As we get closer to Friday’s launch of the new Motorola Droid phone by Verizon, there’s some talk in tech circles centered on how the wireless carrier is going to handle access to Microsoft Exchange’s Active Sync feature. Apparently, Verizon…

It’s sort of amazing how quickly the iPhone became a major player in the smartphone market. Less than three years after its introduction, the app-friendly phone now claims some 30 percent of the market, according to a new report by…

I realize that for many iPhone users out there, the thought of switching phones is roughly on par with the idea of changing moms. It’s just not done.

But for those of us who lack that extreme loyalty to a brand,…

The Web is buzzing today with talk about Google’s announcement late yesterday  that it is working on its own operating system, initially targeted at Netbooks. The lightweight operating system - geared toward cloud computing - is expected to hit the…

If you’ve ever had this burning desire to know what everyone’s talking about, Google may have soon be able to help you scratch that itch.

Ars Technica has a story suggesting Google is about to introduce a new search feature  that will…

Really, this is just what I need. Another search engine. This weekend, Microsoft launched its new Bing - essentially a revamped version of its Live Search.

I am such a creature of habit that I find it hard to break away…

So we have a new search engine to play with this week. And I can admit that I’m not really sure what to make of WolframAlpha. The computational/tech-oriented engine just doesn’t look like one that’s going to appeal to the…

Here’s a fun bit of technology that will likely appeal to a lot of people. (I will not, I admit, be among them.) I’m talking about Google’s new Latitude - a cell phone program that lets you and your close associates…

I wonder if there is any individual computer program we use more often than our Web browsers. I know that no other program even comes close when I look at the time I spend with my computers.

For years, I was…

We do love our videos. In October, we watched more than 13.5 billion videos online - a 45 percent increase over the same month a year earlier. This according to Internet research firm comScore.

No surprise, of course, that YouTube is…