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.
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.
Here's a first: Bug-size robots have been used to coax cockroaches into unnatural acts. Research reported yesterday in the journal Science described how a team of European scientists placed tiny robots in a colony of laboratory cockroaches. Using behavioral modification methods, the whirring, partly-disguised faux insects were able to induce the real creepy-crawlies to follow their lead in seeking shelter ...
Standing next to Jenny Lake, park ranger Diane McGee tells students about the plants and animals at Grand Teton National Park. "Very soon, we will have snow falling on the ground," she says. "Winters here are very long. We get up to 200 inches of snow here on the valley floor."
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.
SAN FRANCISCO - European Union regulators started an in-depth investigation into Google Inc.'s plan to buy DoubleClick Inc. , saying the purchase may hurt competition for online advertising dollars.
ADELAIDE, Australia - News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said yesterday he intends to make access to The Wall Street Journal's website free, dropping subscription fees in exchange for anticipated ad revenue.
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. agreed to provide legal and financial support to the families of two jailed Chinese dissidents to settle claims it committed human rights abuses when it gave China information that led to the men's arrests.
The dream of a laptop computer cheap enough to distribute to millions of poor children is finally coming true - but not quite in the way its backers imagined.
South Koreans take great pride in Samsung, known worldwide for sleek flat-screen TVs, high-tech mobile phones, hulking container ships and major construction projects.
Google Inc <GOOG.O> is gearing up to make a serious run at buying wireless spectrum in a Federal Communications Commission auction in January, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday in its online edition.
GPS tracking devices installed on government-issue vehicles are helping communities around the country reduce waste and abuse, in part by catching employees shopping, working out at the gym or otherwise loafing while on the clock.
