'Force Friday' spans all types of media

Disney unveils Star Wars toys amid marketing blitz

Grasp the digital landscape

Before delving deeper into all the powerful resources available to you, it's worth looking at the overall digital landscape. The Internet, in all its glory, is progressing at a phenomenal pace. "Digital" comprises a mix of different channels such as social networks, websites, email; mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets; videos, widgets, kiosks, and gaming consoles. These media help marketers build relationships with consumers, publicize their brands, and also sell their products or services.

Barnes & Noble to add Google Play app store

Malone's Barnes & Noble bid a bet on the Nook

Electronic reader has the potential to deliver all types of digital products

NEW YORK - Why buy a bookstore?

HP overhaul minimizes consumers

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Hewlett-Packard's decision to surrender in smartphones and tablet computers and possibly get rid of its personal computer business underscores how Apple has transformed consumer electronics in just four years.

Wishing upon a Star

Idaho contemplates computer devices for students

First iPad 2 sales greeted by lines

New model comes with several improvements

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The updated version of Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet computer went on sale Friday afternoon, and was greeted by the now-familiar lines of buyers outside Apple stores.

How health care case will unfold

Supreme Court to hear arguments beginning Monday

The death of DVDs

Ask The Propellorheads

A: First, watch what you say about my Granny. She makes great bread pudding and $2 used to buy a lot of ribbon candy.

How do you take your medication?

While most medications are taken in tablet or caplet (oblong tablet) form, both are composed of compressed powder that needs to dissolve in the stomach before the active ingredient is released. For faster relief, chewable tablets are absorbed as soon as they reach the stomach, and dissolvable tablets act like ground-up chewables once dissolved in the mouth. Liquid medications are absorbed as soon as they reach the digestive system. Gel caps contain liquid medication encased in a gelatin exterior. Once the stomach dissolves the outer coating, the medication is quickly absorbed. There are also tongue strips, which melt before they are absorbed in the stomach, which is just about as quick as dissolvable tablets.

Fishing tournament Saturday

Event to raise funds for Coeur d'Alene High School Viking Education Foundation and Boosters Club

Those looking for an excuse to fish can help local teachers buy supplies this month.

Shocked? Not!

Not many surprises in Super Bowl ads

It's a mouser masterpiece

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles animal shelter that lets its cats chase toys on top of iPads hope the digital art created by the movement will encourage donations of money and tablet computers.

The new must-haves from CES

Ask The Propellorheads

School shutdowns raise stakes of digital divide for students

WINNSBORO, S.C. (AP) — Students struggling to get online in a rural South Carolina county received a boost last week with the arrival of six buses equipped with Wi-Fi, some of the hundreds the state has rolled out since schools were closed by the coronavirus outbreak.

Shoppers snap up Cyber Monday deals

Americans growing more comfortable using tablets, computers, phones to shop

Netbooks unable to replace your laptop

Ask the Propellerheads

Dear PropellerHeads: I was going to buy a netbook. But my iPhone zealot friends say it is old technology and I should buy an iPad. That true?

Microsoft launches radical redesign

Windows 8 to bridge gap between PC, mobile devices

Microsoft launched a radical redesign of its world-dominating Windows operating system Thursday, introducing a touch-enabled interface that attempts to bridge the gap between personal computers and fast-growing mobile devices powered by the company's fiercest competitors.

Microsoft unveils 'Surface' tablet

LOS ANGELES - Microsoft has unveiled Surface, a tablet computer to compete with Apple's iPad.

Take Aspirin at first signs of heart attack

Those in the early grips of a heart attack may find that chewing an aspirin tablet will help save their lives. Heart attacks are often the result of a blood clot in the coronary artery that blocks blood flow. Aspirin may help overcome these heart events by inhibiting the formation of the blood clots. The most effective way to help restore blood flow in the event of a heart attack is to chew and swallow a regular adult-strength, 325-milligram tablet. Neither a baby-strength (81-milligram) aspirin tablet, which many heart patients take on a daily basis, nor a coated aspirin tablet, which is designed to be absorbed slowly, will suffice in the event of a heart attack.