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Mothers drive family tech boom

At the place where motherhood meets entrepreneur and play dates collide with iPads, a new market for parent- and kid-friendly technology is exploding.Family tech -- Web services and applications for parents and kids -- is a new market driven largely by mothers creating technology to solve ...

Google’s prodcuts dig deeper into people’s lives

SAN FRANCISCO -- For Google CEO Larry Page, happiness is a warm computer."Technology should do the hard work so people can get on doing the things that make them happiest in life," Page told a crowd of 6,000 software developers and entrepreneurs who flocked to San Francisco Wednesday for the ...

Google Glass a hit with early adopters

Back when she was in college, software developer Monica Wilkinson says, she used to dream of "being able to carry a computer in my head," instead of lugging her books and laptop all over campus. As she tried out her new Google Glass recently, Wilkinson said, it felt like that fanciful idea had ...

Bionic eye maker has vision of the future

LOS ANGELES -- Robert Greenberg got tired of hearing from senior engineers that it wasn't possible to build his product idea: a bionic eye that gives sight to the blind."A lot of the folks straight out of school didn't know any better, so I hired them instead," quipped Greenberg, chief ...

Senate OKs bill letting states tax online sales

WASHINGTON -- The Senate aimed to help traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing a bill that would widely subject online shopping -- for many a largely tax-free frontier -- to state sales taxes.The Senate passed the bill by a vote of 69 to 27, ...

Google Fiber earns good grades from early customers

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Installers show up on time. Headquarters often tells customers when something needs to be fixed without prompting. Unsolicited credits sometimes show up on bills to account for small service glitches.Talk to a sampling of the earliest Google Fiber subscribers in the nation's ...