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Around the world, mobile phones help rural farmers gather information about crop prices and bargain shoppers download coupons on the fly. If you live outside the U.S., in what innovative ways to you use your cellular phone?

Here's a little twist on Trailer Tuesday: Instead of posting a preview of a big Hollywood movie or cool indie title you get to see an entire movie.

Veterans Issues Activist Rails Against McCain

We have holiday and non-holiday options for your weekend, including a singer-songwriter who goes by The White Buffalo, the Pointsettia display at Balboa Park, and the start of whale-watching season.

Meet a young man who's managed to make classical music popular in Los Angeles: Gustavo Dudamel. Now the 29-year-old Venezuelan conductor known as "the Dude" is taking the L.A. Philharmonic on its first national tour under his direction.

Most Americans are more likely to use credit cards, online banking or even mobile phones to pay the bills, but one check company is hoping to breathe a little life into the ledger.

Apple is launching a new product, widely thought to be a tablet computer, this week. But it would be entering a crowded market. While tablet computers are a small fraction of computer sales, many companies are selling or plan to sell tablets in the near future.

A new generation of young workers is manning China's factories. More informed than their parents about their legal rights, some of them aren't happy with the pay and working conditions, and they've responded with strikes, protests and even suicides. The government is taking notice.

Fans of Amazon.com's Kindle 2 and Sony's Reader say the new digital books are easier to read than earlier generations, with a more "booklike" experience. That's due in part to the technology the e-books use for display — a digital version of ink and paper.

KPBS Border Reporter Amy Isackson tells the story of why one man risked illegal crossings to live and work in San Diego County.