Dan Tynan

The cry came from the pit of agony and despair, also sometimes known as our daughter's bedroom. "Mom! What's the Internet password?" As usual it was less of a question and more of an accusation. Our 13-year-old, as angry as only a hormone-charged teen girl can be, discovered we had once again changed the pass code for the Wi-Fi router.

The time your kids spend texting, Facebooking and sending IMs can come at a price. Plug in to your kids' social networking skills before they totally disconnect.

Sometimes you gotta bend the rules. And when it comes to technology, some rules are begging to get bent. You might do it to gain access to features or functionality, or you do it because,...

Do me a favor and hide this article from my wife. It's the holiday season, and that means she'll soon drag me along on her annual descent into that pit of despair known as our local mall ...

I like paying $4 a gallon for gas as much as the next person. Which is to say, not one damned bit. So when the kind folks at GM called and offered to loan me a 2011 Chevy Volt -- Detroit'...