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Like a lot of Americans this weekend I’m enjoying it by the beach where I’ve brought along a summer book. But instead of a paperback, I’m doing my beach reading by listening to it on a new gizmo that bills itself as the world’s first self-playing audiobook.
It’s called the Playaway, an audio player about the […]

Cell phone technology is improving so fast it’s hard to keep track of all the new models that are being released. If you’re ready to upgrade, my NBC-TV piece this week shows four of the hottest new models.
If there’s one thing that these four new devices have in common it’s this: They’re connected…to the Net, […]

First it was an AOL tech caught on tape earlier this week for refusing to let a customer cancel an account.
Now, there’s a YouTube video circulating that supossedly shows a Comcast service technician in the Washington, DC area asleep on a customer’s couch as he waits on the phone for over an hour to talk […]

An Ann Arbor company called Driveaware has come up with a new $297 gizmo that automatically moves the side mirrors on a car to show the blind spots whenever you activate the turn signal.

Experts say outdoor cellphone use in summer storms could make you a target for a lightning strike. The warning is sounded by some Brit doctors - who call the risk a “public health issue.”
They cite a whopping four cases in backing up their warning.

This has been the stuff of Internet chat room complaints for years but there’s a video floating around the Net that documents, with a slideshow and full transcript, just how difficult it can be to cancel an account with AOL.
AOL has issued an apology and announced that the rep is no longer with the company.
The […]

Apple’s MacBook laptops may be getting all the buzz these days for speed and efficiency but at a recent trade show in Japan, there was a Dell laptop so hot it suddenly burst into flames. Really. Here’s the story and a pic. Says it even “exploded.”

My biggest problem with golf is that I keep hooking… and losing golf balls. That's why a new RadarGolf system that uses a tiny radio transmitting chip implanted in the ball is so handy.
Wanna see how well it works?
Click my video below.

It was an inevitable marriage: The merging of the huge scrapbooking craze with online blogging.
That’s the thrust of a site called Scrapblog, which it claims is the Net’s first online scrapbooking service. The site has advanced photo-sharing features, with the capability to add themes, stickers, graphics and blogging.
Visitors do not have to log in or […]

Bill Gates may be stepping down from day-to-day work responsibilities (hey, wouldn’t you if you were worth $50 billion?), but Microsoft’s main target these days remains the new century’s most impactful personal technology device: the iPod.
Microsoft says it is committed to developing a rival music player that will give the Windows platform the same boost […]

Vox is a new blogging tool from the people at Six Apart who gave us Typepad and Movable Type. MacMikeNews calls it a MySpace for grownups, with lots of audio and video uploading tools and some strong social networking capabilities.

Consider this a forewarning word to the wise:
There’s a phony e-mail scam going around (again) that says: “Osama Bin Ladin was found hanged by two CNN journalists early Monday evening. As evidence they took several photos, some of which we have included here. As yet, this information has not hit the headlines due to Bush […]