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As you're strolling down Main Street, you spot an electronic avatar of a shopkeeper dancing outside a toy store. She calls out to you and your son by name. But [...]

In the late 1950s, computers started beating human opponents in the game of checkers. By the late '90s the machines had mastered chess. How long will it take computers to [...]

Jay Foley recently fielded calls in his office at the Identity Theft Resource Center from two campaign donors who were worried about how their credit card information would be handled. [...]

When you need to deposit a bundle of checks written to your campaign, your best bet typically is to take them to a teller at your bank. That's changing now, [...]

A wiki can replace the need for training because there are experts sharing knowledge informally. Wikis are emerging as more than the geeky mass of information collected and fought over [...]

You've mastered Facebook, MySpace and YouTube. Get ready for a new cadre of Web sites that cater to distinct demographic groups and are demanding attention from candidates. BlogHer.com, home to [...]

Over the next year, presidential campaigns won't be the only ones blasting e-mails asking donors for money. Scam artists are likely to send fake e-mails that trick donors into giving [...]

Device: Redfly by Celio Corp. Price: $229-$299 Grade: B It's nice to have the equivalent of a computer in the palm of your hand--until you find yourself squinting at a [...]

By now;, you've split your online personality among dozens of websites and services like Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and LinkedIn. One site promises to corral them all at a single online [...]

The family on the corner sees a campaign ad plugging the candidate's support for a children's health care program. The empty nesters next door are watching the same show on [...]

Politicians who find themselves lost in the wilderness after this month's election have nothing to fear. A good GPS device will lead them back to civilization, if not a winning [...]

Still hunting for that e-mail with the latest version of the speech you needed yesterday? If you'd downloaded Xobni, you'd have found the e-mail no matter how many messages were [...]

The growing number of people surfing the Web on mobile devices offers yet another outlet to reach people on the go. Mobile websites--those streamlined to fit the screen of a [...]

When blogger John Combest wanted to know who Missouri Republicans supported as their candidate for governor this year, he didn't have to look beyond his own website for an answer. [...]

A handful of new websites are hoping to wean political junkies from Google. They're all vying to become the next go-to spot for people searching for campaign coverage. Although each [...]

Chris Riley is hoping to chaperone a group of high school students to the Republican convention in Minneapolis. If those plans fall through, Riley likely will follow the convention via [...]

The polled sometimes have second thoughts after the pollster hangs up. Those last-minute changes of heart--and their impact on elections--are the inspiration for Bullitics.com,a polling website that aims to capture [...]

If the makers of smart phones really wanted to beat out the iPhone, they'd spend more time coming up with catchy names. The Samsung Instinct has a tag reminiscent of [...]

No one could challenge the candidate's claim to being a fresh face in the political arena--until staffers for the opposing candidate plugged his name into a new program called Oppo-Scan. [...]

Looking for supporters in the wilderness of online social networks can be as easy as gathering e-mail addresses. A free online service called Upscoop.com allows users to submit their e-mail [...]

People who talk back during debates, speeches and TV newscasts no longer have to mutter under their breath or shout in vain. Now they can create live blogs to post [...]

Years of experience have shown Joyce Cotten the best approach to instructing students of all ages in anything computer-related. Gotten seats people who know their way around a mouse and [...]

Does your desk need some spring cleaning? Several new devices can help you work more efficiently and effectively--or at least make it look like you do. One new device that [...]

Leave the cue cards in your briefcase the next time you have to give a speech. A free service at CuePrompter.com can turn any computer into a Teleprompter. Just copy [...]

Emerging research is matching online habits with political attachments. Studies have revealed the obvious, such as a liberal affinity for NYTimes.com and a conservative preference for FoxNews.com. But other findings [...]

Cell phones ring in offices and campaign headquarters even when it might be cheaper to pick up a nearby landline. New technology promises to even out the costs by creating [...]

In more ways than one, size is the most attractive feature of the MacBook Air, the eye-popping new laptop from Apple. When closed, the computer is about three-quarters of an [...]

This year's campaign speeches may be asking for your text messages as often as they ask for your vote. Several companies are offering services that allow event-goers to send text [...]

The Toy: Amazon Kindle The Grade: B- The Amazon Kindle looks like a revolution in e-reading, but one that, for now at least, is probably best viewed from the sidelines. [...]

When residents of Evesham, N.J., voted in May, Republican poll watchers checked off voters using pen and paper. Their Democratic rivals brandished BlackBerries powered by software from a company called [...]

The boundary between voice mail and e-mail is blurring. Companies have been offering services that translate voice mail to e-mail. Now a New Jersey company is touting its ability to [...]

Although TiVo and other DVRs have made it easier for campaigns to track television coverage, their ability to store clips is limited and retrieval can be time-consuming, according to Edward [...]

Democrat Darcy Burner, running as a challenger in Washington state's 8th Congressional District, wanted her own event to counter a visit in August by President George W. Bush. The president [...]

As mobile devices like the iPhone provide a better Internet experience, e-mail could eclipse text messages as a tool for getting out the vote in future elections. On Election Day, [...]

The warning that 'this call may be recorded for training purposes' is a common refrain for anyone dialing up customer service. An Atlanta-based company is bringing similar technology to live [...]

The bathroom mirror could soon be obsolete, at least as a venue for practicing speeches. Just in time for the 2008 campaign cycle, a Georgia-based company has been fine-tuning a [...]

Candidates are used to fretting about their position on the ballot. But now, they can also worry how quickly their Web sites come up when someone searches for them on [...]

Campaigns incur a small fee every time they accept an online donation made via credit card. A company in North Carolina, First One Now LLC, wants donors to be able [...]

Get your domain names now before the presidential campaign really heats up. Sites already snagged include ObamaTruth.org, StopHillary.com, RudysReallyLiberal.com and TheRealMcCain.com. As the primaries near, more partisans will take to [...]

Charlie Gerow is waiting for the video snippet that will reel in the crowds to his social-networking site for conservatives, QubeTV. 'That's what is going to make this site,' said [...]

Someday, voters may forgive political candidates for the unguarded moments that derail a campaign. But, that day won't come soon, said Carol Darr, director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy [...]

The other day, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., texted to let me know he was 'at the University of Iowa envisioning affordable universal healthcare by end of first term.' And Rep. [...]

After Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., ran for president in 2004, his campaign team had fund-raising information stashed everywhere--a database here, an Excel spreadsheet there--but no easy way to bring it [...]

Robocalls have become a staple of modern campaigns, and so have complaints from irate voters sick of the pre-recorded messages. Now, a California company that makes the calls is offering [...]

If you want a message to stand out above the clutter on your campaign's Web page, post it someplace else. Start a microsite. A microsite is a Web site created [...]

As campaigns spread across the Internet, political handicappers have a whole new world of numbers to sift through. Pundits and strategists can count everything from Web page hits to MySpace [...]

A campaign's home page sits in the sort of neighborhood where it's best to make sure all the doors are shut tight. The Internet is teeming with hackers and viruses [...]

It's relatively easy to have your phone calls bounce from one line to another if the first one doesn't pick up. But why wait? A new service can ring all [...]

Every week sees another online player adding new features for the 2008 presidential campaign. So far, this election cycle will feature online debates, an Internet-only primary and Web video channels [...]

All you need to launch your own social network is a computer and an Internet connection. That's the promise behind Ning, a company in Palo Alto, Calif. Ning offers free [...]