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As tiny, internet-connected computers find their way into hundreds of mundane household objects, the coming “internet of things” will drastically change how people live, work and play. Connected devices can keep records and share data among themselves. The potential benefits are enormous, especially when it comes to our health.

Hewlett Packard’s new Windows Phone could be the only laptop you’ll ever need.

That’s the idea behind HP’s Elite X3 smartphone — which crams laptop-like hardware into a smartphone — introduced this week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The mega-extravaganza of the tech world in Las Vegas is showcasing an array of new devices that get smarts from computer chips, sensors and artificial intelligence, but go further by opening doors to augmented or virtual realities.

With more than 100 billion emails sent daily, researchers from Yahoo Labs in California and Spain decided to investigate how we actually use one of the oldest forms of communication on the web.

The researchers dissected the email habits of 2 million users who exchanged 16 billion emails over the course of several months. As one of the largest ever studies conducted on email usage, it revealed some surprising (and some expected) results.

The Federal Communications Commission has announced that it has named a new chief technology officer: Scott Jordan, a professor of computer science at the University of California at Irvine.

The FCC has a history of hiring CTOs that know their stuff, technologically speaking.

Google has announced that its search results will no longer show the names of authors.

Google Authorship, first launched in 2011, was meant to help writers generate a following for their work. The Authorship program, which required linking a website to a Google+ account, has been scaled down gradually since late last year.

It’s not like he needs it to beef up his resume, but the world’s richest college dropout is finally getting…

If you haven’t noticed, I updated timothytracy.com again, and moved everything around so it can be mobile ready. Yes finally. All of these years I have been making other sites mobile ready except for my own.

I turned on my cell this morning to check out a few things, and noticed that no email was coming…

Technology is emerging at ever-increasing speeds, transforming how we communicate, collaborate and manage our day-to-day responsibilities. This trend is especially evident in communications technology. Among the many recent entries are so-called “email killers,” which aim to replace a form of communication to which all of us have grown accustomed. The makers of these new collaboration tools call email a “legacy” technology — unwarrantedly trying to tarnish its image.

Today I finally received my free edition of Vista Home Premium and I am really hesitant to install it over…

Tuesday was my daughters 11th birthday, and she seemed to really have a great time – but at the same…

Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world’s leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone…

Not long ago when I was writing about BB failing with it’s email; I have to admit – I was…

Well Folks.. I have changed programs drastically …. I am not using the older gallery program for the Blog anymore….