Technology
Why computer voices are mostly female
To most owners of the new iPhone, the voice-activated feature called Siri is more than a virtual "assistant" who can help schedule appointments, find a good nearby pizza or tell you if it's going to rain.
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Swimmer Michael Phelps dives into video games
The 14-time Olympic Gold medalist, Michael Phelps dives into his first video game, "Michael Phelps: Push the Limit."
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How colleges use, misuse social media
For universities competing to attract top students, it's no longer enough to have a sleek website. Schools are reaching out to engage with applicants on Facebook and Twitter.
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Can Facebook help cut your energy bills?
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BlackBerry fans: RIM is 'chipping away our faith'
The love affair between BlackBerry devotees and their mobile communicators is becoming strained, and some of them made the quarrel very public this week after a service outage.
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Steve Wozniak is first in line for iPhone 4S
A line began to form at the Apple Store here on the eve of the iPhone 4S release, as is often the case around the world during the company's product launches.
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Why video gamers are a great fit at the gym
They've been trained to focus for weeks at a time on a single goal. They know how to clearly identify obstacles and form step-by-step plans to overcome them.
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Why Android, iPhone won't crash like RIM
Here's a little secret BlackBerry doesn't want you to know: It would be technically impossible for all Android phones or iPhones to experience a global four-day outage like the one BlackBerry saw this week, according to mobile communications experts.
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Nokia paying developers to build mobile apps
As Nokia prepares for its next crucial venture into the U.S. and high-end smartphones, the Finnish cell-phone maker is missing a crucial piece: an abundant catalog of applications.
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Selling an old iPhone? Do it now
If you're looking to unload your current iPhone or other smartphone, now's the time. Beating the potentially millions of folks who will be buying a new iPhone and selling their old one could put more money in your pocket.
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Amazon's 'cloud' browser raises privacy concerns
Silk filters everything through Amazon's own cloud-computing servers, a move the company claims will vastly speed up the mobile Web experience -- perhaps doubling the speed at which websites load. But privacy advocates say there may be other consequences.
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Police fighting flash-mob mayhem
This week in Germantown, Maryland, it took less than a minute for a flash mob of smiling teenagers to descend on a 7-Eleven, ransack shelves and make off with hundreds of dollars of stuff.
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Don't play victim to your smartphone
If you're sick of your friend flicking around with his iPhone at dinner, tell him to shut the damn thing off and return to reality.
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San Fran's BART transit system hacked again
A hacker publicly posted Wednesday the home addresses and other information of all 102 police officers with San Francisco's Bay Area Transit system, the second hacking incident against one of its websites since Sunday, a spokesman said.
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