350 PAGES markets itself as the “quick and easy website builder” that is “fun and flexible”. They’re also convinced that us “ordinary’ folk can produce a professional-looking website in minutes, if not “seconds!”. ...

EVEN as a twenty-something, I can fully understand the anxieties experienced when new technologies are released that we would like to try for ourselves, but which seem rather complex and difficult to handle. Anything that’s more complicated than a remote control has the potential to put anyone who c...

CELLULAR phones have come a long way since the first call was made on a brick-like phone in April 1983. Today, you can use your ­cellphone to make calls, send messages, access the Internet, send e-mails, listen to music and take photos....

BERLIN — While very other appliance in the home has been redesigned to save power, televisions seem to have escaped the trend. New flat panels have actually evolved into disgraceful electricity gluttons. ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft on Monday unveiled software that lets Twitter, Facebook and other hot Internet services be delivered to low-cost “feature phones” common in developing countries....

NEW ORLEANS — Will Wright, the creator of top-selling videogame The Sims, is eyeing life outside the virtual world....

THE Shweeb uses a monorail system to guide users along a predetermined path, with each pod being powered by the rider. According to the official Shweeb website, to travel in a Shweeb takes only half the energy required to ride a regular bicycle, and only one third the energy of a mountain bike to pe...

WE’VE evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something, someone or some place, we use our five natural senses to perceive information about it. That information helps us make decisions and choose the right actions to take. But arguably the most useful informat...

GOOGLE never fails to impress me. The same can be said for the marketing strategies of the large cellular networks. ...

IF there is to be any war that is sustained longer than the Iraqi war, it will be the war on Microsoft. ...