With the launch of Windows 7 last week, PC makers are trying some new things, including laptops with touch screens. Acer is going further - introducing a laptop with a 3-D screen. ...more

October 26, 2009

The reviews for Verizon's BlackBerry Storm have been as mixed as the results of the company's fourth-quarter sales figures. ...more

January 30, 2009

Dennis Orlos, who owns seven Central Florida Taco Bell franchises, and four of his fellow franchisees had a great idea: sell 20-cent tacos for a Customer Appreciation Day. ...more

January 22, 2009

It is not merely about the network anymore. The phone matters - as long as it includes a multi-megapixel camera, music player, touch screen, keyboard, global-positioning system and anything else not necessarily related to calling and answering. ...more

December 21, 2008

Yet another new voting system for Hillsborough County? That's a possibility as the county tries to determine what role the newly purchased optical-scan voting machines - and the system's owner, Premier Election Solutions - played in Tuesday's election fiasco. ...more

November 8, 2008

From the White House and Congress to the East Lake Tarpon Special Fire Control District and the Pasco Mosquito Control District. The votes that will be cast Nov. 4 in those races and the all the ones in between should be counted. If any aren't, however, in most cases the fault will lie with voters, not the equipment being used or the sinister forces some people devoutly believe "stole" recent elections. So be careful when voting with optical scanning voting equipment this Tuesday. ...more

November 1, 2008

We'll take Hillsborough County Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson at his word that the problem experienced posting vote tallies there Tuesday night wasn't the fault of the county's still-new optical-scanning voting system. In Pasco and Pinellas, which like Hillsborough and other Florida counties were forced to switch to optical scanning by the Legislatures, things also went fairly well. ...more

August 30, 2008

Having voted in yesterday's primary, I can't believe the state and local governments spent all those millions for the optical-scanning system. The touch-screen was less cumbersome - one machine per booth vs. two booths, paper, pen and folder - and confirmed who you voted for before you "went final." Correcting a mistake on the touch-screen was easy; now you have to go through an error process and do the whole system over. You aren't warned about undervotes at all. ...more

August 27, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Pasco County voters trickled to the polls Tuesday to decide a series of high-profile primary contests for congressional, state and county offices. ...more

August 27, 2008

Pasco voters head to the polls Tuesday, where they will find several races on the ballot, including a nonpartisan school board seat open to all voters and political party primaries for sheriff and county commission. ...more

August 24, 2008