All Things Digital

Free online translation services are in greater demand, but their results can be rife with syntactic and semantic errors — from the merely too-literal to the laughably bad.

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Two no-frills cellphones called the Jitterbug and the Coupe do a good job of handling calls, but some of the Jitterbug’s nonconformist features can be confusing for people familiar with cellphones.

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Two new business-card scanners make it easier than ever to organize those cards piled high on our desks, but their software isn’t as easy to work with when manipulating the scanned images.

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Music-enthusiast site MOG.com allows users to simultaneously blog about and listen to millions of songs that fuel their online discussions.

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A new digital music player called the Slacker plays music that is absolutely free, contained in preprogrammed Internet radio stations instead of individually selected songs and albums. But the device has some glitches.

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Walt Mossberg answers reader questions about merging hard drives, choosing an e-book reader and avoiding spam.

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A Web site called jackcards.com is trying to improve the way people send greeting cards, sending email reminders a month before important dates and shipping pre-stamped, pre-addressed cards to users.

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Amazon’s Kindle makes buying e-books easy, but its hardware design and its software user interface are marred by annoying flaws, Walt Mossberg says.

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Walt answers questions about transferring music to a BlackBerry Pearl, using an external hard drive with Leopard’s Boot Camp and removing unwanted software.

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A thin pad called WildCharge allows users to charge portable devices without a messy tangle of cords and adapters.

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