For cancer, log on to blogotherapy

Two months after learning she had breast cancer, Jennifer Boyd found herself sitting in the back room of a Boston salon, picking out wigs to replace her thick, sandy-brown hair, stolen in bunches by chemotherapy.

Dial H... for help

When you receive them, unsolicited, you get into a rage. But admit it, in this hurried existence, where would you be without helplines to get through your day. You are hungry, you call a number.

More from Pandora’s box

As a kid I had my share of exposure to comic-book super heroes, like Superman, Phantom, Garth, Mandrake the Magician, Batman to name a few.

A touch therapy for the tech-savvy

Breakthroughs often beget other breakthroughs, and Apple’s slick use of touch-screen technology on its iPhone has set touch-screen makers to salivating.

Virtual Bollywood

Bollywood is on my mind these days. I can’t seem to escape all the Bollywood-related news that comes my way in the online world.

It’s a lo-fi power game

Ten feet short of the finish line, Barbie Airplane was stranded. A screaming speedster powered by a whirling circular saw flew from a wooden ramp at the recent Power Tool Drag Racing competition in Seattle.

Music on the computer

Till recently a 15" monitor was the standard for a PC. Courtesy the falling prices of display units, a 17" or a 19" monitor is the norm these days and soon you will see that the 22" monitor has become the standard.

Computer speaks?

Of all the high-tech fantasies that sci-fi movies tantalise their escapist audiences with, surely that bit about giving your computer spoken orders is one of the most alluring.

Collateral gain

With green computing a major focus of all gizmo producers today, take-back offers are a good way of dealing with e-waste.

Want to get rid of surprises?

Nowhere is it written in stone that all teenagers must at some point run up their parents’ cellphone bills with 3,000 peak minutes, 5,000 text messages and enough new ring tones to fill the overnight slot on a college radio station.

Why your computer must sleep

It’s said if 5% of the energy we consume can be reduced, it would be enough to power a small city in a country like India. Little wonder then that in the wake of global warming, experts from all sectors are developing methods to reduce e-waste

Don’t go by the looks of it

Though India’s PC penetration is far from reaching saturation point, yet it’s fast being replaced by laptops, at least in the urban scenario.

Globetrot from where you are

Jill Smart, an Accenture executive, was skeptical the first time she stepped into her firm’s new videoconferencing room in Chicago for a meeting with a group of colleagues in London.

Strictly business?

Consider this. According to Comscore, an Internet research marketing company, in April 2008 about 11 billion videos were consumed in the USA and out of that about 38% was from Google properties.

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