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This is hilarious. Doing some research on DECT phone safety for an upcoming story I stumbled across this from the Consumer Products Safety Commission:...

May I suggest futurist Ray Kurzweil? Check out some of the thoughts he offered up at the Game Developer’s Conference: As chips are progressively...

On their company blog, Skype noted today that their users have placed 100 billion minutes worth of free Skype-to-Skype calls thus far. Then there’s...

Can the radiation in a DECT cordless phone kill you? That appears to be the upshot of this report out of Europe.  We’ll have...

There will be plenty of post-mortems on the end of the format war, but for now let’s point out what did not happen: broadband-delivered...

I’ve had Found magazine bookmarked since I first surfed across it a few months ago. I’m not sure why it’s compelling to view things...

Coming to a Circuit City near you. Samsung’s SGR-A1. What’s next? Will Samsung be bought out by Skynet? I love the fact that the...

Here is a very instructive story concerning a Best Buy customer that was posted on MSNBC. The woman filing the $54 million suit against...

Verizon is not taking VoIP lying down. First, TWICE sister publication Multichannel News is reporting that Time Warner, Comcast and Bright House Networks have...

There’s too much technology in the car — dangerous technology that can kill drivers, pointed out a front-page article in the New York Times...

After International CES, walking the show floor at PMA is almost a Zen-like experience. Shorter cab lines, no monitors being shut off, all quite...

Everyone seems to agree that consumers need to do a better job of securing their photos. And everyone knows that hoary business cliché that...

Skimming the industry-related figures for 2007 and forecasts for 2008, it looks like another year of growth for the imaging industry — macroeconomic setbacks...

According to a blog posting on the VH1 Best Week Ever site, a San Diego Best Buy created a makeshift display filled with movies...

Co-opting your opponents is how successful politicians ensure their legacy. It’s also how industries can defend themselves against their critics.  The consumer electronics industry...

According to The New York Times, on Tuesday The Federal Trade Commission held its first hearing in a series focused on green marketing and...

I, for one, don’t want to cheer when I read that the music industry continues to founder. Really, I’m not that vindictive. Then I...

Here’s an easy way to spread some New Year’s cheer this year: Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), a non-partisan organization for veterans...

We received this note from Jim Noyd this morning: Don Bouchard, executive VP of sales and marketing at Ultralink/XLO Products, was involved in a...

I hate to disagree with my fellow tech journalist/blogger Stewart Wolpin, but I have no problem understanding why people by the millions are buying...

 The news of sluggish holiday sales has The New Yorker’s James Surowiecki writing about the “steady erosion of a retailers’ power.” It’s worth quoting...

NetZero Voice from United Communications has left the building. In a 2006 report, the research firm Telephia placed them fifth among pure-play VoIP providers...

A software firm called Enoetic has created a program called Photology that can recognize distinct elements within a photo for easier retrieval. I’ve not...

Talk about great moments in customer service. Linksys got into a bit of hot water recently when the “help” line listed in one of...

Car stereo suppliers may want to take note of a new trend cropping up in Queens, N.Y. Teen boys are cobbling together 3,000-watt car...

Google not only understands that green is good, but its potential as a profit generator could dwarf what it is has made on the...

As if the media didn’t have enough to digest from Thanksgiving shopping mania, today they’re all over “Cyber Monday” like gravy on mashed potatoes....

I’m a pretty good gardener and I can usually figure out when my houseplants need water, but for the green-thumbed-challenged among us, there is...

Want to do your bird watching without ever leaving the couch? A firm called Wingscapes has introduced what it calls the BirdCam — a...

The massive increase in interest in all things video online these days has TWICE in the market for CE industry related video. You may...

Google directions will soon be available at the gas pumps, it was announced Nov. 8 by a maker of gas pumps here, called Gilbarco...

So I’m potty shopping at Babies “R” Us last night when I stumble upon … digital cameras, portable GPS systems, iPod speakers and several...