Can I hear you say RAMEN?

My friend You Mon Tsang is finally taking the covers off of Boxxet, his third startup since I first met him a decade ago. It looks very promising. Boxxet takes aim at one of the problems I targeted in the livable web manifesto: that the World Wide Web as viewed through Google is just too […]

The Web has outgrown the ability of most people to use it effectively. Trying to find useful information via Google requires search savvy that most people don’t have. Even if you know what you’re looking for, there are problems with spam, advertising, and context (for example, “haiku” gives you resu

Violet Blue: “the city is filthy with user-friendly Mac ass” – hilarious: How to Seduce a Mac Geek / A Macworld Sex Guide

If you ever have arguments with people of the opposite sex, the following may be the most valuable advice you will receive all year. In humans, strong emotion starts with physiological changes in your body, not with an awareness of the emotion in your brain. So when somebody pisses you off, your hea

Apparently babies have five distinguishable cries, each with a different meaning. Here’s the decoder: Why is my newborn baby crying?

After telling George Bush to go to hell, Hugo Chavez is doing the same thing to Bill Gates: Technology Review: Linux for the People

My very idiosyncratic list: Scariest product: Security Spy Direct was demonstrating a combination flashlight/taser. As the brochure says: “Your opponent’s eyes will literally POP OUT OF HIS HEAD when you send 500,000 volts of stunning electrical power into his body with our stun guns.” Then you can

LAS VEGAS–New wireless networking technologies are poised to cut the cable clutter on your desktop–starting with USB cables. At CES 2007, vendors including Tzero, Alareon, Staccato, and even DaimlerChrysler are demonstrating wireless networking technologies based on ultrawideband (UWB). And in the c

LAS VEGAS–If you’re lucky, a local Internet service provider may have started offering a residential fiber-optic service in the past year (such as Verizon’s FiOS service). And fiber to the home is certain to grow. With the increasing popularity of bandwidth-intensive applications such as streaming v

Pete Mortensen is right — if Apple’s phone is to succeed, it will be on the strength of its ability to sync easily with your computer: Cult of Mac

It’s a new year, and it’s time for pundits — even part-time pundits like me — to make their predictions. For someone who loves tech products, it’s an even more titillating time, because CES will bring an avalanche of them. So here are 7 key tech trends for 2007, and a measurable index (my prediction