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At the Leader Dogs for the Blind headquarters in Rochester, MI, technology is about to become a major player in helping those who can’t see get around, allowing them to tap into sophisticated mapping and navigation techniques that tells them where they are or how to get where they want to go. GPS devices […]

I wrote a couple of months ago about my decision to try the SunRocket VoIP phone service. With a pre-pay deal that works out to less than $17 a month I figured it was worth the try.
I’ve since been getting e-mail every day from people who want to know my experience.
Alas, it’s not nearly as […]

The credit card numbers of 40 million Americans have been hacked. The number is staggering.
But what’s worse is that it happened late last year and is only now being confirmed. There’s no evidence of fraudulent charges from the electronic break in.
Yet.
It apparently involved the secret implantation of zombie code on the computers used by a […]

Oh great. Just as I get ready to head out to the Silicon Valley for a week of reporting on various high tech outfits, California seems to be bracing for the Big One after a cluster of quakes in recent days.
Californians rattled by week of quakes.

This week’s edition of Inside Personal Technology- The Podcast is now up and online.
It’s the work of Knight-Ridder newspapers technology columnists Mike Langberg of the San Jose Mercury News, Julio Ojeda-Zapata of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and me, Mike Wendland of the Detroit Free Press.
Click HERE to listen or download. Among other things, in […]

The folks at the Pew Internet & American Life Project have found that some eight percent of adult American Internet users say they participate in sports fantasy leagues online. That represents roughly 11 million people. And on a typical day, about 2 million internet users are going online to oversee and check on their fantasy […]

Nearly one-fifth of Web users who read newspapers now prefer online to offline editions, according to a new study from Internet audience measurement company Nielsen//NetRatings.
This is shaking the newspaper industry to its core.
Do the math, follow the trends and make the projections and, as it is now headed, the current means of producing newspapers on […]

According to the consumer technology research outfit The Diffusion Group, demand for podcasts is expected to grow from less than 15 percent of portable digital music player owners today to 75 percent by 2010. That equates to a predicted audience of 60 million.
Click the graph to see how fast this is growing.

Looks like the rest of the computer world is getting the Mac message and seeing the potential. This is a pretty significant development, the first time a major PC player has publically welcomed the idea of doing with Mac software what they do with Windows. Dell Says He’d Sell Apple’s Mac OS

Thanks to reader Mike Maurer for forwarding me this e-mail chain link. This one is worth passing on. Trust me, you’ll like it.

Here’s a handy advanced guide to searching with Google you may way to keep as a bookmark. Think of it as a quick cheat sheet. Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators

A Nokia geek is predicting that we’ll see 14Mbps broadband speeds on our mobile phones by next year.
I’m skeptical. If we do, at what cost? $500 a month?
Still… it would be nice.
2006: Mobiles will beat PCs for broadband speed