Networking

Every time you get on the web, where you point your browser can be recorded. Whether you're at work, on a public wireless network at a coffee bar, or even at home, your web travels are an open book if the network is being monitored, either at the Internet router or from within your wireless network.  And often, web sites can tell where you're visiting from based on your computer's internet address.

Sometimes, a gadget comes along that shakes everything up.  Ten years ago, that gadget was the Apple iPod. Four years ago, it was the Apple iPhone.  Last year, it was the Apple iPad.

With the year almost done, and the technology industry preparing to show off its hopes and dreams for 2011 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in a few short weeks, it's time to take a look at the products that they're going to have to shoot to beat from this year.  The tech industry has certainly turned its sights (at least to some degree) on the upper age brackets of the population in the last year more than it has in the past; Some of the gadgets and services introduced (or improved) in 2010 made technology more approachable for average people and even might have made life

Internet-based video and "Internet TV" are among some of the most-hyped features of many of the entertainment products being peddled this year for the holidays.  Apple TV, Google TV, and the Boxee Box are just a few of the consumer electronics devices for Web-based entertainment that are being targeted at people more comfortable with a remote in their hand than a computer mouse.