It's taking time to 'grow' green PCs
PC manufacturers are working hard to sound PC about green computers, and some are taking it seriously, saying they’re doing everything they can to minimize the negative effects their practices and products have on the environment.
Latest and greatest in inexpensive tech
From handy, cheap cameras to easy-to-use entertainment libraries, eBay gadget and toy director Cat Schwartz presents the best technology has to offer (on a budget).
1,600-year-old version of Bible goes online
More than 1,600 years after it was written in Greek, one of the oldest copies of the Bible will become globally accessible online for the first time this week.
Black market iPhones big in Russia, China
In the Soviet days, Russians asked their American friends to bring blue jeans, rock records and other Western goods into the country. Today Russians can buy almost anything they want here — but they are still begging for one item: Apple Inc.'s slick iPhone.
Survey: Consumers steered to costlier TVsLCD or plasma? If you've been shopping for a flat-panel TV, that's the big question. According to a mystery-shopper survey, electronics salespeople don't know much about the differences, but still have a ready answer: LCD.
The market for skinny laptops gets fat
Ultra-mobile notebooks represent a small, but growing, segment of the PC market finding favor with American consumers, as well as those in countries like China, India and Japan.
Latest Mitch Albom treatise is online only
Mitch Albom has a new book out — well, not really a book, but a commencement speech in book form. And not in traditional book form, but as an e-book, published exclusively through Amazon.com's Kindle reader.
Lighter laptops move to flash-based drives
If you want it all, and you want it small, then you're going to have to pay a great deal more than $500.
Review: iPhone outdoes Instinct
Review: Between the iPhone and the Instinct, the iPhone wins because it’s relatively simple to use and because of the vivid visual experience and multi-touch screen it offers, which makes it a pleasure to maneuver around the screen.
Software for new iPhone benefits current owners
You won’t have to buy a new iPhone to get a new iPhone. Millions of current iPhone owners can download the phone’s free 2.0 software Friday that will let them use Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, as well as access Apple’s new App Store, which "opened" Thursday.
No time for mistakes for Omega at Olympics
When Omega first kept time at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, it had one technician and 30 stopwatches. When Omega takes on the job again in Beijing in August, it will be using 175 kms (109 miles) of cables and optical fibre and 420 tonnes of equipment including transponders in shoes and GPS systems to time the 302 competitions.
World's oldest blogger signs off at age 108
An Australian woman renowned as the world's oldest blogger has died at the age of 108, with her last posting talking about her ailing health but also how she still sings a happy song every day.
Tech takes its place in the garden
Whether you're a weekend or a year-round gardener, there are gadgets and tech tools to help you get your garden in shape.
Just how many 'brains' does one PC need?Just how many "brains" does your personal computer need, anyway? Not that buying a PC was ever as easy as, say, buying a toaster or an electric toothbrush, but the companies that make the electronic brains, or microprocessors, for PCs today have managed to make it even more complicated.