Since we reported yesterday that cable and Internet provider Comcast had acquired social address book Plaxo for an estimated $150 million, we've been fielding a lot of...

At a luncheon in her honor at The Friars Club in Manhattan Thursday, Fran Drescher (The Nanny) shared a details about the television show she and Rosie O’Donnell are in...

Welcome to the first ever Retro Thing poll. Although I love vintage computers, it's been decades since I've actually used a TRS-80 CoCo or Commodore PET. Still, the...

I'm giving an exam this morning (magnetic fields, circuits, magnetic forces on charges), which is always a carnival of boredom-- happily, I have papers to grade during...

An unprecedented 80 percent of likely voters surveyed said the United States has gotten off-course — a huge jump from the 68 percent who felt that way in a previous...

A couple months back I closed the poll that asked people what year they started being a 9/11 activist. Last night, user 'Wendy' wrote in and said that she drew...

For the first time since 1993, the percentage of people who say their finances are very or fairly secure falls below 60%, the survey shows. ...

It's online ad forecasting season, and we really would like Jupiter clients input. The survey on our site is too small to be useful -- so I'm not posting any results...

Oh, dear. Time Out Kids is having a little poll about Real Estate. No one can afford to live anywhere in New York anymore, so they're asking where their readers would...

This morning I went into the darkest room in our house (the kids' bathroom), closed the door, and turned off the lights for 5 minutes. There was enough light coming in...

To my amazement there are very few folks following the where2008 thread on Twitter. Just 70. Perhaps folks are all all on the backchannel IRC? (IRC channel #where2008 on...

A new Portland Tribune poll in Oregon finds Sen. Barack Obama "has amassed a nearly insurmountable lead" in advance of next week's primary.Obama leads Sen. Hillary...

Following outages last night that Mark blamed on the Democrats, Twitter has gone down again this afternoon. I’ve been noticing the outages for at least an hour,...

In the Season Finale Parts 2 and 3 you will see one of these characters die. We have 2 polls, the first is for who do you think will die and the second is who do you hope...

Today's Quinnipiac University National poll is the second poll in a row showing a majority of Democrats favoring an Obama/Clinton ticket. By a 60 - 33 percent margin,...

Shared by Robert Scoble Zoho is one of the companies I'm watching very closely. Especially since next month we'll start a new show on the future of work for...

Only 19% of respondents see an upturn coming within the next six months. Most...

With Clinton holding a huge lead in the latest West Virginia polls, her win there is all but assumed. One energetic Hillary supporter even suggested a 60-point margin...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Portables, PowerBook, Surveys and Polls, Macbook Pro, MacBook Up until a few years ago, I had a 12" PowerBook G4 that I...

Americans are gloomier about the direction of the country than they have been at any point in 15 years, and Democrats hold their biggest advantage since early 1993 as the...