What seemed cutting-edge a decade ago now collects dust in attics and thrift stores. But here’s the thing—most of us remember these gadgets for their mainstream glory days, not for the quirky, ...

Sometimes newer isn't always better. Between paying for subscriptions for everything and having appliances fall apart after a couple of years, modern inventions can be pretty frustrating. Recently, ...

Hospitals are one of the few industries that still use obsolete communication technologies, such as pagers, and the cumulative effect of relying on those systems costs U.S. hospitals more than $5.15 ...

Rapid technology advances have resulted in radical changes in the products we use in our daily business and personal lives. And, we’re no longer talking about black-and-white TVs or even film cameras.

It has been the same story for storage media as we see newer, faster, and more efficient technologies replace the ones that ...

One of the pressing questions that I have been dealing with lately is that of when it is truly safe to dispose of outdated technology. One of the pressing questions that I have been dealing with ...

Some old-and-busted technologies die gracefully of natural causes. Pagers, PDAs, floppy disks — they’re gone, and good riddance. But other obsolete tech lingers on, even though better alternatives ...

Tom Nardi and I were talking about his trip to the Vintage Computer Festival on the podcast, and he admitted to not having been a retrocomputer aficionado before his first trip. But he ended up keying ...

Apple will no longer repair or service the iPhone 6 Plus phones, which debuted in 2014. And time is running out for the iPad Mini 4. Time marches quickly for just about anyone. But in the technology ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct a surname. We regret the error. Whether AM radio is a dying format will be decided by the market, not Congress ...

Ten years ago, the president of a global restaurant brand dropped a bold statement on me: “Restaurant websites will be obsolete soon.” At the time, I confidently argued that he was incorrect in his ...