Technology overcomes distance. Plus, there's always the postman. Look to your left, then to your right. Chances are someone's missing, be it a laid-off co-worker, a foreclosed neighbor or a favorite shop gone under.

The U.S. health care industry "is about to undergo a global revolution driven by a force it can no longer resist: information technology," the Wall Street Journal reports.

A survey released Sunday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project suggested that 15 percent of people who had a gadget break down in the previous year were never able to get it repaired.

Reuel Virtucio’s father is an expert on bamboos. He looked for a consulting job when he retired, but after searching for a year, the elder Virtucio discovered that companies were looking for consultants familiar with technology and the Internet.

Michael Liedtke, The Associated Press July 28, 2008 - 7:27 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO - Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.