Stories about: Escalade

Ah, youth. Ready to take on the world, today's generation of dynamic, tech-immersed youngsters have grown up alongside the Internet. Firsthand, and sometimes single-handedly, they have advanced some of today's hottest technology trends, from peer-to-peer networking, to massively multiplayer online games, to social networks and instant messaging. And along the way, a small, sociopathic number of them have behaved very, very badly.

It's 2008 already. Didn't the magazines promise us flying cars by now?

The most intriguing part of my job is the opportunity to preview new products and technologies early. The interesting thing about looking at products early is that any given one could turn out to an immediate success, need some fine-tuning, evolve into something entirely else, or fail. You never know.

A flurry of SATA (serial ATA) storage solutions is quickly pushing parallel ATA out of the market. Even though SATA is faster, more flexible, and more scalable than ATA, not to mention equally affordable, the protocol still fights a perception of inadequacy for critical business applications.

Hewlett-Packard Co. and L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co. on Tuesday announced plans to take the World Wide Web to the back seats of taxicabs, initially in Singapore and later around the world.