Crash Survival Zone

‘Green’ electronics and expanded Web access are among the trends that will do well, a trade group economist says.

Though 2009 looks just as grim as 2008, organizers of the Consumer Electronics Show last week forecast a few rays of sunshine.

The Consumer Electronics Assn. projected growth in organic LED displays, digital book readers, Blu-ray disc players [...]

It’s dawn at a Los Angeles apartment overlooking the Hollywood Hills. Laura Sweet, an advertising creative director in her early 40s, sits at a computer and begins to surf the Net. She searches intently, unearthing such bizarre treasures for sale as necklaces for trees and tattoo-covered pigs. As usual, she posts them on a shopping [...]

In today’s deep recession, digital age advocates are trying to persuade President-elect Barack Obama to put billions into a nationwide broadband build-out as part of his planned economic stimulus package.

Given that the internet has grown into an indispensable tool for the economy, for people’s personal lives and for the nation’s political discourse, spending billions to [...]