The NFL doesn't understand its own product. In the high-def age, NFL football games are better to watch at home -- and way cheaper to do so with ticket prices so high. Demanding that fans pack the stands hurts everyone, including the league itself.

Remember Beta vs VHS? Windows vs Mac? Once again, competing global standards are preparing to do battle, this time over smartphones and other mobile devices. A flood of new tablets is coming on a number of platforms, but only two or three are likely to win.

There's a massive doctor shortage coming. One solution: develop artificial intelligence that is as good as a real physician at diagnosis. But even if this is possible, will patients be willing to trust robot doctors with their health?

Video-game console makers see motion-sensing technology -- playing Madden NFL 11 by running around your living room -- as salvation. Sorry, guys: Games on smartphones, social networks and in the cloud are going to eat your lunch.

Lenovo is considering a bid for smartphone maker Palm. But such a move could be risky. Palm is slipping partly because its operating system is caught in a dead zone somewhere between Apple's iPhone and Google's Android.

On March 15, 1985, a computer company in Cambridge, Mass., registered the very first dot-com site. There were six by the end of the year. And 25 years later, a hundred thousand sites are registered every day, and it's hard to remember life without it, 25 years ago.

When Toyota announced its massive recalls, it was making the same strategic mistake that derailed Starbucks and Coach in the past decade: Thinking it could be a "high-fidelity" and a "high-convenience" company at the same time. That's always a dangerous strategy.

Already past the $1 billion box-office mark, the lush sci-fi flick seems to promise a bright future for films. Yet there's a good chance 3-D is nothing more than a Band-Aid. In a few years, it won't seem so special, and it'll no longer be the reason to see a movie.

Sooner or later, politicians will realize that roads are becoming a terrible way to deal with traffic. This is top of mind, because Republican Bob McDonnell just won the Virginia governor's race in part by promising to build roads to unsnarl traffic in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., where...

Consumers constantly make trade-offs between fidelity and convenience, weighing the quality of an experience against the ease of getting that experience. We'll give up some fidelity to get more convenience, or vice versa. And the products that most people gravitate to -- the products that make...