Features By Julia Barton
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Snail mail gets interactive
British stamp enthusiasts should be lining up with their smart phones at Royal Mail post offices by now. The nearly 500-year-old Royal Mail is the...
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Want users to tell all??? Have an ugly site.
The scuzzier-looking the site, the more users may reveal about themselves. That's the finding of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. They...
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Listen to my iHeartbeat...
iPhone's all over hearts these days. First, we had the iPhone Heart Monitor app for exercise buffs (sweating optional). Then the news that Apple...
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No more paper OED
The days of the150-lb, 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary are numbered. This week, Oxford University Press announced it's just too expensive to...
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Play tech's Great Game
So we read lots and lots of tech headlines at this show. Facebook's after Foursquare's market; Apple's after Microsoft; Google's after everyone&...
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Spray-on batteries grown by...viruses?
The American Chemical Society just wrapped up its national meeting in Boston, and among the presentations, a lot of interesting work on batteries...
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Mystery Russian shortwave signal comes to life
The blogosphere—well, OK, a select subsection—is abuzz about "The Buzzer," the nickname for a mysterious Russian shortwave signal that...
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E-cigarettes headed to court
A federal appellate court in Washington DC will consider the fate of so-called e-cigarettes next month. E-cigarettes use batteries to turn nicotine...
