Calling all budding editors

Andrea White challenges student readers to help edit her next novel

By Erin Schwarz

07.01.12 | 5:45 pm

Andrea White is changing typical teaching techniques. For her next project, the noted children's book author, whose historical fiction and science fiction novels attract middle school readers, ...

Tech time

Skype comes to TV: Comcast offers popular video calling service in HD

By Braden Doyle

06.24.12 | 8:30 am

Increasingly, your computer can do anything your TV can do. But now Comcast is turning the tables on its computer competitors by offering Skype on TV. After introducing the popular video callin ...

Skype Wi-Fi is comin' to town

We were good this year: Skype provides free Wi-Fi to 50 U.S. airports, including Bush and Hobby

By Fayza A. Elmostehi

12.22.11 | 12:31 pm

Oh, the traveler's eternal dilemma: Will the airport or won't the airport have Wi-Fi? Thanks to Skype, travelers will find that signal they're searching for more often than not this ...

Princess Diana still rules

Why don't royal lovers love Kate Middleton? Not close to the fairest of them all in new survey

By Caroline Gallay

08.31.11 | 3:53 pm

The fact that Princess Diana, killed 14 years ago today, is still high on British people's list of favorite royals is none too surprising. What is surprising is that new addition Kate Middl ...

Opening of My Caribbean Self

Philomena Gabriel Contemporary (closed/relocated)

08.13.11

Philomena Gabriel Contemporary is billing My Caribbean Self as the first exhibition in Houston to feature established and emerging artists from Trinidad. Combining figurative and abstract work,

To the victor go the spoils

The death of cool talk: Microsoft buys Skype in a game of keep-away from Google & Facebook

By Fayza A. Elmostehi

05.11.11 | 2:01 pm

Brace yourself, technophiles. We have some disturbing news for you. The savior of long-distance relationships the world over — both romantic and platonic — was purchased on Tuesday like ...

R.I.P.

Death becomes them: No need for a telephone or TV with Gmail and Netflix

By Fayza A. Elmostehi

08.28.10 | 1:00 pm

Pieces of the Philo T. Farnsworth and Alexander Graham Bell legacies died this week. But these tragedies weren't reported in TMZ or People, or any fluff rags in between. And you didn't ...

Net Battleground

Who should control the Internet? The government faces off against cable companies

By Bill Van Rysdam

05.09.10 | 12:30 am

Is the government trying to take over the Internet? The Federal Communications Commission is looking at a plan that would enact a policy of “Net Neutrality”, where companies that provid ...