For years I had an old Radio Shack — note the space between the words — “battery of the month club” card in my desk drawer. It is probably still back in Texas somewhere, never making my move to Silicon Valley. I got it when I was a kid and really wish I could find ...

Will the tragedy that unfolded last week in Paris change how the world looks at governments’ efforts to spy on potential terrorists? I pray this horror will remind us that evil exists on a global scale and it seeks to kill us and our families. But will we rise to the occasion and stop the hand-wringing ...

Like many — even most — people, I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook Inc., its intensity growing as I expect the platform help me communicate and Facebook tries to make more money. Facebook does a lot of really great stuff, but it also stumbles badly and doesn’t do nearly all it could. And because ...

T’was the night before Christmas and in a Facebook group called “;” a photo was posted of a dog, whom the message said was tied-up outside a shelter in Stockton, CA. The post added that animal had belonged to a homeless man who died the previous day. If there was ever a dog that needed ...

As a lifelong journalist, I hold special regard for freedom of the press and freedom of speech. With those freedoms, however, comes responsibility and that — right from the get-go — is where Sony Corp. blew it. Why would any sane person think you could make a buddy flick about the assassination of the North ...

There is a difference between market exuberance and price gouging, and today we have Uber Inc. to thank for demonstrating the difference to us. Uber’s supposedly demand-based pricing failed miserably in the wake of the terrorist incident, when Uber started charging frightened Sydney customers 400 percent of its regular fares. Some feel Uber was unfairly ...

Intel Corp. guesstimates there are 600 million PCs in service that are at least four years old. It considers those machines — including many Windows XP boxes — ripe for upgrading when Microsoft Windows 10 is released early next year. “When we see a healthy macroeconomic environment and an aging installed base we expect a ...

Google’s new internal search is a “thinly-veiled” attack on Google, according to Time.com. Given Google’s tardiness in doing something dramatic to improve search, I’m in favor of any attack on the search giant. Especially one that, Time speculates could spell the end of Google+. That wouldn’t bother me much, either. I have the new Facebook search ...

Businesses and non-profits that have depended upon Facebook Inc. for free promotion may soon find it necessary to pay Facebook to deliver their posts to people who have already said they want to receive them. Beginning in January, Facebook says it will dramatically cut the number of promotional messages that appear in users’ news feeds. ...

It surprised absolutely no one when Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook, in the quiet way that suits him, recently confirmed he’s gay. It’s great that it is no big deal that the CEO of one of America’s most successful corporations makes such a statement. And, being from Texas, I have to add that he’s a Southerner, ...