The latest one I received is quite clever - and under the right circumstances, could be seriously misleading.

Computing Columnist Nancy Roberts tells us about the number of innovations computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart unveiled.

Computing Columnist Nancy Roberts tells us about flash drives.

Up until today, I have been able to resist the siren song of the iPhone.

I love sci-fi. As a child, I read my way through the entire category in the local public library. Over time, I realized I was less enchanted with the stories which were weapon and battle centered, and those who were idea/philosophy driven. So the Ray Bradburys and Philip K. Dicks were great; the endless Star Wars and Mech Wars books, not so much.

Are you looking for a program that can capture video from your computer and put it into a file? Nancy Roberts has a suggestion.

Mankind has a "demi-urge." That is to say, we have a long fascination with the idea of creating a new form of being. The early Jews posited the Golem, clay men which, when brought to life, did the bidding of the animator; the ancient Greeks liked the idea of fighting men that sprang from planted dragon's teeth; Mary Shelley wondered what would result if a man was stitched together from corpses and reanimated; today we ponder the possibility of cloning a man from a few of his cells.

As I have written again and again, Amazon.com changed the way we shop. Not just "shop online." But the way we shop, period.

There's always a new scam - one that even a suspicious veteran like me is prone to fall victim to.

A certain group of web prognosticators have sworn for years that the Next Big Thing (NBF) on the web would be the spoken word.