Spam is a lot more than a mere annoyance. Manually reading and deleting these unsolicited offers for pharmaceutical products or bank loans can seriously eat away at your productivity. If the spam you receive contains a phishing attempt, spyware or virus, it has the potential to wreak havoc. If you thought spam on the PC [...]

Many a man — and woman — have spent more time in the master bathroom than in the kitchen. That’s why the latest market for computerized home gadgetry is a dream come true. What was once a simple bathroom can now be transformed into a high-tech oasis with a shower that remembers your preferred water [...]

Jim Lipsit’s wife, Cindy, knows exactly when her husband’s car pulls into the driveway — even if she’s still at work — because the house sends her a text message. And that’s not all. The Lipsits’ 2,500-square-foot home in Lake Worth, Fla., also turns off lights when people leave the room, automatically shuts off the [...]

Congratulations on that iPhone! Your cumbersome travelpak of cell phone, PDA, laptop and portable margarita blender is a thing of the past. (OK, so the iPhone can’t make margaritas. Yet.) The buy was easy. Everyone wants the hot new thing, which remains the hot new thing until the very moment you walk out of the [...]

Using technology makes filling in and shipping out your tax forms easier. Now, your use of gadgets can help you even more by reducing the amount of tax dollars you owe. Computers, iPhones, GPS devices, and other gadgets may be tax deductible if you use them for work. Congress recently added recession-era provisions to the [...]

Less than ten years ago, GPS devices were slow and sometimes inaccurate. And even when they were accurate, their interfaces were often impossible to, well, navigate. They had a nice following among geo-caching geeks, but for the rest of us? Forget it. These days, even the most technologically impaired motorists swear by the GPS navigators [...]

You love the convenience of having information at your fingertips, whether it’s via your smartphone, laptop, or the USB stick hanging off your keychain. But that convenience also carries risks. Among the biggest threats facing business travelers today is the loss of data through portable devices. And it could mean huge losses for your company. [...]

OK. Admit it. You still like to play with toys. High-tech companies such as Google and Microsoft have encouraged playful creativity by turning their workplaces into virtual playgrounds where employees are encouraged to take play breaks. The legacy of the dot-com boom era includes foosball tables, ping-pong tables, X-box stations where employees can engage in [...]

If there’s one thing that’s crystal clear about big screen high-definition televisions — aside from picture quality — it’s that now is finally the right time to invest in one. Not only has fierce competition forced prices to drop considerably, but these HDTV displays look much better than ones available just two or three years [...]

Pictured: Sony’s 9.9mm thick Bravia Edge KDL-40ZX1. While memory and functionality are all growing exponentially, our laptops, smartphones and digital cameras are becoming the incredible shrinking machines. Thanks to our demands as mobile consumers, technology manufacturers have gotten the message that a gadget can never be too light or too thin. Witness Apple’s MacBook Air, [...]