by Michael Bailey | Dec 4, 2013 | Technology
By KIT EATON, New York Times We have been promised a so-called paperless office and home for many years, but it has never quite happened. Printers, photocopiers, scanners and even fax machines still play a role in many of our working lives, although they feel more...
by Michael Bailey | Nov 13, 2013 | Privacy and Security, Technology
By Kate Murphy, New York Times LIKE most people, Kim Thomas has a broadband connection at home that she uses to check email, surf the Internet and stream music and video. But unlike most people, Ms. Thomas, 56, a program director for a charitable foundation in...
by Michael Bailey | Oct 3, 2013 | Technology
The good, bad, and the boring of wifi performance. I’m not sure I feel any better after reading this piece on boosting your home network. I’ve tried a couple of range extenders, and it seems like the signal is stronger. At least it displays as such on the...
by Michael Bailey | Sep 22, 2013 | News, Technology
By DAVID STREITFELD, New York Times “I celebrate myself, and sing myself,” wrote Walt Whitman, America’s great bard of self-promotion. As the world goes ever more digital, quite a few businesses are adopting that philosophy — hiring a veritable chorus of touts to sing...
by Michael Bailey | Aug 17, 2013 | News, Technology
By JAMES GLANZ for the New York Times IF pencil marks on some colossal doorjamb could measure the growth of the Internet, they would probably be tracking the amount of data sloshing through the public network that spans the planet. Christened by the World Economic...
by Michael Bailey | Jun 12, 2013 | News, Privacy and Security, Technology
I keep saying I should do this, and then don’t. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a good idea. It is! I have a ton of passwords. Lots of people do. Most of us with a bucket of ’em experience alternating states of fear, loss, control, power, suspicion,...
