The good folks in Mountain View, California have just updated   Google Translate , creating a fantastic tool  for foreign travelers and an...

If you travel internationally, you know what a hassle it can be to get online without racking up huge roaming charges. Lots of people buy ...

One of the many pleasures of blogging for me has been getting to know my readers, both virtually and in person.  And over the years I...

I just got word that the deadline has been extended five days on this wonderful initiative for young tech businesses in Europe.   On A...

Text translation apps have been around for years: you type in a phrase and your phone, tablet or PC gives it back to you in the writt...

Anytime I come across something I think you might like, I try to find a French connection to justify posting it on my blog. If I can...

Back in the day, when sightseeing or visiting a new city for work, I'd head out in the morning carrying a guidebook, a list of things I...

Have you guys seen this Dior commercial, with Charlize Theron, Greta Garbo, Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe? It was directed by Oscar-winnin...

Yesterday Amazon launched its French Kindle Store with 35,000 French-language book titles to choose from. At the same time,  Amazon unveil...

While you've all been out snipping lavender, drinking ros é , playing boules and being fabulous by the pool, you may have fallen a bit ...

A couple years ago, I wrote about a drive-through boulangerie just outside Paris where you could buy fresh-baked bread from the comfort of ...

Planning any travel? Then check out Hipmunk . It's  a huge improvement over the other popular travel booking sites--a much quicker and m...

If you loved LIFE  like millions of others did, then Life.com might ease your withdrawal. The magazine was a mainstay of American culture,...

Inspired by tilt-shift photography, which plays with depth of field and makes real world scenes appear like miniature models ,  art student ...

Ben Collison and his wife, Alice, moved to France in 2003. Originally from Preston in Northwest England , they now live in Cotignac, in th...

You still have time to see “David Hockney: Fleurs Fraîches,” an exhibit of images (flowers, places and people) created by the British artist...

Now you can dress up your cell phone and all your other electronic devices with reproductions of classic paintings such as Van Gogh’s Starry...

Something I'm asked almost as often as "where should we eat in Provence?" is "what should we do about a cell phone on our...

A cloud-free southern Europe was photographed from space in early March, with Spain (lower left), France (center), Switzerland (upper right)...

Google broke with its longstanding tradition of not advertising its search engine on national television when it ran this attention-grabb...