From giant cell phones to old motherboards, outdated technology holds sentimental value for collectors like Jason Savitt. Meanwhile video artist James Houston rigged vintage dot matrix printers to play a song by Radiohead.
Why do we still have to sign credit card receipts? That's our one-question interview today, and Bob Sullivan of MSNBC.com's <em>Red Tape Chronicles</em> blog has the answer.
Amazon's electronic reader, Kindle, is starting to replace paperbacks, but people question how well the device holds up to surf and sand. Can summer reading be done on the device? Lynn Neary finds out.
A judge ordered YouTube to hand over the log-on names and the Internet addresses of its users to media giant Viacom. The matter is stirring up major privacy concerns.
A court has ordered Google to turn over a database that links users to every video they've watched on the popular Web site YouTube. Jennifer Urban, director of the University of Southern California Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, says the ruling has big implications for online privacy.
Twitter.com has so many new users that the Web site keeps crashing. Meanwhile, Twitter engineers are taking popular features away for retooling. It's a painful process, but co-founder Biz Stone has a plan.
Hundreds of millions of people in China have cell phones, and with no voice mail, many turn to text messaging to make sure their messages get conveyed. Texting remains one of the few outlets for free speech in a country notorious for its censorship practices.
When protesters in southern Morocco clashed with security forces, there was very little coverage from state-run television stations. But amateur video posted on YouTube showed what the official media would not. Young Moroccans say the Web is leaving traditional media behind.
California and Washington join the long list of states to ban handheld cell phone use while driving. It's the conversation, not the phone, that's distracting, research says. Do these laws really make our roads safer?
The time may soon come for <em>American Idol</em> to spring off the screen at you. Unfortunately, right now 3-D TV is only available in Japan, where cable channels broadcast 3-D programs several times a day. But viewers need a special television and glasses.
