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One of the latest trends in notebook computers represents a 180-degree turn from what manufacturers have been trying to do for years, which is to make devices ever smaller. Now, some laptop makers are betting that bigger notebooks will attract a certain segment of the market. And these new behemo...

In a newly released analysis criticizing the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, market research company Gartner Dataquest said a "radical reform" of telecom policy is needed if the rollout of high-speed Internet services, or broadband, is ever to break out of the slow lane. "There's a firest...

While much of the online advertising industry remains in the doldrums, travel advertising on the Internet has picked up, according to a report by market research firm Jupiter Media Metrix. Online travel ads plunged in the second week of September and bottomed out during the first week of October,...

True, the further telecommuting spreads, the closer we come to the demise of an institution that has been sacred since Man first discovered fire-- Happy Hour with the work crowd. But assuming a way can be found to replicate those means of releasing workday tension, telecommuting really might be th...

Here in the season of insane buying, it may be useful to point out that Americans are essentially a giving people. This generosity toward those less fortunate is a consistent national characteristic that the country should be proud of. Of course, where there are significant amounts of money, busine...

We are continually promised that our online buying experiences will be simple, hassle-free, life-affirming, soul-enriching and that indeed, simply by allowing our money to be spent in this new best-of-all-possible worlds, we may achieve a state of ecstasy. If ecstasy can be defined as a state of f...

Waffling on whether or not to support Napster? Maybe the news that Tony Bennett is a Napster man will change your mind -- or at least cause you to start lining up the musicians on both sides of the argument. For Napster: Bennett, Chuck D of Public Enemy, Ice-T, Don Henley, Bruce Springsteen and ...

Maybe we should be worried about the FBI's Carnivore electronic surveillance system, especially if it's true that Carnivore enables the FBI to read and store our e-mail -- that, in effect, the Feds could easily start electronic files on us. Here's the problem: Join the crowd. Most of our electronic...

When you go to the polls on Election Day, please remember that a vote for George W. Bush is a vote for closed Internet access.

The marketing ploy for those new wireless location tracking devices we've heard so much about might go something like this: "Say, Mr. Consumer, let's say you're walking down the street in a strange part of the city and you happen to pass by Ray's Pizzeria, one of many such fine eating establishment...

Too much technology makes you sad, the International Labor Organization (ILO) announced this month.

A Florida appeals court ruled Monday that Internet service providers (ISPs) must reveal the identities of eight people who anonymously posted allegedly defamatory messages in a Web chat room.

The Internet is now in everything from cars and taxis to airports and malls. It's crammed into cell phones and personal digital assistants. The Japanese wear the Net on their wrists, and the Koreans are putting it in refrigerators, washing machines and soon, microwaves. Yawn.

Two new software products for connecting cars to the Internet are expected to help drivers navigate congested roads.

Dell Computer (Nasdaq: DELL), which recalled 400,000 notebooks with defective memory chips earlier this year, on Friday began recalling nearly 27,000 notebook batteries that the company says have the potential to cause fires.

Here's a brief trivia quiz for would-be corporate accountants. How much federal income tax did Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the supreme ruler of the known software universe, and Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), second only to General Electric as the most valuable company in the U.S., pay this past year?

Along with three other members of the public, a German hacker and a vocal American critic of the domain name process have been elected to the board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the group that oversees the domain name system and Net addressing funct...

Under growing pressure from Wall Street and consumers alike, Amazon.com has intensified its efforts to achieve profitability, quietly raising prices on books.

Internet powerhouse Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced a free Internet telephone service Tuesday that will allow users to access e-mail, news and other information from remote locations.

Travelers frustrated with airline delays are increasingly finding ways to stay connected to the Internet, as both airline carriers and automakers are expanding their wireless technologies to customers.