By Joseph Menn and Chris Nuttall Hewlett-Packard has become the first computer manufacturer to release a tablet running Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, releasing a model aimed at US business users on Friday, more than six…
New Online Learning Center and Community Provide Valuable Step-by-Step Education and Resources for Mastering Home Technology NEW YORK, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon has launched its new Room to Learn social media website (http://roomtolearn.verizon.com) to help customers…
All the big name Consumer Electronics giants like Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, Philips, Vizio, etc. have announced a slew of Plasma and LCD 3D TVs that will be released over the course of 2010. These manufacturers…
By: Wendy Sheehan Donnell Here’s what you need to consider before you take the plunge into the third dimension with a new 3D HDTV. If finding the right HDTV wasn’t hard enough, now you need to decide if…
The Apple iPad cat is officially out of its bag, but it’s not going to be the only tablet game in town. There are a number of other devices out there in various stages from “barely…
Reviewed by Donald Bell The Apple iPad is an unprecedented device. It doesn’t shoot rainbows or make puppies, but this roughly 8×10-inch tablet computer melds your laptop, smartphone, gaming console, and iPod into a single,…
Meditation, prayer, exercise and yoga are all great ways of taking care of yourself and keeping stress levels low. Dr. Jonah Yakel Despite all the wonderful things autumn has to offer, it’s also time to…
By MIGUEL HELFT SAN FRANCISCO — If you want a smartphone powered by Google’s Android software, you could get Motorola’s Droid 2 or its cousin, the Droid X. Then there is the Droid Incredible from HTC, the Fascinate…
By HILARY STOUT THE bedroom door opened and a light went on, signaling an end to nap time. The toddler, tousle-haired and sleepy-eyed, clambered to a wobbly stand in his crib. He smiled, reached out…
1) Economic Turmoil – It’s not the $700 billion bank bailout. And no, it’s not the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The real economic stimulus is … wait for it ……
By BRUCE LAMBERT GARDEN CITY, N.Y., — The eight women visited Long Island this summer along with vacationing families and other business travelers, staying in hotels and motels in commercial strips in middle-class suburbs like…
You’ve managed to keep your business afloat, but how are you managing the stress? By Tiffany Meyers In the economic tailspin of the late 2000s, loss is part of life. Workers are losing their jobs,…
Find out how these 5 families run their companies without starting World War III. By Rich Mintzer Home-based businesses and family-operated businesses each have their own minefields of potential problems, but the one pitfall they…
Use these tips to make the most of your Facebook marketing efforts. By Scott Gerber Facebook may have 500 million users, but having an outpost on the social-media site won’t necessarily increase sales or referrals…
Four tips for those of you who aren’t Web geeks, starting with the basics. By Dan Briody For all of you who aren’t Web geeks, let’s start with some blogging basics — and then talk…
By Rob Pegoraro A tiny $99 box can connect your TV to a wealth of Internet-delivered TV shows, movies, pictures, podcasts and music. But which $99 box should you get? In one corner, there’s Apple’s…
by Kent German Choosing a cell phone carrier isn’t easy. Should your choice come down to network coverage, or should you decide based on the selection of phones? Or perhaps the level of customer service…
By: Chloe Albanesius Is a third-party case scratching up or even cracking your iPhone 4? Tech blog gdgt reported Thursday that some slide-on, third-party cases can cause scratches or cracking on the iPhone 4, so…
By FRANK RICH “THE Social Network,” you’re understandably sick of hearing, is a brilliant movie about the Harvard upstart Mark Zuckerberg and the messy birth of his fabulous start-up, Facebook, circa 2004. From the noisy…
By ADAM BRYANT This interview with Paul Maritz, , president and C.E.O. of the software firm VMware, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What are some important leadership lessons for you? A. I’ve…
By KIRK JOHNSON DENVER — It has been one of the great murder mysteries of the garden: what is killing off the honeybees? Since 2006, 20 to 40 percent of the bee colonies in the…
By TANZINA VEGA Worries over Internet privacy have spurred lawsuits, conspiracy theories and consumer anxiety as marketers and others invent new ways to track computer users on the Internet. But the alarmists have not seen…
By JOHN MARKOFF MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Anyone driving the twists of Highway 1 between San Francisco and Los Angeles recently may have glimpsed a Toyota Prius with a curious funnel-like cylinder on the roof….
By Stephanie Goldberg (CNN) — Upon his release from prison in the new “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” corporate raider Gordon Gekko reclaims his belongings: A gold watch and a mobile phone the size of…
Founded in 1998, Google runs the world’s most popular Internet search engine. It’s a position that has earned Google huge profits and given it outsize influence over the online world. But Google’s ambition far exceeds…
By WILLIAM YONG TEHRAN — Iran has arrested an unspecified number of “nuclear spies” in connection with a damaging worm that has infected computers in its nuclear program, the intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, said Saturday….
By JAMES GLANZ and ALAN SCHWARZ In the endless quest for athletic advantage, a handful of major league baseball teams are engaged in an elaborate, largely clandestine race to master an advanced imaging technology that…
By MALCOLM GAY NASHVILLE — Happy-hour beers were going for $5 at Past Perfect, a cavernous bar just off this city’s strip of honky-tonk restaurants and tourist shops when Adam Ringenberg walked in with a…
by Lisa Irby Getting listed in Google and the other popular search engines is one of the most effective ways of directing free, targeted traffic to your website. Below you’ll discover what the search engines…
By BRAD STONE SAN FRANCISCO — Owners of the Nintendo Wii can finally stop waving their video game controllers in the air and sink back onto the couch. Nintendo is bringing Netflix’s online streaming video…
If you don’t have any problems, Brighthouse can be great. But then, companies you really want to do business with prove that to you WHEN THERE IS A PROBLEM. 9/1/2010 – This company has gotten…
If you’ve been informed that your Internet service has been suspended by the security department, it’s most likely that a computer virus has compromised your computer. Although the security department sometimes suspends the Internet service…
ORLANDO, Fla. — Bright House Networks customers are getting increasingly angry over Internet connection problems that apparently have been plaguing all of Central Florida. Most of the customers reporting the problems to Eyewitness News first…
It’s late in spring or summer, and love is in the air — in your garden, porch, on the windshield of your car. Love is everywhere. It’s the kind of love that drives people insane:…
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS In an experiment published last month, researchers recruited schoolchildren, ages 9 and 10, who lived near the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois and asked them to run on a treadmill….
By CATHY HORYN Published: September 17, 2010 Fashion writers and professionals have been complaining about the motley nature of the shows since the mid-1970s, when designers moved their presentations to hotel ballrooms and, through the…
By CHARLES McGRATH Published: August 21, 2010 What on earth is wrong with Tiger Woods? It’s true he played a little better at the P.G.A. Championship, where he at least made the cut and finished…
By JENNA WORTHAM Published: September 12, 2010 Now, even on the Internet, it is not what you know but who you know. After a decade when search engines ruled supreme — tapping billions of Web…
By MATT GROSS Published: September 15, 2010 SOMETIME back in 2000, Allen S. Rout, a systems programmer from Gainesville, Fla., posted a few photos of his 5-month-old son, Stephen, on his personal Web site. They…
By TODD WASSERMAN Published: September 18, 2010 AMY VERNON still recalls the first time, two years ago, when a story she posted on the social news site Digg became popular. She had promoted a blog…
Google User Experience Our aspirations The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable. Achieving a harmonious balance of these ten principles…
SEO is an acronym for “search engine optimization” or “search engine optimizer.” Deciding to hire an SEO is a big decision that can potentially improve your site and save time, but you can also risk…
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Published: September 11, 2010 It used to be that designers showed clothes at Fashion Week to court the influential few, mainly the buyers and fashion editors who determined what styles would be…
By ANNE RAVER Published: September 8, 2010 THE garden suffered through another heat wave last week: day after day in the high 90s and no rain. (Didn’t I say that a few weeks ago?) Hurricane…
By SETH SCHIESEL Published: September 12, 2010 The highest compliment I can pay Halo: Reach, set for release Tuesday for the Xbox 360, is to say that as soon as I finished it, I wanted…
By KEN BELSON Published: September 10, 2010 FOR all the reasons it may make sense to rent a car — a carless household facing a gaggle of errands, a temporary need for a second vehicle,…
By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY Published: September 11, 2010 This is the era of the screen — touch, wide, flat, etc. — and tennis is not even close to immune. The players’ lounge at the United States…
By BENEDICT CAREY Published: September 6, 2010 Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all…
By TANZINA VEGA September 9, 2010 Google is rolling out a new advertising campaign on Thursday for its display advertising platform. The campaign, called Watch This Space, will run in advertising trade magazines and in other…
By NICK BILTON September 12, 2010 If you plan to log into your Facebook account and announce to the world that you’re heading to the beach for the weekend, you might want to append the status…
