc. , which makes equipment for chip-making companies, said Friday it expects first quarter 2008 earnings at or above Wall Street expectations, helped by new product lines.
Antitrust regulators have cleared ON Semiconductor Corp.'s $185 million purchase of two product lines and related assets from Analog Devices Inc. , a government agency said Friday.
A left-wing German politician withdrew charges against online encyclopedia Wikipedia on Friday for promoting the use of banned Nazi symbols in Germany.
