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David Pogue, New York Times technology columnist, CBS news correspondent

Welcome to Pogue's Pages!

Here you'll find every conceivable shred of information about my columns and books, along with just enough pictures, words, and links to satisfy the next person who asks me, "Do you have a Web site?"

This week's New York Times column

A Web Site to Call Your Own

Nov. 2, 2006

If you operate a small business, you might already use technology to conceal just how small you are — by setting up multiple e-mail addresses and phone extensions, for example (“for Asian operations, press 7”).

Unfortunately, the illusion that you’re a big, competent corporation evaporates the minute you reveal your Web address... more

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Last week's email column

A Look Back at the Buzz of 2006

Nov. 2, 2006

As consumer technology goes, 2006 was an impressive year. It’s not even over, but there’s already been enough eyebrow-raising news to fill an ordinary year three times over.

The trouble with writing about it all, though, is that once your words hit newsprint, they tend to stay just the way you wrote them. Time moves on, and circumstances change; by the end of year, January’s articles look practically prehistoric. Heck, in the tech industry, what you wrote last week looks... more

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Palm Pilot Theatre

Oct. 19, 2006

Encore presentation: When you're a Palm Pilot, how do you make yourself indispensable when a cellphone can do almost everything that you can?

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Special Circuits columns

Special Purpose Cameras

June 7, 2006

Every modern digital camera offers roughly the same features: zoom lens, movie mode, output jack for displaying photos on a TV, rapid-fire burst mode and so on... more

Going Online on the Go: Your Options as of Right Now

May 3, 2006

If you travel infrequently, you can be forgiven if discussions of Wi-Fi hot spots and Bluetooth Internet access don't set your pulse... more

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Making Financial Room for Baby

Teaching Young Children About Money

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