Month: July 2007

Gasoline is expensive but it’s nothing compared to the cost of printer ink. If you do the math, you’ll discover that the liquid ink inside those cartridges you buy for your ink jet printer can […]

Frequent flyer miles are nice, but how about getting those airline tickets wholesale? Often, it can be done, and if cFares.com has its way, it might be done a good deal more often. The company, […]

News has recently surfaced about an unpublished government study that suggests that 85 percent of offenders imprisoned for trafficking in online child pornography may have also sexually molested minors. Thursday, the New York Times reported […]

 THE man in the Verizon Wireless commercials wearing thick-rimmed glasses may be constantly asking, Can you hear me now? But the most commonly asked question over mobile phones might actually be, Where are you now? […]

I’m writing this column on a computer that looks and acts pretty much like most other notebook PCs running Microsoft Windows. It has a typical screen and keyboard, it’s running Microsoft Office and other standard […]

More than a year before he announced the iPhone, Steve Jobs told an audience at the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference, “we’re not very good going through orifices to get to the end […]

by Larry Magid A famous cartoon from the New Yorker shows a dog sitting in front of a computer telling another dog, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” But now, thanks to the […]

My daughter Katherine recently returned from teaching English in Spain for a few months. About two months into her trip, her digital camera was stolen. She replaced the camera, but she can never replace the […]

Dear Mr. Jobs (About That iPhone…) PALO ALTO, Calif., July 3, 2007 Dear Steve,Thanks for letting me try out one of your new iPhones. Not only has it been fun to play with but having […]