<Breaking radio silence> It’s been more than a year since I last posted. Why am I posting now? It’s got something to do with the photo of the Beatles circa 1969 on the big billboard some 100 feet from my loft. I see it every day, and it’s like an instant trip in a time machine. [...]

I don’t have kids and I rarely go on long road trips, so I’m probably the last person in the country who would blow $1299 to put an AT&T CruiseCast antenna on top of my aging Honda Accord. But if you’ve got the money (and a preinstalled rear-seat entertainment system to hook the antenna signal into), the system and its [...]

Yes, today’s Web apps are cool — but you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. That was the message from speakers at the keynote for Google I/O, the company’s developer conference, which runs today and tomorrow at Moscone Center West. With Google CEO Eric Schmidt as emcee, several Google execs showed off a variety of cool technologies, [...]

If I need to figure out how to get somewhere, I can use Google Maps on my iPhone. But what if someone else needs to figure out how to get to me? Sure, I can spend a few minutes on the phone describing my whereabouts or giving directions. But unless I can easily pinpoint my [...]