Category: Technology

Angry Birds Does Hitchcock Proud

If you haven’t noticed, hostile avians are everywhere. I’m not talking about the kind Hitchcock made famous, of course. I’m talking about their digital descendants

Livin’ la Vida Facebook

I’ve got to admit, I really love the recent Toyota Venza commercial. It focuses on a young girl who’s worrying about her parent’s lack of

Steve Jobs: Entertainment Star

Steve Jobs, the computer visionary who helped create Apple, then was fired from Apple, then came back to Apple to take the business to unprecedented

Lions, Tigers and Studies, Oh My

Here at Plugged In we love statistics and studies. In our daily cultural research and media reviews, we’re constantly plucking out quotes and figures from

The (No) Paper Trail

As you all know, the world of presidential politics is heating up and will be getting incrementally toastier in the next 18 months. Candidates are

Are Kids Less Creative?

What seemingly grouchy adults have suspected for years is actually true—at least according to a new study. Overall, kids today are less creative than they

Shelved

Don’t look now, but Apple—the quirky computer company of the 1980s, the one that always played nebbish outsider to Microsoft’s football jock in the 1990s—is

Heroes in the Tweets

OK, I’ll admit it, I haven’t always been the most vocal supporter of the wonders of social networking. In fact, I was recently contemplating its

Digitally Distracted

It sounds like angels are bowling five feet above my head today. OK, it’s actually roofers working on our office building. But the distracting racket

Techin’ in the Boys Room

I remember the day—many moons back when I was in high school—when the school administration announced that they were going to sanction a certain outdoor

Plugged In Parent’s Guide to Today’s Technology

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