There is a cheat sheet in the top left drawer of my desk. It proves what a doddering, clueless croak I’ve become at age 61.
I assembled this guide out of necessity. It’s the only way I can decipher some of the e-mail I receive from readers.
Frankly, I should count my blessings because e-mail communication is [...]

July 1, 2008 2:43 PM PDT
The rising cost of texting
Posted by Marguerite Reardon Post a commentIf you thought gas prices were rising too quickly, check out what’s been happening to text messaging.
Since 2005, rates to send and receive text messages on all four major carrier networks have doubled from 10 cents to 20 cents per [...]

Calvin Leung
From the July 21, 2008 issue of Canadian Business magazine
“Oh crap,” thought James Gosling. The Sun Microsystems vice-president was walking down a dark alley in a seedy part of Paris, and a shady-looking man was on his tail. Gosling headed for a street lamp. Once there, he turned and saw his pursuer approach. “Oh, [...]

“In the runup to Apple’s WWDC 2008, Chris Tompkins thinks that the iPhone’s gaming potential ‘might finally put the lackluster Java-based cell phone gaming market to death.’ He cites the iPhone’s use of Core Animation adapted for ARM processors, which he says allows for the advanced effects of OS X and now OpenGL-accelerated 3D games, [...]

A few weeks ago I told you about the perpetuation of print newspapers here in Spain, and in that post I mentioned the fact that you don’t see a whole lot of laptops being used on the streets of Barcelona or Madrid. One might think that this is an indication of a lack of love [...]

Can it unlock a car, win a bet or cut short a date? Here’s the inside line.
By BUZZ MCCLAIN, F ort Worth Star-Telegram
Last update: June 2, 2008 - 9:14 PM
My 13-year-old daughter ran into the dining room in an excited state. “Watch what my cell phone can do.”
She dashed to the entertainment center and [...]

By Marin Perez
InformationWeek
June 27, 2008 02:57 PM
Three of the new phones have exchangeable front and back colors, and all the phones feature a stylish design, bold colors, and multimedia options. The new phones have exchangeable front and back colors, and all the phones feature a stylish design, bold colors, and multimedia options.
Nokia (NYSE: [...]

Lou Dolinar
June 8, 2008
A few months back, there was a flurry of interest in a widely circulated e-mail that suggested a half-dozen unusual tricks for cell phones, offering, for example, a universal emergency phone number (non-working, as it turned out) and an utterly bogus technique for unlocking your car door by having someone phone you [...]

NBC Universal on Monday announced the promotion of Vivi Zigler to president of NBC Universal Digital Entertainment.
In her new post, Zigler will oversee all NBC Universal entertainment sites, and will continue to head the NBC Universal Digital Studio and NBC Digital Entertainment, including NBC.com.
Zigler is highly valued within the company for her “extensive [...]

Let us take our time and pray for George Carlin, he has sadly died leaving his wife Sally Wade and daughter Kelly Carlin McCall behind, he was such a funny man it is unreal. To tell you the truth I have never heard of him and started to watch some videos of him on stage [...]