Philips cites studies saying that some 30% of home networking products are returned because people cannot get them to work, and almost half the people thinking about buying a digital camera delay their purchase because they fear they might find it too complicated.

ECONOMIST: Not a dog, but a mobile phone

On Monday, the U.S. Senate passed the DTV Delay Act, which postpones the deadline to switch from an analog to a digital signal to June 12 from Feb. 17.

FORBES: In The Air

Before the introduction of magnetic tape, digital storage for early computers used punched cards, paper tape as well as more exotic technologies such as mercury delay lines and the phosphors on cathode ray tubes.

FORBES: Magnetic Tape Turns 60