Header Content

From my NBC-TV “High Tech Talk” segment this week…
The good thing about the Internet is that you can use it to find out everything about just about anything. The bad news is, people can use it to find out about you. As technology gets better and better, concerns are mounting about protecting our online privacy. […]

The huge success of YouTube has transferred over to the iPod with a Web-based application called YouTube Copy, which lets you download any YouTube Video you want directly to your iPod by typing in the video URL on YouTubeSInce it’s Web-based, that means you can do this through any computer. The system also lets you […]

New gizmos and gadgets are allowing us to do all sorts of things from all sorts of places. So it is with a device contained in a $399 “Executive Kit.” The centerpiece of this kit is a high tech scanner that looks like a magic wand. As I said on my NBC-TV High Tech Talk […]

Ever since the personal computer took off in the 90’s, there’s been a movement to merge it with the world’s most popular entertainment medium – Television. It’s been a slow convergence but as a new gizmo I profile on this week’s NBC-TV High Tech Talk segment called the TV stick is making for a media […]

It just gets worse and worse. Experts now say spam accounts for nearly 70% of all e-mail.By the end of the year, Jupiter Research says the average Internet user will get 3,600 spam messages. I’ve tried just about every spam filter there is. My favorite so far is the latest 3.0 version of a […]

We’ve all gotten used to going to our desktop to get directions and maps. But now, that same convenience can be brought to our mobile phones. Not only that, but as I report in my NBC-TV segment this week, your phone can alert you to traffic tie-ups, locate gas stations and tell you the latest […]

My NBC-TV segment this week looks at Microsoft’s Office 2007, suggesting that the redesign may present a steep learning curve for many. Here’s a link for info on the new features and how they correspond to the old.