Tech Lab
Apps to entertain kids on long car trips
With a car full of gadgets and the right apps, the holiday road trip should be a good deal calmer this year — at least until the batteries run out.
Video
Don't make me stop this app
In this edition of Tech Lab, Hiawatha Bray reviews kid-friendly apps.
Lack of trust in Facebook may hold back ad sales
Few users surveyed in an Associated Press-CNBC poll say they click on the site’s ads or buy the virtual goods that make money for it.
Massachusetts firm in $1.25b deal in China
Alternative energy start-up GreatPoint Energy will announce that it will build a plant in Western China to convert coal into synthetic natural gas.
Comcast’s latest cable box may debut in Boston
Boston is expected to be the first major city to get Comcast’s next-generation combination cable box, Internet-enabled programming guide, and digital video recorder.
WHITE COAT NOTES
Five ideas that could help tech blossom
Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the national coordinator for health information technology, revealed five things government can do to foster innovation.
Innovation Economy
When your cellphone is a toy
TheO Ball is a foam sphere with a pocket in its center to keep the phone safe while allowing players to see its screen.
Inside Business
Tech Lab by Hiawatha Bray
Bray is a technology writer. His Tech Lab column appears on Thursdays, and Tech Lab Plus on Mondays.
Innovation Economy by Scott Kirsner
Kirsner’s Innovation Economy column appears in the Boston Sunday Globe, and excerpts from his blog appear on Mondays.
Science
Houston lawyer seeks to inventory moon particles
A former NASA investigator is on a quest to identify and perhaps recover rare treasure brought to Earth and then lost: tiny portions of moon rocks.
