Software

Google's new mobile phone, the G1, allows you to do more than make phone calls and check your email. A Dallas-based company has developed software for the phone that could revolutionize your shopping experience. The free software application, called...

In the old days the father's tasks as technology manager of the household were pretty undemanding: change the lightbulbs, tighten the faucets and assemble the Christmas bicycles. The computer age has changed all that. Today the same dads who used to...

Here are several milestones in the Securities and Exchange Commission's yearlong investigation of the media giant: - July 24, 2002: AOL Time Warner Inc. discloses that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating possible improper...

As PC gamers across the country salivate at the release of id Software's much-anticipated "Doom 3," computer retailers are rubbing their hands over the anticipated swarm of shoppers who must buy machine upgrades to even play the game. After juicing up...

Second in a series TALLADEGA, Ala. -- Graham Elementary School has no shortage of problems, so it might seem surprising that when it was awarded a $100,000-per-year federal grant earlier this year for "comprehensive school reform," the school used most...

The questionable use of price guides by insurance adjusters after Tropical Storm Isabel may be to blame for many of the low settlement offers reported by homeowners seeking to repair damaged houses from Maryland to North Carolina, insurance and...

Do a little bit of early trick-or-treating -- without the kids, bag-snatchers, flashlights, costumes, and cold weather -- on the Internet. There are plenty of free sample Web sites out there just waiting to send you a plastic pumpkin-full of everything...

Green Building Resource Center: www.globalgreen.org Murky over the whole "going green" concept? Take a virtual trip to this Santa Monica center, which bills itself as a resource for anyone interested in "innovative and environmentally conscious design,"...

Lacking good research about education software, school districts often do their own evaluations. But their trials are easily influenced by software vendors -- or by administrators already inclined toward buying the product. A test of Plato Learning...

When Glenn Sekins arrived on Sept. 12 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center--a staging area for rescue operations after the attacks on the World Trade Center--he took a black magic marker and drew a crude map of the streets and buildings at the...

Earlier this year, two salespeople drove deep into the coal country of southern West Virginia on an improbable mission: selling expensive education software in one of the poorest corners of America. Logan County does not look like promising sales...

Recruiting a network of software innovators to make cell phones do new tricks is the goal of MotoCoder, a new initiative launched Tuesday in Shanghai by Motorola Inc. While the No. 2 wireless phone-maker will continue to develop new phone features in-...