Filing and paying your taxes should be as convenient as possible. That’s why the IRS provides you with many helpful tools, including the following featured interactive forms, calculators and tools: Free File Prepare and…
By STUART P. GREEN THE Justice Department is building its case against Megaupload, the hugely popular file-sharing site that was indicted earlier this year on multiple counts of copyright infringement and related crimes. The company’s…
By Jenna Wortham The market for night classes and online instruction in programming and Web construction, as well as for iPhone apps that teach, is booming, reports Jenna Wortham in Wednesday’s New York Times. People…
By DAVID POGUE What’s an ultra book? It’s an absolutely gorgeous, sleek wedge of a laptop, clad in shining brushed metal. There’s no DVD drive. The battery is sealed and nonremovable. The keys protrude through…
By Jon Heyman The Yankees have no real expectation that Joba Chamberlain will pitch again this year, due to his freak ankle injury, despite a couple slightly more encouraging public comments the past couple days….
By BRIAN X. CHEN and JENNA WORTHAM At a cocktail party on the second floor of the expensive Bowery Hotel in Manhattan on Thursday night, as trays of stuffed mushrooms and thinly sliced filet mignon…
BY GWEN MORAN Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo attract hobbyists and wannabes, but they can also net real cash for those who use them strategically. With savvy profiles and targeted campaigns, some aspiring entrepreneurs…
By KATIE THOMAS Debbie Schork, a deli worker at a supermarket in Indiana, had to have her hand amputated after an emergency room nurse injected her with an anti-nausea drug, causing gangrene. She sued the…
Do you want to learn how to build a website for yourself? Just follow these 5 simple steps to learn how to create a website for yourself: 1- Register A Domain Name 2- Host Your…
By BRIAN X. CHEN Still paying 99 cents to download a smartphone game? That’s far too much. More developers are now giving their games away — and then charging for extra features. The strategy is…
By MICHELLE HIGGINS BARGAIN hunters will need to be craftier when booking a trip if they want to get the best prices this year. It’s no secret that airfares are up and added fees for…
By MICHELLE HIGGINS AS thousands of passengers who were caught up in the latest bout of snowstorms along the East Coast can attest, when weather disrupts the system, travelers are basically on their own. Just…
By KIM TINGLEY Setting off in the predawn gloaming of central Alaska, we were the sounds of swishing snow pants, crunching boots and cold puffs of breath. As sunrise gradually lightened the late November sky,…
By MICKEY MEECE If I moved my computer monitor close enough to see the screen clearly, it was nearly in my lap. If I left the monitor where it should be, I had to lean…
By LAWRENCE W. CHEEK MARTHA CHOE’S ideal working space is not her private office, nice though it is, but rather a long, narrow table in the vast atrium of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation…
By DWIGHT GARNER THE case against electronic books has been made, and elegantly, by many people, including Nicholson Baker in The New Yorker a few years ago. Mr. Baker called Amazon’s Kindle, in a memorable…
By DEXTER FORD HOW far can a modern car really go? Given the increasing age of vehicles on American roads, we may be on the verge of finding out. As a stubborn recession made drivers…
By DAVID ALLEN HOW do you think most workers would respond if you asked them, “Do you feel more productive now than you did several years ago?” I doubt that the answer would be a…
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ KEY WEST, Fla. — Ah, Spring Break, with its copious debauchery, its spontaneous bouts of breast-baring, Jager bombing and après-binge vomit. In this era of “Jersey Shore” antics and “Girls Gone Wild,”…
IRS Internal Revenue Service Answers: If you e-file, you can generally expect your refund within 10 – 21 days. The projected refund date “Where’s My Refund?” provides may change as your tax return moves through…
The Internal Revenue Service – An Overview of the I.R.S. The Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S.) is the agency that collects tax revenue for the United States federal government. Here’s an overview of how the agency…
By Byron Acohido Cyberthieves are stepping up phone-calling scams that pilfer the accounts of consumers who bank online. And many such calls are linked to Caller ID spoofing, which causes the recipient’s phone to display…
By Charlie Szold AUSTIN, Texas – In the 1840s, speculators panned in rivers to find elusive gold bits that could make them rich overnight. In the 21st century, hardworking entrepreneurs toil over code and user…
By NICK BILTON People love Google Plus. Wait, they hate Google Plus. No, that’s not right, either. Lots of people are using Google Plus. No, it’s a ghost town. Rather than bicker constantly about who…
By EVELYN M. RUSLI and BRIAN X. CHEN In a little over an hour, Ryan Matthew Pierson racked up $437.71 in iTunes charges for virtual currency that he could use to buy guns, nightclubs and…
By DAVID POGUE On Friday, the new iPad goes on sale. Be sure to ask for it by name: the iPad. Because if you ask for the iPad 3, the Apple representatives will look at…
By RONI CARYN RABIN Talk about sleepless nights. Patients taking prescription sleep aids on a regular basis were nearly five times as likely as non-users to die over a period of two and a half…
By JULIE BOSMAN After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books that were once sold door-to-door by a fleet of traveling salesmen and displayed as proud…
By Joanna Stern AUSTIN, Texas — The city of Austin is about to get a whole lot nerdier, at least for the next couple of days. The annual South by Southwest Interactive festival (don’t call…
By NICK BILTON SAN FRANCISCO — Every night, I get home from work, drop onto the couch and sit there surfing the Web or watching videos on my 3 1/2-inch iPhone screen. My big-screen HDTV…
By STEPHANIE STROM Educators are giving YouTube — long dismissed as a storehouse of whimsical, time-wasting and occasionally distasteful videos — another look. As Google, YouTube’s parent company, fine-tunes a portal that lets schools limit…
By BEN SISARIO For a glimpse at the next phase in YouTube’s evolution, look no further than a stray crutch and a $20 birthday cake for Justin Bieber. Those were among the props at a…
Joseph Kony is one of the most vilified rebel leaders on the planet. He stands accused of brainwashing countless children across northern Uganda, turning the girls into sex slaves and the boys into prepubescent killers….
BY GEOFF DUNCAN Google is unifying Android Market as well as its book, music, and movie services under the moniker Google Play. But is it clearer, or more confusing? Internet giant Google raised eyebrows yesterday…
By DAVID POGUE You’re probably paying something like $60 a month for high-speed Internet. I’m paying $5 a month, and my connection is 1,000 times faster. Your iPad can’t play Flash videos on the Web….
By SAM GROBART On Thursday, we asked readers to submit questions for Siri, Apple’s new virtual personal assistant in the iPhone 4S. Below are some of Siri’s most entertaining answers. We threw in some questions…
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Does the idea of buying holiday cards, gathering the mailing addresses for friends and family, writing personal notes by hand, buying stamps, addressing envelopes and carting them to the post office…
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Remember Google Buzz? What about Orkut, or Google Wave? Google has tried several times, without much success, to take on Facebook and master social networking. Now it is making its biggest…
Remember Google Buzz? What about Orkut, or Google Wave? Google has tried several times, without much success, to take on Facebook and master social networking. Now it is making its biggest effort yet. On Tuesday,…
As we put rubber to road on our Motorola Xoom review, it’s important to note that it was only a matter of time before the Android army delivered a proper iPad competitor. Moto’s partnership with…
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: December 1, 2010 A few weeks ago, I compiled a list of essential iPhone apps for people who are too busy to sift through the roughly 300,000 titles in the App…
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: November 10, 2010 I’m always surprised when I come across people who have yet to fill their iPhone with apps. The most often cited excuse? Not enough time to sift through…
By ANNE EISENBERG Published: January 15, 2011 HEADSETS are staples for call-center workers, travel agents and many other people who have to talk frequently on the phone. With a headset to listen and speak through,…
By JOE NOCERA January 14, 2011 With this week’s announcement that Verizon Wireless is going to begin selling the iPhone — something its customers have been panting for ever since AT&T got that first, exclusive…
By BOB TEDESCHI I’m always surprised when I come across people who have yet to fill their iPhone with apps. The most often cited excuse? Not enough time to sift through 300,000 apps to find…
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…
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…
Verizon brings the iPhone 4 to market at a time when AT&T already has the iPhone 4 on the market. It’s good news for those Verizon customers who have always had interest in the iPhone…
