25 Dec 08 -
COULD book lovers finally be willing to switch from paper to pixels? For a decade, consumers mostly ignored electronic book devices, which were often hard to use and offered few popular items to read. But this year, in part because of the...
25 Dec 08 -
A start-up company called Tapulous has turned a simple game for the iPhone into an Internet-age mobile stage for musicians. Tap Tap Revenge, a free game that challenges players to keep up with catchy tunes by tapping in the right spots on...
13 Nov 08 -
STEPHEN Lwendo, a Harvard electrical engineering student that hails from South Africa, attempts to show villagers in rural Tanzania how energy flows to a light from a fuel cell. Many of these efforts involve wind or solar power. But one...
13 Nov 08 -
MAYOR William Floyd pulled up to a parking space, dialed a number into his cell phone and watched as two hours of paid time flashed on the meter in front of his car. And with that, the Atlanta suburb launched one of the nation's first...
6 Nov 08 -
IF THE US election in 2008 has proven anything, it's that whoever has the upper hand in using the Internet to his or her advantage will probably walk away with a victory. More than newspapers, television, phone calls, or to do door to...
30 Oct 08 -
THE Internet is not just changing the way people live but altering the way our brains work with a neuroscientist arguing this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy at the top of the new social order. Gary Small, a...
2 Oct 08 -
THE idea of wirelessly streaming the music collection on the computer to the stereo system usually comes after one (or both) of these realisations: "This album I just downloaded would really sound much better coming through my...
2 Oct 08 -
NOW that Apple has sold 160 million iPods, reshaped the music business and inspired dozens of competitors, maybe it's time to admit it: this music player thing might be more than a fad. Yet in all this time, almost nobody has brought up...
25 Sep 08 -
YOU can spend a lot of money on software to play, edit, and record audio files. Or you can take the time to download the best free audio tools and end up with a tool chest of utilities that compare well to their commercial counterparts....
25 Sep 08 -
FROM his office on the tenth floor of the Chinese Banking Corporation Building on Jalan Douglas, Goodwin could see vast expanses of virgin rain forest that began less than a mile away. The town nestled between the sea and the trees on...
