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."
Technology and entertainment topped Google Inc's <GOOG.O> searches in 2007, with the iPhone grabbing the No. 1 slot on a list of the fastest-rising search terms in the United States, the company said on Tuesday.
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.
MySpace, the social networking site where people create home pages and embellish them as they would a dormitory room, plans today to start selling songs and trying to position itself as a destination for hearing and buying new music.
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.
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.
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.
Taiwan's stock market rose to a two-week high Wednesday as gains in memory chip makers offset the market's early loss following Wall Street overnight decline.
Cisco Systems Inc. has snapped up Motorola Inc.'s former chief technology officer, adding valuable experience in mobile communications to the ranks of the world's largest Internet networking supplier.
Yahoo Inc. is touching up its popular online photo-sharing service, Flickr, with free editing tools aimed at the growing number of shutterbugs who want to doctor their digital pictures.
