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Make May Your Official Family Mealtime Month: A How-To Guide

Linda Novick O'Keefe | Posted 04.26.2012

Linda Novick O'Keefe

Your kids will not only benefit from family mealtime -- they'll remember their experiences fondly into adulthood and will pass the tradition on to their children. Here is a four-step guide for parents to bring mealtime back and include their children in the process.

Can an iPad Replace a Laptop? (2012 Edition)

Will Shanklin | Posted 05.26.2012

Will Shanklin

In years past, the consensus was that the iPad is great for content consumption, but it stumbles with content creation. Sure, it was wonderful for browsing the web, tweeting, and playing Angry Birds; but what about for more intensive tasks?

iPad Owners: Beware Of App Store Fraud

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 03.16.2012

For new iPad owners, a word from those who have come before you: Fraud at Apple's App Store, the brand's virtual mall for digital merchandise, is out ...

Risk Management in Introducing High-Technologies Into High-Growth Markets

Sunil Chacko | Posted 04.01.2012

Sunil Chacko

High-growth markets like India face a range of challenges, and thus present vast opportunities, especially for introducing leap-frogging technologies in the area of energy infrastructure.

RIP: The... Pause

Suzan Colón | Posted 02.05.2012

Suzan Colón

Technology was supposed to make our lives easier and even richer in some sense, but today's tech is really about [insert snap of fingers] NOW.

The First Laptop: Corona 3

Caroline Preston | Posted 12.21.2011

Caroline Preston

It was sleekly engineered, came in cool colors, and folded up into a compact square that you could hold with one hand. You could use it on a train or a plane, or in a café in Paris to tap out a novel. The first Mac laptop? No, it was the Corona 3 Portable Typewriter invented in 1912.

Jason Gilbert

No Smoking, No Bathroom, No Pets: 9 Tips And Tricks To Help Your Laptop Live Longer

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Gilbert | Posted 11.30.2011

In our first installment of laptop health tips from the experts, we shared tips and tricks from computer repair shops around New York City on how to h...

Home Burglar Caught After Taking A PIcture Of Himself On Stolen Laptop

Posted 11.22.2011

A Berwyn, Illinois man who allegedly took a photograph of himself on a laptop he stole and then later sold was arrested Wednesday. Dominick Harvey,...

Jason Gilbert

10 Tips To Make Your Laptop Live Longer

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Gilbert | Posted 11.21.2011

Though laptop prices have gone down over time, they are still big investments and can be expensive and frustrating to replace when they die. You want ...

Recognize This Man? Cocky Thief Photographs Himself On Stolen Laptop, Then Sells It

Posted 10.31.2011

A laptop stolen from a Riverside home resurfaced at a Cicero electronics store--along with a hint at the thief's identity saved to the hard drive. ...

Tug Pilot Pleads Guilty In Duck Boat Crash That Killed Two

AP | By KATHY MATHESON | Posted 10.02.2011

PHILADELPHIA -- A tug operator consumed by a family emergency pleaded guilty Monday to involuntary manslaughter for a fatal crash with a duck boat fil...

Young Inventor Creates "Missing Link" to Low Cost Computers

Alexia Parks | Posted 09.13.2011

Alexia Parks

I woke up this morning thinking about WINGStand. Could a single $20 thumb-sized product forever change the way we use computers? Fifty years ago, IB...

Professors Spy On Their Students To See How They Use Their Laptops During Class: Report

Inside Higher Ed | Posted 07.18.2011

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New Eye-Tracking Laptop Leaves The Lab

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — Ever wish your eyes were lasers? A laptop prototype brings that wish closer to reality. It tracks your gaze and figures out where yo...

Lay Off the Laptop

xxxDan Treadwayxxx | Posted 05.25.2011

xxxDan Treadwayxxx

Recently, while taking notes in class, I peered forward and saw the student in front of me playing a game on his MacBook. But something about this game was particularly peculiar.

Astoria Characters: The Two-Time Immigrant

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

Nancy Ruhling

Garo Apanian opens his candy-apple-red laptop. "Let me show you the apartment where I was born," he says. "It's a beautiful building." The image that appears is of Beirut.

How To Turn Your Laptop, Netbook Or Desktop Into An eBook Reader

online-tech-tips.com | Posted 05.25.2011

So maybe Amazon Kindles and iPads are not your thing. However, you do take your laptop with you to school, work, when traveling, etc. If you're lookin...

Inspiring Learners with Technology... and no Electricity (VIDEO)

Ewan McIntosh | Posted 05.25.2011

Ewan McIntosh

In nine years of observing teachers' technology use in the classroom, and seeing what little impact thousands of dollars of technology can have, Moliehe's classroom is a lesson to us all on how to get the most out of what we have.

The Line Between iPhone and iTouch Now Blurred

Gil Laroya | Posted 05.25.2011

Gil Laroya

It was inevitable. With the onset of new developments and capabilities which make the Apple iPhone and iTouch the continuously popular deveices that ...

T-Mobile Releases Additional Information on the G2

Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011

Ramon Nuez

I am excited to see the first smartphones to use high speed packet access (HSPA). My initial experience with T-Mobile's USB Laptop Stick, which also uses HSPA, was rather impressive.

High-Grade Goods: Take Back-to-School Shopping Back to the Earth

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

Avital Binshtock

These pens and mechanical pencils from Paper Mate look and feel like regular plastic but are made of biodegradable sugar-plant parts. Their packaging is plastic-free and 100 percent recyclable.

The Book Of Guys

The New York Review Of Books | Jennifer Schuessler | Posted 05.25.2011

Jennifer Schuessler The New York Review of Books The Ask, Sam Lipsyte, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 296 pp., $25.00 If you've heard anything about Sam...

Schools Must Stop Spying on Students : MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer February 24, 2010

Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Shelly Palmer

As the Comcast-NBCU merger nears approval, Senator Al Franken of Minnesota is calling for Comcast to continue to make NBC programs available for fre...

Green Gifts That Keep Giving

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

Avital Binshtock

Shopping for picky loved ones is difficult enough. Factor in your commitment to eco-sensitive products, and a holiday shopping mission can become as daunting as an unaided ascent up El Cap.

MAPPED: Where Do Computers Come From?

Posted 05.25.2011

*See map below* It's complicated. With steel from Russia and copper from Chile, glass from Korea and lithium from Zimbabwe, the lineup of your laptop...