As I’m writing this on my notebook, I’m intermittently checking e-mail, answering instant messages, tweeting, and sending Facebook updates. That’s a lot of windows: Wouldn’t it be nice if I could take care of all these things within one easy-to-use application? Lars and Jens Rasmussen, the brothers behind Google Maps, thought so too–and the powers [...]

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 [...]

You may not know me, but if you’re interested in personal technology there’s a decent chance you’ve run into my work before: I was an editor at PC World for the last 12 1/2 years, and before that covered technology for the L.A. Daily News, which syndicated my work everywhere. Last week I was shown [...]