HP's Photosmart B110a printer shows the direction printers will take as the Internet pervades everything electronic. Too bad about the driver software. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

A connection to a database is a resource intensive operation that typically comprises a few steps. A channel of communication between the application and the database should be established before the ...

I had been passing username/password strings directly into the ADO.NET connection string, however this means that if a user has a quote character in his password, it borks the ConnectionString and ...

I have my Xbox connected through Wi-Fi and the connection can be spotty at best because of where the console and my router reside. If the only reason a persistent connection is required is for the ...

Is there a way you can have dial access to the ‘net yet not block your incoming phone calls? Also, without knocking yourself off the connection to the net when the phone call is over? I guess I am ...