Tag: WOMEN

What do women want? Yes, the age-old question with no single set answer becomes even more complex with the advent of technology that is geared now toward more than just functionality but also form and style. So, add smartphones to the list of possibilities that will satisfy the people carrying around double-X chromosomes, because, as handset makers have discovered during the past year, the ...

According to market researchers at Sony Ericsson, it's the ladies that are driving the latest trends in the gadget world. It used to be that when companies wanted to market a gadget to women, they slapped some pink paint and glitter on it. Now feminized gadgets have taken on more practical designs that owe less to Barbie and gender stereotypes and more to the the industrial designs of companies ...

When it comes to careers in tech, it's still a man's world. According to Susan Merritt, the dean of the computer science program at Pace University in New York, only 10 percent of computing majors are women. One of the suggested reasons for such low interest among women could be that, as kids, boys are more likely to be interested in video games than girls, and gaming activity often leads to an ...