Apps can track heart health

Just a download away are hundreds of apps on your iPhone or Android that can help save your life.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Social media event of the year?

Were you planning to sit back and relax while watching Super Bowl XLVII? Think again. There’s a conspiracy afoot to get you to work during the game.

Mom goes viral with son's phone code of conduct

Janell Burley Hofmann honored her 13-year-old son's "maturity and growth" at Christmas with his first iPhone, but it came with strings attached.

Weight loss apps can benefit dieters

So, once again, you resolve to lose weight for the New Year. There's an app for that; or, rather, more apps.

Top 10 tech tips for a healthier heart

The message that a healthy lifestyle helps protect your heart isn't new. If you'd like to do more to take care of your heart, here are 10 ways technology can make that easier.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Social media make campaigns more accessible

Savvy politicians and their advisers are often the first to take advantage of new technologies to convert followers into voters. In the 1930s and 1940s, it was radio. In the 1950s and 1960s, television took over. Now in 2012, we have social media, smartphones and tablets.

Verizon to ditch most phone plans for shared ones

NEW YORK | Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest cellphone company, is dropping nearly all its phone plans in favor of pricing schemes that encourage consumers to connect their non-phone devices, like tablets and PCs, to Verizon's network.

Getting your child to leave the virtual world

Kids these days are constantly bombarded by social media and gaming devices. Thanks to smartphones, they are exerting all of their time and energy into a technological device and falling short at life's more exciting ventures.

Times launches iPad app

The Times Media Co. is adding to its portfolio of digital products with the release of its new iPad application.

Indiana highway signs alert drivers to texting ban

INDIANAPOLIS | Motorists traveling on Indiana highways through Sunday are getting a very large reminder that texting-while-driving is prohibited.

Purdue junior with local roots develops app to help students improve literacy

A Purdue University junior with Gary roots partly credits his experience working at a Mexican fast-food joint for influencing a piece of technology in the making.

Dyer house streaming events live online

DYER | Shaun Ciesielski's wife Sara always enjoyed watching her husband bowl.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Mobile devices will dominate our lifestyles this year

The Great Recession might have delayed the onslaught of mobile devices as a driver of our digital culture, but 2011 will be the year when many aspects of our lifestyles are influenced by mobile communications: