By JENNA WORTHAM
Published: May 13, 2010
Liza Colburn uses her cellphone constantly. Jodi Hilton for The New York Times Liza Colburn and her 12-year-old daughter, Abigail, use their cellphones for many tasks, but make relatively few phone calls.
She taps out her grocery lists, records voice memos, listens to music at the gym, tracks her caloric intake [...]
You win a bet, but the loser does not have enough cash on him to settle it. If he has a credit card, and most people usually do, there is finally a solution. A number of big and small companies — including eBay’s PayPal unit, Intuit, VeriFone and Square — are creating innovative ways for [...]
By Vikas Bajaj
Lynn Barry/SixthSense Using a palm for dialing a phone number.
Many Indians bought their first mobile phones before they had their first experiences with personal computers. Pranav Mistry thinks that most of them might also skip keyboards and mice and go straight to more intuitive and interactive interfaces.
Mr. Mistry, a 28-year-old research assistant [...]