As if the world doesn’t have enough acronyms, now come all these techno products with abbreviated names.  One can identify these aliens by their buttons, which are not unlike those countless buttons on a television (a.k.a. or Acronym Known As TV) remote control.  Whatever happened to good, old on-off and simple channel buttons when the [...]

They’re a different genus, these homo electronicas.  They walk upright, all right, but one always strangely finds his way without looking; his head is forever bowed, his eyes permanently focused on the cell phone in his hand. The other is almost always seated.  Fact is he can only sit comfortably when there’s a computer in front [...]

Never had a group of men taken pride in who had the smallest, commented one participant some years ago after he noticed in a business conference in Europe that the latest mobile or cell phones were getting smaller. For reasons lucid to the techno-savvy and incomprehensible to the techno-simpleton, small is better; the more expensive, the [...]