October 22, 2015 Ford ditches Microsoft for its in-car software On Thursday the auto giant announced that it is dumping one of the world's biggest software players, Microsoft, aiming its next in-dash systems at consumers more addicted to smartphones than PCs.
October 22, 2015 4 Gifts to end high-tech family strife It may be the season to share, but it's not always that way at home. Sharing some high-tech devices just causes too much consternation and quarreling. So to terminate the digital family feuds, here are some tech gifts to keep everyone in a cheerful mood.
October 22, 2015 Net Neutrality deadline, one more time Now's your chance to crash a government website by merely stating your opinion, again.
October 22, 2015 The best gear to keep your gadgets dry With storms kicking across the Northeast and the first hurricane already having tapped the Carolinas, it’s critically important to keep your gadgets and gear dry as you travel this summer.
October 22, 2015 Waving goodbye to gestures Gesture recognition was supposed to be the way we would all interact with computers someday. But things aren't looking too bright for the futuristic interface, with two significant products recently waving goodbye to the technology.
October 22, 2015 Audi adds live parking information to cars with Connect service Driving can be fun, but parking is decidedly not. The hunt for a space, the frustration of squeezing into spot when you do find one, a new ding in your car when you return. Those aggravations could be a thing of the past -- if the latest connected car technologies work out.
October 22, 2015 Can the new Xbox One save gaming? For years -- and I mean years -- consumer electronics and computer companies have been struggling to replace the panoply of boxes hanging off American televisions. Game consoles, DVD players, cable boxes, DVRs -- it's a mess. Can the Xbox One fix all that?
October 22, 2015 In tweets we trust ... or not. Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel debate tech industry Will technology save us and save the economy or is it just spinning its wheels and contributing to stagnant wages and intellectual torpor?
October 22, 2015 The day the muzak (didn't) die With the digital revolution, the drumbeat of failing music-related businesses has been a constant rhythm for several years now. So when it was announced last week that the Muzak brand was retiring, it was hardly a surprise. However, it turns out that the Mantovani of music isn't as moribund as many of us thought.
October 21, 2015 Hands-on with the decade-old predecessor to Google Glasses A little over a decade ago, I spent a day wandering around New York City wearing a device just like the newly announced Google Glass Project, secretly reading e-mail while buying a bottle of wine and flipping through files while pretending to listen to a friend's conversation.
