Month: January 2008

The case of Megan Meier screams out for justice. But to be truly served, justice must be based on a rationality, not just revenge and emotion. It was disclosed in November that the 14-year-old Missouri […]

At the risk of oversimplifying things, it seems to me that there are three basic types of digital cameras: little ones, big ones and ones in the middle. By little I of course mean all […]

I spent part of last week trapped in the “Steve Jobs Reality-Distortion Field.” Well-known among Apple watchers, the phrase was first uttered 26 years ago, according to Andy Hertzfield. On Folklore.org, he credits Bud Tribble, […]

Until the mid-’90s, if you wanted to print something in color, you had to use an ink jet printer. Laser was for black and white only. Then in 1994, CMS came out with a color […]

It’s far too early to declare the computer hard drive obsolete. But thanks to the tech industry’s ability to trim the size of flash memory chips, it is now possible to make full-feature laptops that […]

The 2008 Consumer Electronics Show is in the history books and, sadly, I was one of the last to leave the hall after they dimmed the lights as a hint that it was time to […]

CBSNews.com: Print This Story One of the trends I’m observing at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show is the industry’s transformation from geek to chic. It appears that lots of companies are taking a page from […]