Technology

As I spent the long weekend fixing various infected PCs, I lost count of the number of times I used a write- protected 16-gig thumb drive on which I have loaded a ton of amazing utilities.

Mobile payments is one of the hotter trends in technology this year. Companies like Square have been disrupting the traditional credit card model by making it easy for anyone to accept credit card payments with just their iOS or Android ...

We knew it had to happen eventually. The first known case of malware for Mac OS X has been spotted in the wild.

The mailbox is bulging with reader mail. Let's get right to it.

Everyone loves free. Free samples at the grocery. Free kids meals. Free parking.

Last month's massive hack on the Sony PlayStation Network has given the online gaming world a wake-up call as, weeks later, Sony Corp. still is struggling to bring the hugely profitable network back online.

It's been a busy week in the mobile space. Let's try and summarize the big stories.

A new survey of Americans is showing what many computer hobbyists already have assumed: the arrival of the tablet PC is sending huge ripples across the electronics landscape.

It's pretty rare when a product is considered revolutionary, especially the relatively lowly scanner. But the folks at The Neat Company have found a prime target, namely that giant stack of paper on your desk, dining room table or office. ...

The tablet wars are heating up as every player tries to grab as much of the market as they can. Right now Apple has an overwhelming majority of the pie with their year lead, but that hasn't deterred the likes ...

A particularly nasty and persistent virus is making its way around the Windows computing world these days.

There has been a lot of misinformation in the news over the past week about a location database on your iPhone. Let me try to clear up the confusion for iPhone users and give a bit of background for other ...

Many of the area's media as well as avid weather watchers have turned to the popular social networking website Twitter to get just that. There's also a special category, known as a hashtag, tristatewx for updates on the region's weather.

If you're worried about privacy, you can turn off the function on your smartphone that tracks where you go. But that means giving up the services that probably made you want a smartphone in the first place. After all, how ...

If there is one key difference between Microsoft and Apple, it is secrecy.