Even while calling Chicago home, Laura Hawkins Grimes is a country bumpkin. Her scenic rural spread has three dairy farms, two ponds and a log cabin, all skirted by a white picket fence as scarecrows stand sentry over her blackberries. The best part is the 40-year-old sex therapist never has to leave her computer to [...]
Kira Marchenese works in online communications, and so she arrived on a business trip to New York earlier this week equipped with all the gadgets you might expect: personal smartphone, work smartphone, laptop, iPod touch. Problem is, her hotel room didn’t have enough outlets to keep the darned devices charged. “I unplugged the lamp and [...]
Laws banning drivers from using handheld cellphones while behind the wheel don’t help to reduce crashes, a study by the Highway Loss Data Institute has found. The institute, which is affiliated with the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, calculated monthly collision claims in New York, the District of Columbia, Connecticut and California before and after [...]
The more I see devices like the new Apple iPad, the more I come to appreciate Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi spectacular “Minority Report.” It was the first thing I thought of when I saw video of the company’s newest “magical” creation and executives demonstrating its New York Times app. The app seamlessly integrated video content [...]
What is Red Hat up to with its launch this week of the opensource.com Web page? This replaces the “Truth Happens” page which ran articles and videos on open source, intellectual property, transparency and other issues. “Opensource.com is now the place to go to find out about how open source principles are re-shaping business, law, [...]
Before Wednesday, if the rumors were to be believed, Apple was not only on the brink of jettisoning its exclusive U.S. arrangement with AT&T for the iPhone, but that it would also roll out its tablet device with support from multiple carriers. That, of course, didn’t happen. AT&T is still the exclusive carrier for the [...]
Google promoted its Social Search experiment to beta status on Wednesday. Social Search adds information and images from users’ public pages to the results of online searches conducted by members of their social network. Users need a Google profile to get results from Social Search. Social has been added to other Google applications like Google [...]
In case you missed it, seven long years of wrangling have come to an end: 802.11n has now been officially ratified by the IEEE. Super-fast WiFi is here. The 802.11n standard ushers in increased network throughput and range that will change wireless access, services and applications. With this final blessing, any hesitancy that existed within [...]
So. After much fanfare, speculation, leaks and industry prognostications forecasting everything from the demise of Amazon to the wholesale revitalization of the publishing industry, Apple’s tablet-style personal computer has finally been unveiled. The introduction of the iPad has managed to prove some of the more persistent rumors of the past several months correct, though there [...]
It’s a well-known fact that humans love lists, and the media are generally all too happy to oblige. Recently, however, mixed in among the many “Top 10″ lists and “10 Ways to …” articles out there was one that seemed worthy of attention. “10 Characteristics of a Linux Guru?” was the title of the post, [...]