Microsoft's Rx for health care
You can pay your phone bill online, but you still need a pen and clipboard to fill out forms at a doctor's office. You can check in for a flight on the Internet, but you have to carry around a slip of...
View ArticleNew Giorgio Armani Samsung smartphone
Giorgio Armani and Samsung Electronics have presented the new Giorgio Armani-Samsung smartphone.
View ArticleBeware of highway robbers on Wi-Fi
As the number of Wi-Fi hot spots grows, travelers might want to heed a word of caution from the Wi-Fi Alliance, a nonprofit industry group that promotes Wi-Fi technology: Think security.
View ArticleNew Wi-Fi technology to let gadgets talk directly
(AP) -- Starting in mid-2010, new versions of gadgets like cameras, cell phones and computers will be able to talk to each other using Wi-Fi without needing to connect to a wireless network first.
View ArticleFor music buffs, Zune HD strikes right tune
In the two years I've been reviewing gadgets, I've never tested Microsoft's digital music and video player, called the Zune. The device only accounts for a tiny fraction of the market, and it had...
View ArticleReview: Motorola's Cliq is a snappy smart phone
(AP) -- Imagine how you'd feel if you peaked in middle school. That's pretty much what happened to cell phone maker Motorola Inc., which had a megahit in 2005 with its Razr handset but has since failed...
View ArticleGoogle expands availability of its free voice mail
(AP) -- Google Inc. wants to answer your mobile phone calls when you can't or just don't want to talk.
View ArticleAriz. court rules records law covers 'metadata'
(AP) -- Hidden data embedded in electronic public records must be disclosed under Arizona's public records law, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a case that attracted interest from media and...
View ArticleGoogle Voice 'light' works with existing cell phone numbers
Google Voice, the service that can route calls to multiple phone numbers and access voice mail, is now available on users' existing cell phone numbers.
View ArticleNetflix could gain from loss of Sat. mail delivery
Netflix won't miss Saturday mail delivery, even though the weekend service helped keep the company's DVD-by-mail subscribers happy.
View ArticleReview: Microsoft email better, not revolutionary (Update)
Longtime users of Hotmail, MSN and other Microsoft email services will start noticing a big change: When they sign in to check messages, they'll be sent to a new service called Outlook.com.
View ArticlePirate Bay moves from Sweden to Norway, Spain
Embattled file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is looking for safe havens in Norway and Spain after its Swedish host came under legal pressure to shut it down.
View ArticleE-mail use model appears to follow "Clash of Civilizations" prediction
(Phys.org) —Researchers at Stanford University have built a model based on the frequency of e-mail interactions between groups of users of Yahoo! e-mail throughout the world. In studying their results,...
View ArticleSyria, China worst for online spying, RSF reports
Syria, China, Iran, Bahrain and Vietnam are flagrantly spying online, media watchdog RSF said Tuesday, urging controls on the export of Internet surveillance tools to regimes clamping down on dissent.
View ArticleMicrosoft releases data on government requests (Update)
Microsoft said Thursday it received 75,378 law enforcement requests for data in 2012 in the tech giant's first report on the sensitive subject.
View ArticleUS judge: Man's Facebook claim should be dismissed (Update)
A New York man's multibillion-dollar lawsuit claiming half-ownership of Facebook Inc. should be dismissed, a federal judge recommended Tuesday.
View ArticleHigh-skilled visa requests likely to exceed supply
The U.S. Homeland Security Department expects applications for high-skilled immigration visas to outpace the available supply in a matter of days, one of the fastest runs on the much-sought-after work...
View ArticlePersona Beta 2—identiy bridging solution—released by Mozilla
(Phys.org) —Mozilla has released the second beta of its "Persona" identity bridging solution—offering users the possibility of a single login (e-mail address) and password for all of the sites they...
View ArticleStartup links families with their independent seniors
A new way for families to stay close to independent elders that blends modern technology with old fashioned parcel post debuted on crowd-funding website Kickstarter Tuesday.
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