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Techie-to-Luddite Mail Made Easy

You'd rather do everything electronically, like sending party invitations and "We've moved!" address announcements by E-mail. But your grandparents and other non-techie friends and family still need y...

The 21st Century Way We Call Kids to Dinner

Facebook, the online phenomenon of a social network, has consumed and consolidated the lives of my friends and I. Each morning starts with an Inbox thread of back-and-forth conversation. And now, a g...

If Sales Keep Growing, Will Smartphones be a Necessity?

In the top five most awesomely awkward moments that forced social networking events provide, this has to be up there: Exchanging contact info with a possible parter who doesn't have an email address Y...

Best Product: Dropbox, File Storage/Syncing Simplified

Lookin' for one of the easiest and most robust online file storage programs out there right now? If dragging and dropping is your thing, you might want to check out Dropbox, a new worry-free approach ...

The Most Techie Countries In The World
The US Doesn't Even Crack the Top 10

A detail from the 2008 Global Traffic Map from TeleGeography.Get ready for acronym vomit: ITU's IDI, or the International Telecommunications Union's ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) De...

Dial My Calls: Properly Used or Abused at Holidays?

We can see the need for a service like Dial My Calls. It's a free online application that lets you record a message and automatically dial out and play the message to up to 25 people. A great tool for...

When a Post-It and a Walkie Love Each Other Very Much...

New gadgets come on the market to satisfy a need for their intended audience, right? We got annoying alarm clocks for perpetual snooze'ers who have a hard time getting up in the morning. We also now h...