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A review of the Jabra Freeway, a Bluetooth speakerphone that clips to a car visor Most car speakerphones require you to dial numbers on your phone to make a call. The Jabra Freeway, a 5-ounce Bluetooth speakerphone that clips to a car visor, lets you place, answer, and ignore calls by speaking a command, such as "Call office." The phone, which can connect with up to two Bluetooth devices at the same time, announces the name of incoming callers

People are shopping with a mission, and brands are announcing themselves from behind store walls. The Proximity Era has begun. Mall rats soon may be an endangered species

Sports teams finally find something to agree on. .title {text-transform:uppercase;font-family:arial;font-size:11px;} .caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;margin-bottom:15px;} .caption img {padding-bottom:2px;} Photo by Annie Marie Musselman Sports in America will always be an indulgent birthright. You don't go to the ball game to worry about whether the world will melt

Your GPS could soon know how high you are. Rice University scientists have written some smart software that better interprets the signals coming from space that tell a GPS device its altitude, with an accuracy of around a centimer. You may never have noticed it, but even when your car's unit is reporting your position to within a few meters, its guess as to your altitude is very poor--much worse than one centimeter.

What does an infant's affinity to Apple say about how technology affects us and our daily lives? As part of an experiment for my forthcoming book Brandwashed, I lined up 20 babies between the ages of 14 and 20 months. I then handed each one a BlackBerry

Oh my! This makes Microsoft and Nokia's hook-up look like a dropped call. In case you were under a rock yesterday, Google has announced it is buying Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. First, there are the obvious implications: 1.

Enough with the cumbersome wires, lights, and battery packs. The new wave of wearable technology prizes style, comfort, and utility.

Think Facebook and Twitter are all you need to get the word out about your new business? Here are eight more ways to get some media attention. Now that you’ve made the bold move of opening up your own business, you’re likely faced with the challenge of spreading the word about your goods or services to potential customers

In acting they call it a "cattle call." Hundreds of up-and-coming actors file in to the same audition in hopes of being chosen for a role. It's quite a demeaning process. Kind of hard to tell with a name like "cattle call," but the process goes something like this: The actor stands in the center of a cold, uninviting room and faces a table with what is essentially a panel of judges, similar to a firing squad.

InterSys Consulting keeps its operations lean by outsourcing and working in the cloud.

Instead of driving aimlessly looking for a spot, pay a few bucks to have someone give you theirs. It's happened to all of us: circling for what seems like hours trying to find a parking spot near our house or the restaurant you're going to.

Disney Research has come up with a new technology so

I will never forget the phone call I received from my colleague Mike on Dec. 26, 2005

Google wants Voice Search to master the Tower of Babel. So Linne Ha travels the world, gathering the language samples used to train it

So you’ve escaped, or narrowly missed, corporate cubicle confinement, but now you’re met with some very different challenges. Sure, working from the home office certainly has its benefits, but many solopreneurs are surprised by confusing emotions resulting from a different type of confinement. If you’re not careful, your freedom will come at a cost