I'm looking at an edition of Henry James' "An International Episode." It's a library copy containing handsome illustrations interleaved with the text. But it's not a physical book.

I am writing this in OpenOffice 2.0, the recently released version of a software suite that challenges the dominance of Microsoft Office.

Not all that long ago, the Web seemed to be turning into just another television station.

Bookmarks used to be a key part of Web browsing. Before the advent of good search engines, a bookmark let you keep valuable sites in an easily accessible place, and my own bookmark list quickly grew beyond my ability to manage it.

Back in 1979, as Hurricane David slammed into the Dominican Republic, I remember listening to the shortwave radio and wishing there were some way to help.

If I were a software developer looking for openings, I'd put my efforts into instant messaging.

Small devices and high-density storage are converging in spectacular ways. One of Apple's latest iPods carries 60 GB, enough for all your work files and thousands of digital photos and songs as well.

It's been years since I've run into a product as exciting as Google Earth. This mapping program lets you choose your place -- anywhere on the planet -- and look at aerial and satellite photographs, zooming in and out on landscapes and cities as if you

The best technical support is often a mix of company representatives and customers who understand their equipment or software.

It occurred to me the other day as I was editing a document in Microsoft Word that in the entire time I've used Word, there has been only one occasion when I took its grammatical advice.

One of the reasons people want huge hard disks is video. Sure, video clips can be gigantic files, but high-speed Internet connections make them easy to download, and sophisticated software tools make it easier than ever to produce homemade video cont

Watching the big media companies cope with Internet file sharing is a fascinating pursuit.